Maz O’Connor

Video Premiere: Maz O’Connor “Loved Me Better”

January 29, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Described by The Guardian as: ‘One of folk’s brightest young talents,’ Maz O’Connor has been building on the success of her debut, 2016’s ‘The Longing Kind’, touring with the likes of Rosanne Cash and working […]

Americana Roots: Pixie & the Partygrass Boys

Americana Roots

December 18, 2020 0

Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US. It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts [...]

Americana Roots: Grayson Capps

Americana Roots

December 4, 2020 1

American Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US. It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts [...]

Americana Roots

Americana Roots: Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

November 20, 2020 0

Americana Roots

Americana Roots: Old Town Flood

October 16, 2020 0

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Americana Roots: Tenth Mountain Division

October 2, 2020 0

Interview: Dean Owens on hooking up with Calexico and beating the lockdown blues

Interviews

January 26, 2021 0

Edinburgh’s Dean Owens kicks off the New Year with a Celtic Connections showcase followed by an ambitious schedule of releases recorded with Tucson’s Calexico At the beginning of 2020, the year looked promising for Dean […]

TJ Roberts “Love, Loss & Other Useless Things”

Album Reviews

January 26, 2021 0

Thoroughly competent guitar-driven indie-pop from a fast developing band. TJ Roberts has undergone quite a transition in a short time since 2019’s ‘Best New Reissue’. That debut album was essentially a solo project, whereas their […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: The Band “Rag Mama Rag”

Other stuff

January 26, 2021 0

Following on from last week’s ‘Mama’ theme, here is one of my favourite Band tracks. It exemplifies the sort of raucous almost ramshackle sound at which they excelled and which proves irresistible. Not the best […]

Taco Tapes “Trad is Rad”

Album Reviews

January 26, 2021 0

Album delivers an old-time traditional feel drawing on songs a century apart It’s always difficult to predict what will drop through the digital letterbox into the metaphorical arms of an Americana UK reviewer. Therein lies […]

What is Americana?

Features

January 26, 2021 0

Sorry to say, dear friends, that we’re not going to answer this question here. However, we’ve teamed up with Country In The UK to pose this question to a few UK acts in the week […]

Video Premiere: Maz O’Connor “Loved Me Better”

Interview: Dean Owens on hooking up with Calexico and beating the lockdown blues

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