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Live Reviews

Texas Troubadours: Chuck Hawthorne, Libby Koch & Rachel Laven, MacSorleys, Glasgow, 1st August 2017

August 15, 2017 Paul Kerr 0
These three Texan singer/songwriters played their third show of a lengthy UK and Ireland trip throughout August in a handsome Victorian bar in Glasgow. It was a freewheeling night with all three on stage for a […]

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    Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)

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    @paul-villers Those versions keep coming

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    Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive

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More People Really Should Know About: Todd Day Wait

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 231 “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?”

Columns
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Lisa Bouchelle “Make This World Stand Still” – featuring Amanda Shires

Tracks
May 19, 2026 0

Video Premiere: Adrian Roye “Dance of the Keeper” (Live from Dancers End)

Videos
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

Interviews
May 18, 2026 1
Features

More People Really Should Know About: Todd Day Wait

May 19, 2026 0
Americana music has such a wide range. That is one of the most appealing things about the genre. The definition is so difficult, and even as writers, we have had long discussions, mainly in a convenient […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 231 “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?”

May 19, 2026 1
Got back from hols last week and then fail to hit my deadline a week later. Unforgivable… but I do have an excuse. Flimsy one, I grant you, but an excuse nonetheless, and a glorious thing […]
Tracks

Lisa Bouchelle “Make This World Stand Still” – featuring Amanda Shires

May 19, 2026 0
Now, we’re dipping into the postbag, and thank you, Americana UK readers, for being so loyal to the analogue world. We appreciate every handwritten letter, even more so when it has clearly been produced with the […]

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  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 231 “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?”
  • Lisa Bouchelle “Make This World Stand Still” – featuring Amanda Shires
  • Video Premiere: Adrian Roye “Dance of the Keeper” (Live from Dancers End)
  • Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true
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Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]
Interviews

Interview: Daniel Tashian on being a reluctant band leader and the joys of songwriting collaborations

May 14, 2026 0
Daniel Tashian is a legend in Nashville. He’s a deeply respected songwriter, he’s a solo artist with six albums to his name, he’s been in two superb bands, and he’s the go-to guy when you want […]
Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 0
The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]

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Video: Songs From Dan “The Biggest Bastard Who Ever Rode The West”

January 16, 2018 0
This is absolutely lovely. Originally from Australia and resident of the Netherlands since 1993, Dan Tuffy aka Songs From Dan was a founding member of popular psychedelic/folk cult group Wild Pumpkins at Midnight who would later become […]
Interviews

Interview: Courtney Marie Andrews

March 29, 2018 0
If ever there was a brighter star in the ascendancy then Arizona’s Courtney Marie Andrews hasn’t bumped into it yet. Over the last eighteen months the evocative and beguiling songstress has risen to the very summit […]
Videos

Video: James McMurtry “We Can’t Make It Here”

January 4, 2019 0
For the first retro slot of 2019 we go back thirteen years for a powerful live performance by James McMurtry.  Sadly what he sings about is as true now as it was then.

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