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Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring the mighty MC Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger

May 1, 2026 0

This week’s podcast sees Keith discussing art and life, recording and touring, and much, much more with the wonderful MC Taylor of Hiss Golden Messenger, whose new album I’m People comes out today. There are also […]

Teddy Thompson “The Game” – Love all

May 1, 2026 0

And so All Star Tracks fortnight draws to a close with this song from the new release from Teddy Thompson, representing a return to recording new music after six years. The Game is taken from the […]

Video: Matt Palka “My Ramblin’ Rose” – the gift of connection

May 1, 2026 0

Ohio singer-songwriter Matt Palka’s new single, My Ramblin’ Rose, is a beautifully crafted reflection on times past and fleeting relationships, universal ideas we can all relate to. With sweet finger-picking and his clear, tuneful vocal that […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Thea Gilmore Songs

April 30, 2026 2

Thea Gilmore is one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary British songwriting. Her work is often experimental, thrillingly so at times, and she moves effortlessly between genres without ever being defined by them. Elements of […]

Preview: Georgia’s Clover County plays first ever UK and Ireland tour dates in May

April 30, 2026 0

Emerging Georgia singer/songwriter Clover County, whose debut album, Finer Things, was released in September 2025 via her own label Undercover Lover Records in partnership with Thirty Tigers, has announced a short series of tour dates in […]

Essentials
Essentials: The Top 10 Thea Gilmore Songs
Thea Gilmore is one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary British songwriting. Her work is often experimental, thrillingly so at times, and she moves effortlessly between genres without ever being defined by them. Elements [...]
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Jesse Malin
New Yorker Jesse Malin began his performing career in the New York hardcore band Heart Attack, before assuming the role of vocalist of glam punk band D Generation. Between 1994 and 1999 D Generation released [...]
Interviews
Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris
Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his [...]
Features
More People Really Should Know About: Blue Water Highway
Blue Water Highway is an Austin-based Americana/folk rock band. Their signature is considered songwriting across a variety of styles, but always melodic, with fantastic harmony singing. Musically timeless, there are elements of Laurel Canyon songwriting, [...]
AUK Mini-Gigs
Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Dan Bern
People used to call Dan Bern “the new Dylan” or sometimes “smarty pants.” There have been more than a few new Dylans over the years. Bern was not one of them. A pal of mine [...]

Paperback Riders: John Perry Barlow “Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times” and The Principles Of Adult Behavior

April 30, 2026 0

John Perry Barlow’s memoir Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times reads like an acid trip from the American counterculture, yet also carries an idealistic turn that comes from living through multiple revolutions. The book […]

Live Review: Eric Bibb + Janileigh Cohen, St. Leonard’s Church, Bridgnorth – 25th March 2026

April 30, 2026 0

You probably wouldn’t immediately think of St. Leonard’s Church in Bridgnorth as a likely venue if someone were to mention a roof-raising indie-folk and blues double bill. Yet on a storm-lashed March evening, the old sandstone […]

Vox Continental: April 2026

April 30, 2026 0

This month’s all about new music, with new singles from Sweden and Denmark and new albums from Norway and Finland. Plus, a French duo taking their music to the USA. We kick off this month’s offerings […]

GA-20 & Charlie Musselwhite “Crazy Love” – crazy ’bout my lovin’

April 30, 2026 0

Famously, we don’t really cover the Blues here at Americana UK, and equally famously, we do cover Charlie Musselwhite, whose distinctive sound fits in well amongst proto-americana contemporaries. Which is by way of explanation for today’s […]

Video: Brown Horse “Comeback Loading” – dumb, ironic t-shirt slogans to something more real

April 30, 2026 0

In the video for Brown Horse’s latest single, the band is stranded in the tour van before they work together to tune up the van and get back on the road. It’s a light-hearted visual inspired […]

Teddy Thompson “The Game” – Love all
May 1, 2026 0
And so All Star Tracks fortnight draws to a close with this song from the new release from Teddy Thompson, representing a return to recording new music after six years. The Game is taken from [...]
Video: Matt Palka “My Ramblin’ Rose” – the gift of connection
May 1, 2026 0
Ohio singer-songwriter Matt Palka’s new single, My Ramblin’ Rose, is a beautifully crafted reflection on times past and fleeting relationships, universal ideas we can all relate to. With sweet finger-picking and his clear, tuneful vocal [...]
GA-20 & Charlie Musselwhite “Crazy Love” – crazy ’bout my lovin’
April 30, 2026 0
Famously, we don’t really cover the Blues here at Americana UK, and equally famously, we do cover Charlie Musselwhite, whose distinctive sound fits in well amongst proto-americana contemporaries. Which is by way of explanation for [...]
Video: Brown Horse “Comeback Loading” – dumb, ironic t-shirt slogans to something more real
April 30, 2026 0
In the video for Brown Horse’s latest single, the band is stranded in the tour van before they work together to tune up the van and get back on the road. It’s a light-hearted visual [...]
Folk Tracks Roundup – April 2026
April 29, 2026 0
We’re heading towards the Summer now, May Day falls this week, and the obvious thing would be to offer you, valued reader, a swathe of music that touches on those themes of rebirth and the [...]

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