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Cambridge Folk Festival announces second list of acts for 2024

March 25, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The  Cambridge Folk Festival has announced its second tranche of acts for the 2024 event, including several names to whet the appetite of fans of Americana. Following their shows with the 2024 Transatlantic Sessions, banjo/ fiddle […]

Reviews

Bluegrass Briefs –The Cleverlys, Nora Brown, Andy Lowe, East Nash Grass, Buster Sledge, Jim Lauderdale

October 2, 2023 Tim Martin 0

The best Americana albums are often a blend of a variety of roots music styles, and sometimes draw in influences from well beyond our little corner of the musical forest. And Bluegrass as we’ve seen in […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman, The Green Note, London – 30th June 2023

July 17, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

The Green Note was presenting a hotly anticipated appearance by the duo of Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman, who have been playing together, on occasions, for at least five years.  Stephanie is a talented fiddle player […]

Tracks

Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman “Lady Of The Lake” – you fill in the Monty Python reference

July 5, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Something truly special for this Wednesday afternoon AUKIBS (that’s the Americana UK Instrumental Bonanza Slot in case you were wondering).  The duo of Nora Brown and Stephanie Coleman have an EP, of which this is the […]

Album Reviews

Nora Brown “Long Time To Be Gone”

August 24, 2022 Paul Gibson 0

Teenage New Yorker’s accomplished album of traditional banjo music. The expectation is that old time music is most authentic when played by true old timers; musicians deep into long lives, living and breathing the hand me […]

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Matt Andersen “The Hammer & The Rose”

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Interview: The Barlow is a band with Workingman’s Cred and High Spirits

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Book Review: Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik “Blood In The Tracks”

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Classic Clips: Tony Joe White “Polk Salad Annie” Austin, 1980

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  • Something(s) for the weekend: Jason McNiff, Tobias Panwitz and The Milk Carton Kids
  • Matt Andersen “The Hammer & The Rose”
  • Interview: The Barlow is a band with Workingman’s Cred and High Spirits
  • Book Review: Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik “Blood In The Tracks”
  • Classic Clips: Tony Joe White “Polk Salad Annie” Austin, 1980
  • I’m With Her “Wild and Clear and Blue”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 185 “Festivals!!”
  • Joe Kelly & The Royal Pharmacy “Cast Me Down”
  • The Minus 5 “Let The Rope Hold, Cassie Lee” – carry that thread forward
  • Video: Hannah Rose Platt “Young Men Need Their Wives”
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  • Paul Higham: Sums it up perfectly for us,, with Ramblin’ Roots being our favoured model, particularly with a National Trust scone being…
  • Fiona Golden: Thanks Alasdair! I only listened to Who By Fire back when it was released and didn't really connect with it,…
  • Lyndon Bolton: Thanks Rick and those bootlegs are something to behold. Perhaps one for an 'Essentials' piece?

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Interview: The Barlow is a band with Workingman’s Cred and High Spirits

May 16, 2025 0

The Barlow is a band in high spirits these days with a brand-new album, their fourth, that’s worth some serious fist-bumping. The band calls their brand of music Colorado Country, and it’s as rugged as the […]

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Interview: Vanessa Collier Does It Her own Way

April 29, 2025 0

Be daring, be yourself, be willing to take risks and stand alone. Vanessa Collier’s music is gritty, raw, and at times, either downright sad or bubbling happy. As with most songwriters worth their salt, her songs […]

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Interview: Angela Easterling on her music, her kids and her grandpa’s farm

April 9, 2025 0

“All of a sudden, time stood still, and we watched our plans and expectations float away like lost balloons.” For Angela Easterling, life began in South Carolina and, except for college years in Boston, has been […]

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Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 48

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 34

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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