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Latest AUK podcast now available featuring The Cowboy Junkies’ Micheal Timmins in conversation

April 24, 2026 0

This week’s interview is with Cowboy Junkies mainman and founder, Michael Timmins, on the cusp of the release of Open To Beauty, the compilation of their best tracks of the 21st Century, and their UK Tour. […]

Book Review: Amy Rigby “Girl To Country: A Memoir”

April 24, 2026 0

The second volume of Amy Rigby’s memoirs picks up the story where we left her in Girl To City. The earlier book was “set in a ramshackle twentieth century New York world of homemade clubs and […]

Taj Mahal “Wild About My Lovin'” –

April 24, 2026 0

And so we reach the end of all star week here at the Tracks section of Americana UK – did we not mention that it’s all star week at Tracks? We figured you’d notice. Taj Mahal’s […]

Video Premiere: Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock “Summer Rain”

April 24, 2026 0

The gorgeous Summer Rain is the latest single from folk duo Jo Bartlett and Neil Haydock. There is the perfect confluence of three elements: wistful, yearning music; sensitive, narrative lyrics; and a visual, which is steeped […]

Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alynda Segarra 3rd May 2014

Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs

April 23, 2026 0

In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurray For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that article defined glory, yet […]

Essentials
Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs
In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurray For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that article defined glory, [...]
Interviews
Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him
At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing [...]
Interviews
Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played [...]
Cajun Corner
Cajun Corner – catch ’em while they’re young!
We’re back! It has been some time since we posted a Cajun Corner article, but we’re resolved to be more proactive about bringing you news and updates on Cajun & Zydeco music, because we know [...]
Interviews
Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of [...]

Bedouine’s new album “Neon Summer Skin” out in June

April 23, 2026 0

Bedouine, the project of LA-based musician Azniv Korkejian, releases her new album, Neon Summer Skin, on 5th June 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Across Neon Summer Skin, Korkejian intentionally returned to the instruments she played as a […]

Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

April 23, 2026 0

At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]

Live Review: The Ramblin’ Roots Revue 2026, New Buckinghamshire University – 10th-12th April 2026

April 23, 2026 1

Once again, the High Wycombe Travelodge girded its loins for its busiest weekend of the year, as the crowds gathered from near and far (but mostly far) for the next instalment of the first of the […]

Red Rooster crows no more

April 23, 2026 0

We hate to be the bearers of more bad news with everything else going on in the world at the moment but another UK festival has fallen by the wayside. This time it’s Red Rooster which […]

Deer Tick “Everything Born” – goes through changes

April 23, 2026 0

On 5th June, Providence’s Deer Tick will release their ninth studio album, Coin-O-Matic, via ATO. In advance of that comes the customary singles, of which Everything Born is the latest, and it touches on the LP’s underlying […]

Taj Mahal “Wild About My Lovin'” –
April 24, 2026 0
And so we reach the end of all star week here at the Tracks section of Americana UK – did we not mention that it’s all star week at Tracks? We figured you’d notice. Taj [...]
Video Premiere: Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock “Summer Rain”
April 24, 2026 0
The gorgeous Summer Rain is the latest single from folk duo Jo Bartlett and Neil Haydock. There is the perfect confluence of three elements: wistful, yearning music; sensitive, narrative lyrics; and a visual, which is [...]
Deer Tick “Everything Born” – goes through changes
April 23, 2026 0
On 5th June, Providence’s Deer Tick will release their ninth studio album, Coin-O-Matic, via ATO. In advance of that comes the customary singles, of which Everything Born is the latest, and it touches on the LP’s [...]
Video Premiere: Old Spot “Tom Dooley”
April 23, 2026 0
Old Spot’s latest single is a quietly absorbing reworking of the classic Tom Dooley. Rowan Piggott’s fiddle has a gently insistent rhythmic urgency, creating the foundation for the sweetly picked notes of Joe Danks’ banjo. The [...]
Steep Canyon Rangers “Roll Of The Dice” – let the bones roll where they will
April 22, 2026 0
Gearing up for the release of their fifteenth studio album; not counting the collaborations with renowned bluegrass banjoist Steve Martin, the Steep Canyon Rangers: Graham Sharp (banjo, vocals), Mike Guggino (mandolin/mandola, vocals), Aaron Burdett (guitar, [...]

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