Joe Martin embarks on his UK tour to promote his debut album 'Empty Passenger Seat', a project that has been years in the making. Billed as a night of ‘New wave Americana, with stories and songs that will move the deepest parts of your soul’. Over the years, Joe has been bringing his vision of...
Award winning, US singer songwriter Diana Jones is known for her gritty, literary, Appalachian influenced songs. Adopted as an infant and raised in Long Island, NY, the fact that Diana couldn’t get enough of her brother’s Johnny Cash records finally made sense when she found her birth family and musical roots in the Smoky Mountains...
Country singer Laura Cantrell has balanced different aspects of her music life over the course of a 20-plus years career, whether as a recording artist, radio host, writer, or working parent of a high-school aged musician. Well-known as a recording artist with a devoted following in the US and UK, Laura has expressed her passion...
Americana/Alt-Country songwriter Karen Jonas knows how to tell a story. Her new album The Restless (3.3) is “a stunning collection of dreamy and dark alt-country confessionals; a deep exploration of love and vulnerability from one of Americana’s most hopeless romantics” (Holler.Country). With “vocals that twist and snap with tension and emotional depth” and a dynamic...
Over twenty-three years, thirteen albums, three published books and thousands of shows Rod Picott has worked; powered by the fuel of the blue-collar world he was born into. Through white-knuckled determination Picott has been fortunate to open for Alison Krauss and Union Station, play the Shrewsbury Folk Festival, appear several times on the BBC2 Bob...
OK then, let’s call it Americana. There was a time when it was nameless…just the good stuff to those in the know and when Geraint Watkins first started playing in bands like Red Beans and Rice and Juice on the Loose, they were like transatlantic railroad trains loaded with it rolling around the country. He...
Hannah Aldridge grew up on the muddy banks of Muscle Shoals - her birthright is music and Alabama. A reckoning between her coming-of-age in the South and a lifetime of trying to create an identity outside of it, her songs strike a delicate balance between rebellion and self-discovery. These two themes weave through Aldridge's gifted...
Nashville singer-songwriter Kevin Montgomery returns to Bristol's Hen and Chicken. Expect an intimate evening of music and laughs. The legendary Jude Johnstone will open the show. Montgomery’s mom sang with Elvis and Dad wrote songs like “Heartbeat” for Buddy Holly, and was his first musical partner. Montgomery has written songs for Juice Newton, Martina McBride, Beth...
Dan Stuart aka Marlowe Billings returns to the UK featuring songs from across his solo and Green on Red catalogue and a very brief reading from his third and latest novel Marlowe’s Revenge along with stories of his time with Green on Red. Green on Red will be releasing the first volume of their back...
Named as one of RnR Magazines 'Ones to watch for 2022', emerging artist Jenny Colquitt encompasses a unique combination of Americana, indie, and folk rock and pop. Winner of the 2021/2022 FATEA 'Female Artist of the Year' award and the 2020/2021 GSMC Award for best female solo singer/songwriter, Jenny's music is described as fit for...
Channelling the sounds of The Byrds, Big Star and The Flying Burrito Brothers, as well as hints of Mojave 3 and The Allah Las, The Hanging Stars mainline the dying embers of the early 70s psychedelic folk and cosmic country scenes. The band is comprised of songwriter, singer and guitarist Richard Olson, Sam Ferman on...
“Doing it the hard way for 20 years,” is a badge Elliott BROOD wear with honour. Two decades on, work, life, and love have taken the trio in many directions, away from their hometowns and headfirst into an ongoing musical journey through distance and time. Now, after being members of this band for nearly half...
