Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ February 13, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Kentucky Too Long” Videos
  • [ February 13, 2026 ] Sky Smeed “Live at Rock House” Album Reviews
  • [ February 13, 2026 ] Love – is it all there is? Tracks
  • [ February 13, 2026 ] Classic Clips: Tom Russell “The Last Time I Saw Hank” – Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, 16th September 2017 Classic Clips
  • [ February 13, 2026 ] Book Review: Jay Nachman with Graham Parker and The Rumour “Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind” Book Reviews
Home2017

Year: 2017

Videos

Video: Margo Price “Weakness”

August 30, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

The title track of the latest EP from Margo Price is the sort of song to give country music a good name.  Great performance too.

Album Reviews

Ian Felice “In The Kingdom of Dreams” (Loose, 2017)

August 29, 2017 David Cowling 0

Between two things there is often a dilution of each, a middle of the road but there is also the possibility of great fertility. I mention this as when listening to this record my first impression […]

News

Van Morrison joins Americana Awards 2017 line-up

August 29, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

If we could afford to cover this in person we would, although you do avoid Van on a bad day biting your head off (sorry, lazy journalism there). Rolling Stone Country reports: “Eclectic UK rock legends Van […]

Album Reviews

Jesse Dayton “The Revealer” (Blue Elan Records, 2016)

August 29, 2017 David Stevenson 0

Jesse Dayton has had quite the career, playing alongside true legends like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Glen Campbell, time spent making soundtracks for horror movies and even venturing into punk for a spell in the […]

Tracks

Track premiere: Caroline Reese “Nicotine”

August 29, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

“Two Horses” is the new EP by Pennsylvania raised singer-songwriter Caroline Reese which lands on September 8th, and Gawd bless her she’s shared a track from it with us to delight both of your ears (or […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 104 105 106 … 319 »

Donate to Americana UK

If you enjoy what you're reading and don't want to support us on a monthly basis, you can help us keep this site free from looking like one of those awful REACH sites by making a one off donation towards our running costs. We all do this in our spare time! THANK YOU.

Recent Forum Posts

  • RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    Binge-watched Small Prophets and loved it. I'm generall...

    By Viv Fish , 2 hours ago

  • RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    I came to the Detectorists a bit late, but have watched...

    By Martin Johnson , 6 hours ago

  • RE: New Sturgill, oops, new Johnny Blues Skies I mean

    Love and hate is good I think, Paul. Much better than a...

    By Martin Johnson , 6 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Various Artists - Strum & Thrum: The American Jangl...

    By Joe Nathan , 12 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    The Smithereens - Especially For You

    By Joe Nathan , 16 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    The Del Fuegos - The Longest Day

    By Joe Nathan , 20 hours ago

  • RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    Small Prophets, binge watch heaven. Who knew DUY shops ...

    By Andy Short , 1 day ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Bloodshot Records - Pro live and anti love playlist for...

    By Andy Short , 1 day ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Van Halen - Fair Warning

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

our latest posts

Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Kentucky Too Long”

Videos
February 13, 2026 1

Sky Smeed “Live at Rock House”

Album Reviews
February 13, 2026 0

Love – is it all there is?

Tracks
February 13, 2026 0

Classic Clips: Tom Russell “The Last Time I Saw Hank” – Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, 16th September 2017

Classic Clips
February 13, 2026 1

Book Review: Jay Nachman with Graham Parker and The Rumour “Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind”

Book Reviews
February 13, 2026 0

  • Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Kentucky Too Long”
  • Sky Smeed “Live at Rock House”
  • Love – is it all there is?
  • Classic Clips: Tom Russell “The Last Time I Saw Hank” – Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, 16th September 2017
  • Book Review: Jay Nachman with Graham Parker and The Rumour “Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind”
  • Preview: Blues guitarist extraordinaire Samantha Fish heads to UK for dates
  • The latest AUK Podcast now live featuring not one but two interviews!
  • Track Premiere: Eric Brandt “Size Of Diamonds”
  • Video Premiere: Zoe FitzGerald Carter “Lying Voices” – the consequences of all that endless lying
  • Top Ten Americana Songs Of All Time: Keith Hargreaves
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Mark Whitfield: Thanks for raising this Thomas, we do take this kind of thing seriously - you will see from most of…
  • Kenny: How's Tom doing? Heard he's been unwell.
  • Thomas Stephens: I'm no DEI fanatic by not having not one woman on the list is absurd? Where is Loretta Lynn, Lucinda…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 1

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

Behind the Songs

Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

Interviews

Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

You may have missed…

Videos

Video: Thomas Dollbaum “Florida”

December 17, 2021 0

In ‘Florida’, Thomas Dollbaum delivers a masterful vocal performance, backed beautifully by Kate Teague’s harmonies.  The song begins with just Dollbaum’s storytelling over gently finger-picked guitar.  Steadily, ‘Florida’ builds and grows, with Mac Folger’s violin and […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Oliver James Brooks “Lead Foot”

October 28, 2021 0

Opening with rhythmic, fuzzy electric guitar unfolding in a slow, atmospheric rumble, the new single from Oliver James Brooks is a hypnotic song to get lost in.  Written while sitting like a child in the backseat […]

Tracks

Eilen Jewell “Lethal Love” – you or nobody

March 24, 2023 0

Eilen Jewell could be forgiven for reflecting that life can throw you a curve ball or two, and she does say that “They say things have to get worse before they can get better and for […]

© Americana UK 2025, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool