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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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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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”

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Album Reviews

Chantelle Tibbs “Long Time Running” (Mira Records, 2017)

April 12, 2017 0

Chantelle Tibbs’ musical tastes cover her first musical experience, that of singing in an R&B group, pop music and a fondness for bluegrass and Americana. Born in Vineyard, New Jersey and later relocating with her family […]

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Matthew Robb “Dead Men Have No Dreams” (Independent, 2019)

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Confronting gritty politics and softer periods of reflection and love, Matthew Robb’s second album, ‘Dead Men Have No Dreams’, will bring pleasure to fans of poetic lyricism. Competing with our good friend Bob for the title […]

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

Video: Kirsten Adamson “Take Me As I Am”

Video: Kirsten Adamson “Without Warning”

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

Kirsten Adamson “Landing Place”

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”