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Jingle Bells Friday – I want to see the bright Xmas lights tonight

December 5, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

And now the sweating starts, the raised heartbeat rate, the stark all all-encompassing, totally overwhelming fear…yes, there are less than three weeks to go to the Big Day. How does this happen every single year? Or, […]

Mince Pie Mondays – are these vegan?

December 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

What’s going on? Isn’t Mince Pie Mondays a bit like Solstice Songs Thursdays, a last-minute attempt to use up the late-arriving seasonal songs so no one feels like the child that Santa forgot? A sort of […]

Jingle Bells Friday – all is quiet, is it the lull before the storm?

December 9, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

As promised we’re taking a more holistic approach to the season this week, digging into our folkier offerings. There may be wooden music ahead. It’s a softness that sometimes hides darker thoughts, a bit like the […]

Jingle Bell Friday – what, we stayed up all night and still didn’t get a delivery slot?

November 26, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

As the days shorten and the temperature drops their are two inevitable consequences – an increase in household carbon footprints as the heating goes on and the return of Americana UK’s beloved special Tracks feature Jingle […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers