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Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Lutterworth – 22nd-24th August 2025

September 25, 2025 David Jarman 0

My preview of a couple of weeks back noted that the Long Road Festival is an annual fixture in my diary, and this year‘s line-up promised much. The festival now boasts six stages – adding the […]

Review – Black Deer Festival 2024: Guaranteed musical brilliance

July 8, 2024 Andrew Frolish 3

In June, Black Deer Festival returned for its fifth edition although it feels as though it has been around forever. It has quickly become synonymous with the very best of Americana, finding an enticing balance between […]

Album cover artwork for Seasick Steve's "A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees"

Seasick Steve “A Trip A Stumble A Fall Down On Your Knees”

June 21, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

The blues fused with other genres to very good effect. Just over halfway through this, Seasick Steve’s fourteenth album, comes the track ‘Funky Music’ with the words “The blues been calling me/ All of my life/ […]

Dream Team Triple Header – Suzanne Vega, Billy Bragg, Seasick Steve

March 9, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Oh, Songkick, you’re really treating us this time with your semi-random email header denoting a wondrous triple header of a gig that isn’t actually going to happen. But what if it did? How would the Queen […]

Cambridge Folk Festival reveals full line up for next weekend

July 21, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Cambridge Folk Festival have announced the full lineup and day splits ahead of next week’s event. Headliners include Gipsy Kings, Passenger, Seasick Steve, Show of Hands, and Suzanne Vega. Americana newcomers Elles Bailey, Ferris and Sylvester, […]

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Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

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“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

Ramsey Thornton “I Called It!”

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Oklahoman Ramsey Thornton’s debut album explores the liminal space between action and inertia against a mellifluous musical background. Ramsey Thornton’s I Called It! is an album preoccupied with the moments where something should happen but doesn’t. […]

France’s Eldorado festival brings americana stars to NW France in late June

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After a first promising edition in September 2024, the one and only americana Fest in France, Eldorado, returns to the village of Vancé in NW France (close to Le Mans) with its second edition on 26th […]

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