Americana UK

Brudi Brothers to release new EP and KEXP session

March 26, 2026 0

Mom and Pop Music artists The Brudi Brothers have announced the release of a new EP titled Dark & Stormy on April 17th. In celebration of the release, vaunted Seattle radio station KEXP has aired The […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Satellite Inn

March 26, 2026 0

The very first lineup of Satellite Inn existed since the late ’80s as a garage rockabilly/outlaw country band with the name Henry. Their first demo came out in 1994, when Uncle Tupelo was still touring, and […]

Revitalised Hanging Stars return with their sixth album and an extensive UK tour

March 26, 2026 0

London’s The Hanging Stars return with their sixth album, Just A Day, which is due out on Loose on 19 June – it promises to be a collection of four-part harmonies, twelve-string guitars and chiming songs, […]

Vox Continental: March 2026

March 26, 2026 0

A tribute from a French musician to Terry Reid, new singles from Norway and Portugal, albums from the Netherlands and Italy, and news of a Danish festival. It’s all going on in continental Europe! Many of […]

Crow And Gazelle “Fall How It Will” – more than one way to love

March 26, 2026 0

Who are Crow and Gazelle? Well, we can share this about the Texas-based duo: Crow and Gazelle is Oklahoma Red Dirt pioneer Mike McClure and multidisciplinary artist Chrislyn Lawrence. McClure is a founding member of The […]

Essentials
Essentials: The Top 10 Songs from Season Three of “The Bear”
As we await the outcome of our search for the Best Americana Song Of All Time, Dean Nardi kicks off the return of our popular Essentials series with a light-hearted look at the songs that [...]
AUK Mini-Gigs
Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Satellite Inn
The very first lineup of Satellite Inn existed since the late ’80s as a garage rockabilly/outlaw country band with the name Henry. Their first demo came out in 1994, when Uncle Tupelo was still touring, [...]
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It : Lyle Lovett
There are very few artists who are as consistently excellent across a whole career as Lyle Lovett. He marries sharp, witty observations with immaculate musicianship, starting with his eponymous debut record and going right up [...]
Interviews
Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, [...]
Features
For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”
Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving [...]

Video: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “Life is Scary Horses” – an elegy for a future that might not remember us

March 26, 2026 0

Check out the latest video from the acclaimed Bonnie “Prince” Billy, also known as musician Will Oldham. Life is Scary Horses is a re-invention of the song by Sally Timms and Jon Langford – indeed, Oldham […]

Save the date – Americana 25 will celebrate 25 years of Americana UK in Liverpool in November!

March 25, 2026 2

AUK celebrates with an event in Liverpool city centre on Saturday November 28th. Well, unbelievably, it was a quarter of a century ago that Americana UK first came into existence as a one-man operation run from a […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It : Lyle Lovett

March 25, 2026 0

There are very few artists who are as consistently excellent across a whole career as Lyle Lovett. He marries sharp, witty observations with immaculate musicianship, starting with his eponymous debut record and going right up to […]

Vaiano’s Paisanos “Abrew’s Portuguese Jazz” – it’s not jazz…

March 25, 2026 0

Well, here we are, on the inelegantly and easily misconstrued hump day afternoon, wondering once more when, oh when, oh when will Americana UK bring us a new instrumental track to ease our cares and slide […]

Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 0

A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]

Crow And Gazelle “Fall How It Will” – more than one way to love
March 26, 2026 0
Who are Crow and Gazelle? Well, we can share this about the Texas-based duo: Crow and Gazelle is Oklahoma Red Dirt pioneer Mike McClure and multidisciplinary artist Chrislyn Lawrence. McClure is a founding member of [...]
Video: Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “Life is Scary Horses” – an elegy for a future that might not remember us
March 26, 2026 0
Check out the latest video from the acclaimed Bonnie “Prince” Billy, also known as musician Will Oldham. Life is Scary Horses is a re-invention of the song by Sally Timms and Jon Langford – indeed, [...]
Vaiano’s Paisanos “Abrew’s Portuguese Jazz” – it’s not jazz…
March 25, 2026 0
Well, here we are, on the inelegantly and easily misconstrued hump day afternoon, wondering once more when, oh when, oh when will Americana UK bring us a new instrumental track to ease our cares and [...]
Sam Grassie “Burning Of Auchindoun” – flames take you, and be damned
March 25, 2026 0
There is something exciting going on in the world of folk, at least it seems that way, as we seem to be going through one of those periods of renewal when a crop of astonishing [...]
Video Premiere: Brock Davis “Nowhere Near Ready”
March 25, 2026 0
Here’s the video premiere of the heartfelt new single from Santa Cruz, California-based singer-songwriter Brock Davis. The notes tumble and roll from Davis’s guitar in a stream of melody while his reflective, intimate vocal flows [...]

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