Mike Davies

Most songs on Felony Blues deal with reckless life choices, something that Los Angeles-based Jamie Wyatt knows a thing or two about. This is a fine debut, a must have for any contemporary country fan.

Moonshine Freeze, the latest album from This is the Kit, finds John Parish on production duties. The more you listen, the more you hear on this image rich alt-folk offering. Watch her new live session for Hotter Colder.

Josienne Clarke partners with jazz pianist Kit Downes for ‘Such a Sky’. Whether this is a one-off or a prelude to further collaborations remains to be seen, but, for now, just enjoy the propagated fruit from two different but entwined musical orchards.

Sam Baker’s last release was declared one of the 10 best Americana albums of 2013. Working in Nashville for the first time under producer Neilson Hubbard, Land of Doubt should repeat the feat for 2017.

Underhill Rose deliver a live album of their Appalachian-flavoured folk music that’s sure to be in popular demand following their recent tour of the UK & Ireland.

Likened equally to The Travelling Willburys, George Harrison, the Band and Jerry Garcia, Sideways Rain is a 13-track collection of American folk-tinted pop.

Musically tied to the dry and dusty landscape of his adoptive Texas home, Put it Together reinforces Jim Keaveny’s position as one of the most authentic dust bowl Americana artists currently riding the trail.

London-based songer songwriter Nigel Brown returns with Looking For The Rising Sun, his eighth self-released album.

Deservedly likened to All Things Must Pass in its scope and ambition, Brilliant Light is assuredly Danny & The Champions of the World’s masterpiece, an aural aurora borealis that will illuminate your musical life. 

Sarah Jane Scouten is another sterling example of the top grade Americana coming out of Canada as she ably demonstrates on her latest album When The Bloom Falls From The Rose.

With an already solid reputation established on the UK folk festival circuit, Tilly Moses’ new album ‘Alight & Adrift’ should firmly plant her feet on the ladder to the genres upper rungs.

Hannah Aldridge returns with ‘Gold Rush’, a strong second album that is unquestionably one of the best Americana albums of the year,  she’s struck the mother lode.