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A year down the Tracks

December 22, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
What does a year in the Tracks really mean?  On the one hand running the Tracks feature (and we’re sweeping up all other new music Tracks under that banner) means that there will be a lot […]
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Video: Kyshona “More in Common”

July 8, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
The new video from Kyshona, a performance of ‘More in Common’ recorded live at The Blueroom Studios, is strikingly, disarmingly beautiful. And just as beautiful as the music are Kyshona’s heartfelt words and the themes of […]
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Kyshona “More In Common” – people, that’s us

June 19, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
In the face of the question “What can I do?” former music therapist turned artist-activist Kyshona says, “Listen!” And that was the title of her 2020 album release, which resonated in all sorts of ways in […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Americana Music Association UK Awards, Hackney Church, London, 23rd January 2025

February 14, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
And at last the bad weather had arrived. After a couple of nights at the Evening Music Showcases where there had been a distinct absence of snow or even rain and things had barely been chilly […]
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Kyshona announces new album “Legacy” – collecting stories of black America

March 7, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Nashville-based artist/music therapist/activist Kyshona releases her latest album, ‘Legacy’, on 26th April via Soundly Music.  Kyshona co-produced the record with producer/engineer/mixer Rachael Moore with whom she assembled a team of engineers, musicians, singers, and featured guests […]

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Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

August 6, 2026 0
Here’s the sound of the summer; Marianne is upbeat folk from singer-songwriter Karl Bray. Featuring guitar from Paul Phillips, former member of Pooh Sticks, Marianne opens with a light strum before the song settles into its swaying […]
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2
The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]
Album Reviews

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0
The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

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  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits
  • Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”
  • Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers
  • Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates
  • All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December
  • Live Review: Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes + Riley Catherall, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 25th July 2026
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Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0
Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

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Something for the long weekend: Jason Isbell “Something More Than Free”

August 23, 2024 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a great performance from this week’s Democratic National Convention which you might have seen on the news once or twice. Let’s […]
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Van Plating “Bird On A Wire” – Listen

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First things first – this is not the ‘Bird on a Wire‘ you’re thinking of, it’s a new song that Van Plating co-wrote with Brian Elijah Smith.  Second thing  second – after her re-emergence in 2019 […]
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The Blue Highways + James Hodder + Jamie Freeman + Howard Rose, The Betsey Trotwood, London, 18th & 19th October 2019

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Unusually for what is essentially a brand new band, The Blue Highways played two shows back to back at the Betsey Trotwood in London’s Clerkenwell to celebrate their debut EP which was released back in August. […]

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