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Interview: The Delines’ Willy Vlautin on their 2022 Americana UK poll success

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The Delines, a ballad band with a jazz keyboardist, a jazz drummer, and an R&B bassist. The Delines won the Americana UK Album Of The Year 2022 and were runners-up in our readers’ Album Of The […]
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Live Review: UK Americana Music Week. AMAUK UK Showcases, Hackney Venues, 24th & 25th January 2023

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The annual AmericanaFest Showcases organised by the AMA-UK as part of their festival is a highlight of the year. With six venues (Moth Club, Paper Dress Vintage, Night Tales, Oslo, Hackney Social and Hackney Church Brew […]
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Live Review: UK Americana Music Week, Loose Music Takeover @The AMAUK Showcase, Paper Dress Vintage, Hackney, London – 24th January 2023

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Remember live indoor music festivals, the ones that get held in the winter, when it’s raining or snowing outside? January ‘21 and ’22 put paid to these. They got replaced by the online “live” performances that […]
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Video: The Sadies “More Alone”

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With close harmonies, lead guitar that could be straight from a Morricone soundtrack and a wizard walking through an ancient forest, The Sadies blaze a black and white bonfire of a track with the video for […]
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Interview: The Sadies’ Travis Good on the worst year of his life and their best album

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Dallas is still influencing The Sadies and touring is part of the healing process. Twenty-twenty-two should have been a career-high for The Sadies as after over twenty years together they had recorded their best album to […]

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