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Live Review: Desire Reimagined, Dingwalls, London – 3rd June 2026

June 16, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
What a prospect on a night brooding with potential for rain, but also with the potential to hear one of Dylan’s most iconic albums played all the way through and in the right order. This celebration […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”

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Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”

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Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”

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Oil & Whiskey Musical, The Old Red Lion & Playhouse - 3rd September 2026

Live Review: Oil & Whiskey, The Old Red Lion & Playhouse, London – 3rd September 2026

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Elaine Palmer announces Autumn UK tour

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For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”

September 14, 2026 1
This surreal cut from Bob Dylan’s 1978 album Street-Legal can be interpreted in many ways. Dylan himself has offered many different explanations of the song’s intricate lyrics, often contradicting his earlier descriptions. Whatever the story, or […]
Tracks

Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”

September 14, 2026 0
Standing Stones – enigmatic traces of the long past dwellers in these lands.  People with their own culture, their own way of looking at the world – and even though they are long gone these remaining […]
Album Reviews

Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”

September 14, 2026 0
An album which leads from a concept rooted in despair which ends as hopeful observations of life and its shifts. Margo Cilker says of her third album; “You could definitely call it a concept record.” Recorded […]

  • For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”
  • Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”
  • Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”
  • Live Review: Oil & Whiskey, The Old Red Lion & Playhouse, London – 3rd September 2026
  • Elaine Palmer announces Autumn UK tour
  • Ewan Macintyre & Herding Cats “On These Islands We Sing”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 252 “Emotions… funny things”
  • Track Premiere: Paula Fong “What Are We Running From”
  • Video Premiere: Rachel Swain “Ghost”
  • Something for the weekend: This is Lorelei “The Kid with the Crown”
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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
Interviews

Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 1
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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Laura Veirs “Laura Veirs and the Choir Who Couldn’t Say (Live In Angoulême)”

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This collaboration between Laura Veirs and a French school choir offers a different perspective on songs from Veirs’ back catalogue. Don’t you just love an album with a fascinating back story? Well, this album has one […]
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Andrew Hibbard “Andrew Hibbard” (Sofaburn Records 2020)

May 29, 2020 0
This self-titled offering is Andrew Hibbard’s third album, following on from ‘Foot in the Door’ from 2012 and ‘Under the Knife’ from 2015.  The first was made when he was 17 so we can assume that he […]
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Sounds of the New West Volume 5 out with new Uncut

January 15, 2020 0
For those of us who have been around long enough, you’ll remember that way back in the sands of time, two decades ago in fact, Uncut had a cover-mounted CD called Sounds of the New West […]

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