2018 – Page 3 – Americana UK

Luke Sital-Singh “Love is Hard Enough Without the Winter” – Listen

December 20, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

There’s nothing saccharine about the sentiment in this song from Luke Sital-Singh, which is as cold and bleak as the winter he’s proposing to reject. It touches directly on the rough edges in any relationship, the […]

Americana UK writers pick their albums of 2018

December 20, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Once upon a time we used to do a “Top 10” list of our favourite stuff from the last year, but we used to all fall out, on several occasions it came to blows and three […]

Kaia Kater “Grenades” (Smithsonian Folkways, 2019)

December 20, 2018 Graham McCusker 0

‘Grenades,’ the excellent second record from Grenadian-Canadian Kaia Kater comes with an intriguing back story. The singer-songwriter decided to explore her father’s Grenadian roots and it sets an interesting platform upon which the record is built. Having […]

Annie Oakley “Words We Mean” (Horton Records, 2018)

December 20, 2018 David Stevenson 0

Annie Oakley are a three-piece acoustic trio from Oklahoma City and ‘Words We Mean’ is the group’s first full length album and the culmination of many years of writing and playing together – the chemistry between […]

Video: Allison Lupton “The Eve Of Christmas Day”

December 20, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

Well, it is that time of year so here’s an excellent song from Allison Lupton, aided and abetted by UK folk stars The Young ‘Uns, Craig Werth and the Canterbury Brass. It’s rather lovely and never […]

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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 […]

Tracks

Filthy Friends “Last Chance County” – Listen

March 15, 2019 0

Remember when everyone claimed to have a punk sensibility which they were bringing to their music? Filthy Friends certainly do. And who are Filthy Friends? Well Sleater-Kinney co-founder Corin Tucker, R.E.M. guitarist Peter Buck and indie stalwarts Scott McCaughey and Kurt […]

News

Ryan Adams covers Springsteen for Radio 1 – Watch

February 28, 2017 0

Some other nice clips on the bigger BBC site, and you don’t need to be 13 to watch them. Billboard reports: “In anticipation of BBC Radio 6’s celebration of the year 1994, singer-songwriter Ryan Adams covered […]

Tracks

Garrett Owen “No One To Save You” – Listen

October 8, 2020 0

Garrett Owen’s new song ‘No One to Save You Now‘ is a world-weary troubadour’s song – weary as hell and having to get ready for the show whilst managing a long-distance relationship which seems to be […]

Year: 2018

Luke Sital-Singh “Love is Hard Enough Without the Winter” – Listen

Americana UK writers pick their albums of 2018

Kaia Kater “Grenades” (Smithsonian Folkways, 2019)

Annie Oakley “Words We Mean” (Horton Records, 2018)

Video: Allison Lupton “The Eve Of Christmas Day”

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”