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Live Reviews

Live Review: Roots In The Round – Dean Owens, Kirsten Adamson and Matt Joe Gow, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 11th July 2024

July 16, 2024 Paul Kerr 0
A few years back (2017 in fact) Dean Owens adopted the Nashville tradition of a “singers in the round” night for a tour featuring him, Robert Vincent and The Worry Dolls (reviewed here). He’s revitalised the […]
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Videos

Video: Kirsten Adamson “Take Me As I Am”

September 13, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Throughout Kirsten Adamson’s latest video, a repeated question flashes on the screen: “Does Kirsten have too many feelings?”  This intriguing question is part of the 1980s-style game show that Adamson travels back in time to participate in […]
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Videos

Video: Kirsten Adamson “Without Warning”

May 2, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out ‘Without Warning’, the recent single from Scottish singer-songwriter Kirsten Adamson.  It’s upbeat with a great riff and a stirring guitar solo halfway through.  Adamson’s vocal is finely balanced between fragility and power as she […]
Interviews

Interview: Dean Owens on what his Americana UK awards mean to him

March 1, 2023 Martin Johnson 0
How being force-fed Gram Parson and The Jayhawks opened up the world of americana. Dean Owens has long been a favourite of Americana UK and our readership, and he ended a successful 2022 by being voted […]
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Album Reviews

Kirsten Adamson “Landing Place”

February 21, 2023 John Jenkins 1
Exceptionally good – one to appreciate for many years to come. Kirsten is probably fed up with comparisons to Nanci Griffiths, Emmylou Harris, and similar 80s female singers of the same scene but that should be […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Old Crow Medicine Show

October 7, 2026 0
The Old Crow Medicine Show have been entertaining us throughout the 21st century. Led from the outset by the irrepressible Ketch Secor, they have cycled through some 17 members over that time, including such luminaries of […]
Album Reviews

Dude Cervantes and The Panchos “Billion Dollar Art”

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Dude Cervantes and The Panchos follow up last year’s live record with their second album: a carefully considered studio effort that blends that live energy with focused instrumental and engineering maturity. Billion Dollar Art comes out […]
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Big names combine as Rainbow Body to create environmentally focussed album

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Rainbow Body is a new musical collaboration featuring Taylor Goldsmith and Griff Goldsmith (Dawes), Rick Mitarotonda (Goose), Eric Krasno (Lettuce, Soulive), Ross James (Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band), and Adam MacDougall (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, […]

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Interviews

Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

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The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
Interviews

Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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Album Reviews

Ally Kerr “Upgrade Me” (Much Obliged Records, 2019)

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Album number 4 for Scottish folk/pop singer songwriter Ally Kerr. With debut album ‘Calling Out to You’ released back in 2004 Mr Kerr has been around for a while. It was the success of this album […]
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