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Live Review: Michael Weston King, Dan Raza & Michael J Sheehy, The Betsey Trotwood, London – 1st June 2025

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The trio performs After All These Years, A Celebration of the Music of Mickey Newbury. I’ve spent more than 40 years having to explain my love of Mickey Newbury and his music to those who should […]

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Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

March 23, 2026 0

An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

March 23, 2026 0

The last three weeks have been a struggle. The events in the Middle East have been horrific in their scale and scope. These are events of global significance, and if we didn’t know it then, we […]

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 […]

Americana Roots

Americana Roots: The Sweet Lillies

February 12, 2021 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 who […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Driftwood “Up All Night Blues”

February 21, 2024 0

‘Up All Night Blues‘ from Upstate NY-based Americana outfit Driftwood is a 3Am anthem to change, the staring into an unknown future as the old certainties fall away, “Don’t close your eyes / It won’t change a […]

Interviews

Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on East Nashville, Willie Nelson and the New York Dolls

February 19, 2021 0

He is a guitar player with impeccable influences and can channel the best of classic pop to push americana boundaries Throughout the history of most artistic movements, be it music, painting or literature, there has always […]

Live Review: Michael Weston King, Dan Raza & Michael J Sheehy, The Betsey Trotwood, London – 1st June 2025

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”

Video: Jay Buchanan “Sway” – always wanting to do it better