JP Harris

Live Review: JP Harris + Jack Browning, The Lexington, London, 3rd June 2025

June 20, 2025 Jonathan Aird 2

The Lexington welcomed JP Harris back with his full band in tow, ready to give an evening of rocking country tunes in styles that predate the big-hat, big-arena styles of the Eighties. There would be honky-tonk, […]

Artwork for JP Harris album "JP Harris is a Trash Fire"

JP Harris “JP Harris is a Trash Fire”

November 21, 2024 Peter Thompson 2

Tremendous country record from handyman with a banjo, JP Harris. As backstories go, the JP Harris version is right up there. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, his family moved to Apple, California when he was seven years […]

AmericanaFest, Nashville, September 10th-15th, 2019

October 11, 2019 Mark Underwood 0

For Americana UK, this year’s Nashville experience ended where it pretty much started – at Robert’s Western World on Lower Broadway. Hotfoot from arriving in the city around 7pm our assembled scribes headed straight downtown to […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Michael Colton “Leave The Light On”

August 13, 2020 0

Today’s song is the upcoming new single from Michael Colton, which will be generally available from tomorrow and precedes an upcoming EP which will be released this Autumn. ‘Leave the Light On‘ is a ballad which […]

Album Reviews

Eve Adams “American Dust”

September 10, 2025 0

An exploration of the solitude of the Californian desert, Eve Adams looks for answers in the dust of the “middle of nowhere”. “American Dust’” follows Eve Adams’ 2022 release of her “Metal Bird”, but steps away […]

Album Reviews

Paul Kelly “Life is Fine” (Gawd Aggie/Cooking Vinyl 2017)

September 12, 2017 0

‘Life is Fine’ as in ‘hanging by a thread’ rather than ‘great’, is a powerful return by Aussie songwriting royalty Paul Kelly. The Australian singer-songwriter is so pleased with it that he is about to embark […]

Live Review: JP Harris + Jack Browning, The Lexington, London, 3rd June 2025

JP Harris “JP Harris is a Trash Fire”

AmericanaFest, Nashville, September 10th-15th, 2019

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”