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Americana 25 is only weeks away now – pre-order your festival merch here!

October 16, 2026 0

Grab your festival t-shirt and hat now for collection on the day. Here at AUK Towers, we naturally shy away from the grasping maw of capitalism, but occasionally, in exceptional circumstances, we must face up to […]

Paperback Riders: Chris Hillman “Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond”

October 16, 2026 0

Some musicians write memoirs to settle scores. Others write them to inflate their legend. Chris Hillman, who has spent most of his career standing slightly to one side of the spotlight, seems to have gone for […]

The Lone Bellow live at Kendal Library - 8th March 2026

Classic Clips: The Lone Bellow “Green Eyes and a Heart of Gold” – Live at Paradise Rock Club, Boston, Massachusetts, 2013

October 16, 2026 0

Zach Williams, Kanene Donehey Pipkin and Brian Elmquist, collectively The Lone Bellow, came into being when Georgia natives, long-time friends Zach Williams and Brian Elmquist, got together in Brooklyn; Williams having moved to New York City […]

Live Review: Lush Fest with Essence Martins, Beans on Toast & Clara Pople, Lush Spa Oxford Street, London – 7th October 2026

October 16, 2026 0

Well, this is a bit different from the usual gig experience, and definitely a new venue: the launch of the latest LUSH album, Best Day Of All Time, was at its Oxford Street premiere store, with […]

The latest Americana UK podcast now available featuring Steve Wynn and Small Town Jones

October 16, 2026 0

Keith’s back from down under with the podcast firing with both barrels, featuring, as it does two interviews with artists taking part in Americana 25. First up, the wonderful Steve Wynn, talking about new stuff and […]

Classic Clips
Classic Clips: The Lone Bellow “Green Eyes and a Heart of Gold” – Live at Paradise Rock Club, Boston, Massachusetts, 2013
Zach Williams, Kanene Donehey Pipkin and Brian Elmquist, collectively The Lone Bellow, came into being when Georgia natives, long-time friends Zach Williams and Brian Elmquist, got together in Brooklyn; Williams having moved to New York [...]
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter is one of those artists who sets the bar very high when it comes to recorded output. Not for her the experimental path of, say, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music or Neil [...]
Anniversary Cheers
Anniversary Cheers: Dave Alvin “Blackjack David” celebrates 28 years
Dave Alvin’s Blackjack David, one of the great americana albums and now with added tracks, gets the Craft Recordings treatment. Hightone Records and Craft Recordings, celebrating its 40th anniversary, are in the process of re-releasing [...]
Features
More People Really Should Know About: Roseanne Reid
Born and raised in Edinburgh but now based in Dundee, Roseanne Reid is the daughter of Craig Reid, who, with his twin brother Charlie, formed the duo The Proclaimers in 1983. With two albums and [...]
Interviews
Interview: Wesley Stace “I’m never satisfied with my artistic output”
Since his birth in Sussex in 1965, Wesley Stace has become a man of all colours, releasing 21 albums (17 under the nom de auteur-interprète John Wesley Harding), writing four books, organising the Cabinet of [...]

Something for the weekend: This is Lorelei “I Will Eat My Heart in The Morning Light” – the sweetest melody of the year
October 16, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, a week in which we said goodbye to our longtime writers Paul Kerr and Martin Johnson, both of whom died at a very similar age within a [...]
Danny Malone “Burning Hills” – making a pathway to the future
October 16, 2026 0
Burning Hills is the first release by Danny Malone in over a decade; it marks a return to music that has been, by any measure, not an easy one. In the early 2010s, his star [...]
Video: JP Harris “Hang Me” – “Old-time music has been a baseline for me”
October 16, 2026 0
Against the backdrop of a vast and gorgeous landscape, JP Harris delivers another brilliantly moody tune. Hang Me features fiddle and harmony vocals from Chance McCoy, the perfect complement to Harris’s banjo. And, it must [...]
Track Premiere: Hunter Moss “Let You Down”
October 15, 2026 0
Hunter Moss is a singer-songwriter and guitarist from New Jersey who found his musical way when he discovered the guitar, immersing himself in the instrument, frequently spending hours a day playing. In the best tradition, [...]
Video: David Haerle “Carolyn” – the mental strain of letting go
October 15, 2026 0
Carolyn, a recent single from singer-songwriter David Haerle, follows the journey love takes, from its beginning to the long heartache that lingers after love is gone. The song is built upon Jon Lee Keenan’s pulsing [...]

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