Slide guitar and harmonica-playing blues veteran Bill “Watermelon Slim” Homans wowed the Black Deer crowd with a cracking set of livewire blues. “I’m an old guy who used to drive trucks for a living and it’s a pleasure to come over to play for you guys.” Backed by […]
“How much damage can we do in a gigantic field?” asked Ben Nichols, frontman of Tennessee rockers Lucero, after recognising some faces in the crowd. “Enough” he joked. BOON reviewed Lucero six months ago and the crowd was lively then to say the least. The Black Deer faithful […]
Traditional American blues came to Black Deer in the form of multi-instrumentalist and inuendo raconteur Jerron ‘Blind Boy’ Paxton. Paxton is a talented young man keeping the songs of his heritage alive, playing ragtime, blues, reels and zydeco songs. “My name is Jerron and I’m from South Central […]
Since the first ever Black Deer Festival that took place in June this year at Eridge Deer Park in Kent, festival attendees and artists haven’t stopped talking about how amazing the Americana and Country filled three day event was and those who didn’t go couldn’t wait to go […]
We have been to some amazing festivals this year and really wish we could have been to more. With country music being on the rise in the UK we are seeing more and more country acts being added to all-genre festivals and not just those of sole genre. […]
British vocal group The Wandering Hearts have barely had a day off since they hit the scene back in 2017. Releasing EP Burning Bridges, debut album Wild Silence and playing just about every UK festival there is, it is safe to say that Tim, AJ, Chess and Tara’s […]
Striking Matches made their much anticipated return in June this year including their very first UK Festival Headline slot at the first ever Black Deer Festival. The guitar heavy vocal duo recently released their EP Shameless that takes them in a more electric guitar direction rather than the […]
Americana Singer/Songwriter Jarrod Dickenson from Texas has become quite the UK favourite. Having toured here for a number of years now, his audience just keeps growing and growing and it isn’t hard to see why. Whilst categorised as Americana/Country, Jarrod offers so much more within his music such as […]
From the moment we arrived at Black Deer Festival on Friday afternoon the excitement kicked in. Large banners with the line up were displayed on the roads entrance and as you drove into the grounds you were greeted by large flags with the Black Deer logo which showed […]
Jarrod Dickenson was one artist on the Black Deer Festival line up that I had heard most people were looking forward to seeing and after seeing his set, I completely understood why. Jarrod is one of those artists that make you think “Why isn’t this guy one of […]
Building Our Own Nashville 