The Delines

Live Review: The Delines + Freddy Trujillo, Junction 2 Cambridge – 12th June 2024

June 24, 2024 Jonathan Aird 2

The Delines are, of course, widely popular with the readership (and writers!) of Americana UK so it should come as little or no surprise to hear that the band’s appearance at Cambridge’s Junction 2 venue was […]

Interview: Willy Vlautin on novels, songwriting, guitars, and horses

June 21, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Willy Vlautin was at home just outside Portland Oregon when we spoke with him. Having just completed a tour supporting his latest novel ‘The Horse’ and preparing to come back for a short tour with the […]

Live Review: The Delines + Freddy Trujillo, Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth – 15th June 2024

June 21, 2024 Tim Martin 0

This was the final date of a brief tour, built around an appearance at Black Deer Festival the previous day. With only five shows the band were very much in “lets have fun with it” mode. […]

Video Interview: Freddy Trujillo on “I Never Threw a Shadow at It” and touring the UK

June 6, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

Celebrating a family history that predates California’s annexation by America and Chicano rock. Thirty years of playing bass with Richmond Fontaine and the Delines means that Freddy Trujillo has been on his own musical journey that […]

Book Review: Willy Vlautin “The Horse”

May 30, 2024 Andy Davidson 0

On Richmond Fontaine’s 2016 ‘You Cant Go Back if There’s Nothing to Go Back To’, the album cover has a solitary, decrepit horse, standing forlornly in a landscape offering little comfort. It is a moribund picture but […]

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0

Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]

Artwork for Sailing Sones album "Slow Magic"

Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

July 21, 2026 0

Absorbing collection of songs that subtly reveal the quiet joys of motherhood. The first sound that emerges from the new Sailing Stones album, Slow Magic, is the metronomic rhythm of a baby’s heartbeat with its gentle […]

More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

July 21, 2026 0

If you’ve ever found yourself searching for music that offers comfort without pretending life is easy, then you should know Travis Shallow. He writes songs that acknowledge the darkness but never surrender to it, and he […]

Live Review: The Delines + Freddy Trujillo, Junction 2 Cambridge – 12th June 2024

Interview: Willy Vlautin on novels, songwriting, guitars, and horses

Live Review: The Delines + Freddy Trujillo, Wedgewood Rooms Portsmouth – 15th June 2024

Video Interview: Freddy Trujillo on “I Never Threw a Shadow at It” and touring the UK

Book Review: Willy Vlautin “The Horse”

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

Sailing Stones “Slow Magic”

More People Really Should Know About: Travis Shallow

Live Review: Jerry Joseph and the Jackmormons + Red Hash + Ella Spencer, Water Rats, London – 8th July 2026

Martin Carthy “Along the Road Forever – Live at the BBC”