The Blue Highways

The Black Feathers, live, (THL) Festival, 16/7/23

Live Review: The (THL) Festival, Kirton in Lindsey, North Lincolnshire – 16th July 2023

July 24, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

The lyrics, “Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, if the sun don’t come you get a tan from standing in the English rain,” by some small band from Liverpool with an uncanny understanding […]

Live Preview: The (THL) Festival, Klassic Park, Kirton – 16th July 2023

July 6, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

Sunday 16th July sees the return of The (THL) Festival, a one-day music event held at The Klassic Park at Kirton in Lindsey in North Lincolnshire which last year saw such Americana luminaries as Hannah Aldridge […]

Interview: The Blue Highways’ Callum Lury on meeting the difficult second album challenge

July 4, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Springsteen may cast his shadow, but girl pop singers also provide inspiration. Regular readers of Americana UK, and most fans of americana, will be aware of the sometimes debates about what does and doesn’t constitute americana, […]

The Blue Highways “Out On The Line”

February 24, 2023 Peter Churchill 0

Second album continues The Blue Highways’ upward trajectory. A delve back through the Americana UK archives reveals a common theme when it comes to The Blue Highways. From their 2020 debut through a subsequent EP release, […]

Track Premiere: The Blue Highways “Out On The Line”

January 26, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

The Blue Highways are North London’s latest purveyors of alt-rock – it’s a family band based around the musical partnership of singer Callum Lury with his brothers lead guitarist Jack and drummer Theo. ‘Out On The Line‘ is […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Videos

Video: Ben Brown “Blue”

July 16, 2024 0

Enjoy the new single from Manningtree-based singer-songwriter Ben Brown. Quite simply, this song – and the way Brown performs it – is joyful. Upbeat and catchy, ‘Blue’ will bring a smile to your face. Brown’s vocal […]

Album Reviews

Ken Pomeroy “Christmas Lights in April”

December 20, 2021 0

Sweet voiced third album release from Oklahoma-based 19 year old Cherokee singer-songwriter Pomeroy. Although only 19 years old, ‘Christmas Lights in April’ is the third album release from Cherokee singer-songwriter Ken Pomeroy, hailing from Moore, Oklahoma. […]

Videos

Video: Steve Louw “Streets of Rain”

August 21, 2024 0

South African songsmith Steve Louw meditates on pain and hope with his new video for ‘Streets of Rain’. The track, featuring Hammond organ phenom Lachy Doley, is quiet and contemplative matched with the video’s gorgeous black […]

Live Review: The (THL) Festival, Kirton in Lindsey, North Lincolnshire – 16th July 2023

Live Preview: The (THL) Festival, Klassic Park, Kirton – 16th July 2023

Interview: The Blue Highways’ Callum Lury on meeting the difficult second album challenge

The Blue Highways “Out On The Line”

Track Premiere: The Blue Highways “Out On The Line”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”