The Sam Chase Trio

Live Review: The Sam Chase Trio + Ella Spencer, Sudbury Arts Centre, St Peter’s Church, Sudbury – 18th October 2024

October 24, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Early in his set at the Sudbury Arts Centre, Sam Chase looked around him, at the dramatic interior of the converted church, and said, “I feel like we should be whispering right now…I worship the arts. […]

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 […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: The Sam Chase Trio “John Prine”, Grass Valley, 2021

September 26, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

In last week’s Chain Gang, we saw the glorious afternoon in Glasgow when Billy Bragg, Cara Tivey and Michael Stipe performed a cover of ‘Hello in There’ by the legendary John Prine. The next link in […]

Live Review: Friday Night at Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 1st July 2022

July 14, 2022 Andrew Frolish 3

Festival season continues and, having barely recovered from Black Deer, it was time to bask in the late-evening sunshine at Easton Farm Park. Since 2008, Maverick Festival has been celebrating some of the finest Americana and […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers