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Live Reviews

Live Review: Boia Festival, St Davids, Pembrokeshire – 23rd-25th October 2025

November 5, 2025 Oliver Gray 2
One thing you can always rely on at Boia is shocking weather. Does it matter? Not a jot, because as the wind howls and the rain batters, you are safely inside the range of super venues […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 206 “Boia”

October 24, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
This is the last time I mention Black Deer, I promise, but when the news came through of the cancellation, I took decisive action (a first for me). I had known that a rather marvellous festival […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”

Features
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Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”

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Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”

Album Reviews
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Oil & Whiskey Musical, The Old Red Lion & Playhouse - 3rd September 2026

Live Review: Oil & Whiskey, The Old Red Lion & Playhouse, London – 3rd September 2026

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Elaine Palmer announces Autumn UK tour

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Features

For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”

September 14, 2026 1
This surreal cut from Bob Dylan’s 1978 album Street-Legal can be interpreted in many ways. Dylan himself has offered many different explanations of the song’s intricate lyrics, often contradicting his earlier descriptions. Whatever the story, or […]
Tracks

Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”

September 14, 2026 0
Standing Stones – enigmatic traces of the long past dwellers in these lands.  People with their own culture, their own way of looking at the world – and even though they are long gone these remaining […]
Album Reviews

Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”

September 14, 2026 0
An album which leads from a concept rooted in despair which ends as hopeful observations of life and its shifts. Margo Cilker says of her third album; “You could definitely call it a concept record.” Recorded […]

  • For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”
  • Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”
  • Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”
  • Live Review: Oil & Whiskey, The Old Red Lion & Playhouse, London – 3rd September 2026
  • Elaine Palmer announces Autumn UK tour
  • Ewan Macintyre & Herding Cats “On These Islands We Sing”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 252 “Emotions… funny things”
  • Track Premiere: Paula Fong “What Are We Running From”
  • Video Premiere: Rachel Swain “Ghost”
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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
Interviews

Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 1
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]
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The Sheepdogs have the UK in their sights… in November and December 2026!

November 20, 2025 0
Multi-platinum, four-time JUNO Award-winning Canadian rock band The Sheepdogs announce their return to the UK and Europe in November and December 2026 for the “Out All Night Tour”. The band kick off in Glasgow on 11 […]
Album Reviews

The Orphan Brigade “To The Edge Of The World” (Independent, 2019)

October 4, 2019 1
The Orphan Brigade make location albums. The first in a haunted Kentucky mansion, the second in medieval Italian caves. Now comes the third, written and recorded on the wild Co. Antrim coast in Northern Ireland. This […]

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