2018 – Americana UK

Happy Christmas from all of us at Americana UK

December 21, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s a wrap from us for this year dear AUK readers. Thanks for all your support over the last 12 months, whether it’s been being a monthly supporter, subscribing to our daily email or just […]

The 2018’s Americana UK readers’ poll results are here!

December 21, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

So here we go again – the last day of term and it’s prize day at Americana UK Towers. It was a classic year for americana in the UK, a year in which you actually had […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Aimee Mann “I Was Thinking I Could Clean Up For Christmas”

December 21, 2018 Paul Villers 0

Well, gosh darn it, it appears to be that time of year again. Here at Americana-UK Towers we are as divided about the festive season as a country pondering Brexit. There are those of us, The […]

Gregory Alan Isakov “Dark, Dark, Dark” – Listen

December 21, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

This is the last Tracks feature of the year, so we wanted to go out with something which captured the mood of the year and this last month or so in particular. So, Gregory Alan Isakov has […]

Straw Bear “Fiction” (Independent, 2018)

December 21, 2018 Tim Merricks 0

Straw Bear named their band after a “bizarre” festival in the home counties during which a single participant is dressed as yep, a straw bear, in celebration of the start of the agricultural year. This says more […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

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 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Videos

Video: Arkansas Dave “Squeaky Clean”

March 8, 2018 0

From his eponymous debut album, out on April 20th, this is a fabulously soulful groove from Arkansas Dave.

Tracks

Calexico “Rambler” – Listen

September 21, 2022 0

Following up on their recent album ‘El Mirado‘ (which we really liked, read the review here), which has been described as eminently danceable (and you know how we like to dance, just not in lines….) Calexico […]

Tracks

Glorietta “Losers Lament” – Listen

September 3, 2018 0

Glorietta is a coming together of a group of friends – Noah Gundersen, Kelsey Wilson(Wild Child), David Ramirez, Grammy award winner Adrian Quesada (Brownout, Black Pumas), Jason Robert Blum and Matthew Logan Vasquez. Over the course of nine-day recording session in a […]

Year: 2018

Happy Christmas from all of us at Americana UK

The 2018’s Americana UK readers’ poll results are here!

Pick of the Political Pops: Aimee Mann “I Was Thinking I Could Clean Up For Christmas”

Gregory Alan Isakov “Dark, Dark, Dark” – Listen

Straw Bear “Fiction” (Independent, 2018)

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”