Robert Jon and The Wreck

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Robert Jon & The Wreck “Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes”

September 29, 2025 Andy Short 0

Californian rockers return with a set of songs rooted in the Deep South. Hailing from Southern California, Robert Jon & The Wreck have their feet firmly on the ground in the east beyond the red clay […]

Video: Robert Jon and The Wreck “Dragging Me Down”

May 3, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Southern rock from Southern California? Yes! Robert Jon and The Wreck, wreak rootsy havoc in the latest single ‘Dragging Me Down’. With a sound that conjures Chris Stapleton singing for The Rival Sons, the band is […]

Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates

July 17, 2026 0

Jawdropped, a four-piece from Los Angeles, have announced their debut album, Secret To Spare, due 18th September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback. The band has also released the first single, Split Lip, along with a video […]

Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking

July 17, 2026 0

We’ve been lucky enough here at Americana UK to have been aware of Anna Tivel and her astonishing songwriting pretty much from her emergence into the folk/singer-songwriter/americana combined genres. We haven’t been shy with our praise […]

Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”

July 17, 2026 0

When Dennis McNally published A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead in 2002, he had an almost impossible task. It needed to document a band whose history was already wrapped in layers […]

Interviews

Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0

Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]

Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0

Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]

Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1

Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

Album Reviews

Israel Nash “Lifted” (Loose, 2018)

October 12, 2018 0

This is Big Music. It’s all about the production, which seems to have everything, with bells on – figuratively on ‘Northwest Stars (Out of Tacoma)’. Kitchen sink isn’t actually listed as an instrument, but if it […]

Features

Do you like Good Music ? A year in review

December 20, 2017 0

There’s an inevitability that December brings some reflection on what has gone before, there’s this midwinter pause that offers an opportunity for this stocktaking. And this is a personal reflection – there’s some “best ofs”” down […]

Album Reviews

Syrah Morrison “The Road”

January 22, 2024 0

Impressive and sophisticated first album from Spain’s deep south. The Americana community reaches from Alabama to Alaska and from Australia to Andalusia. Andalusia? The last of these may not spring immediately to mind alongside such established […]

Robert Jon and The Wreck

Robert Jon & The Wreck “Heartbreaks & Last Goodbyes”

Video: Robert Jon and The Wreck “Dragging Me Down”

Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates

Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking

Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”

Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

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