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Preview: Danny George Wilson launches new album with May tour supporting The Handsome Family

March 2, 2026 0

Danny George Wilson’s latest record, Arcade, has already been previewed in these pages and now Wilson has announced a series of UK tour dates supporting The Handsome family to promote it. For Arcade, Wilson returned to Hamish […]

Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

March 2, 2026 0

Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]

Ryan Bingham releases first album in seven years in May

March 2, 2026 1

Oscar and Grammy-winning musician Ryan Bingham will release They Call Us The Lucky Ones, his new album with The Texas Gentlemen, on 15th May 2026 via The Bingham Recording Co./Thirty Tigers. It is his first full-length […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 223 “Artificial Intelligence”

March 2, 2026 0

I decided to approach this hot-button topic this week after watching Hannah Fry on the telly presenting the first in a series of programmes wherein, as a tech-loving person, she hoped to demystify and broaden the […]

Big Harp “I Got An Itch” – it’s the decade one

March 2, 2026 0

Big Harp put out their first album fifteen years ago, and it’s over a decade since their third, and what was looking increasingly like their final album Waveless. The appearance of today’s track serves to undo […]

Features
For the Sake of the Song: Justin Townes Earle “Harlem River Blues”
Justin Townes Earle stands tall in the pantheon of singer-songwriters in the americana theatre. The son of one of the most universally acclaimed exponents of the genre (Steve Earle) and named after another (Townes van [...]
Interviews
Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music
Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, [...]
Features
The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: Andrew Frolish
As ever, with features of this type, a great deal more time was spent reflecting, taking notes and re-listening to a huge number of great songs than was actually spent on the writing. Like most [...]
Interviews
Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll
I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped [...]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Bobbie Gentry “The Delta Sweete”
Another in our series of occasional Features looks at one of the great unsung albums of the 60s. After the fanfare of recording a #1 hit single in Ode to Billy Joe, in 1968 Bobbie [...]

Video: Natalie Del Carmen “El Cortez” – the tallest glass of water in town

March 2, 2026 0

Natalie Del Carmen’s El Cortez is about gambling with her father at the El Cortez casino in Las Vegas. However, it’s about much more than that: it was inspired by the realisation that, even as an […]

Something for the weekend: Rodney Crowell featuring Emmylou Harris and Lera Lynn “Go Light a Candle”

February 27, 2026 5

Well that’s it from us for this week on a day which a friend of mine said to me this morning feels like Christmas following the Greens’ by-election win in Gorton and Denton. Who knew that […]

Praise be! Kevin Morby announces new album and UK dates

February 27, 2026 0

Kevin Morby has announced his eighth studio album, Little Wide Open, will come out on 15th May via Dead Oceans. The album was produced by Aaron Dessner, and the single Javelin is out now. Additionally, Morby […]

The Long Road adds new acts to 2026 bill including Emmylou Harris, Steve Earle, Jim Lauderdale, Felice Brothers

February 27, 2026 0

The UK’s largest outdoor country, americana and roots festival, The Long Road, is returning for a seventh year on the August 2026 Bank Holiday weekend (27th to 30th August). The festival, which takes place in the […]

Latest Podcast now available featuring Rupert Orton from PRB Presents talking Red Rooster and more

February 27, 2026 0

This week’s podcast features an interview with Rupert Orton of PRB Presents, who not only programmes loads of americana shows around the UK and EU but also is lead booker for the Red Rooster Festival that […]

Big Harp “I Got An Itch” – it’s the decade one
March 2, 2026 0
Big Harp put out their first album fifteen years ago, and it’s over a decade since their third, and what was looking increasingly like their final album Waveless. The appearance of today’s track serves to [...]
Video: Natalie Del Carmen “El Cortez” – the tallest glass of water in town
March 2, 2026 0
Natalie Del Carmen’s El Cortez is about gambling with her father at the El Cortez casino in Las Vegas. However, it’s about much more than that: it was inspired by the realisation that, even as [...]
Something for the weekend: Rodney Crowell featuring Emmylou Harris and Lera Lynn “Go Light a Candle”
February 27, 2026 5
Well that’s it from us for this week on a day which a friend of mine said to me this morning feels like Christmas following the Greens’ by-election win in Gorton and Denton. Who knew [...]
Track Premiere: P.J. M Bond “Ponderosa Pine”
February 27, 2026 0
We’re very happy to offer an early listen to today’s premiere – Ponderosa Pine is the second single by Dutch singer-songwriter P.J.M. Bond off his new album Coyote (King of the Island). It’s one of [...]
Video: Effie Zilch “Evergreen”
February 27, 2026 0
It’s time to get moving with Evergreen, the latest single from Bay Area duo Effie Zilch, comprised of GRAMMY-winning producer and guitarist Steve Wyreman and guitarist and singer Evanne Barcenas. In this immediately-engaging single, Barcenas [...]

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