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Year: 2019

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Happy Christmas to all our readers from Americana UK

December 20, 2019 Mark Whitfield 6

Well that’s a wrap from us for this year dear readers. Thanks so much for all your support for the site which we still manage to scrape along on a shoestring budget, but it happens firstly […]

Features

Roseanne Reid selects her top ten Americana Christmas tracks

December 20, 2019 Andrew Frolish 0

Here at AUK, we are jolly souls, who like to share the seasonal joy – three things we particularly love are endlessly debatable top ten lists, Christmas songs, and Roseanne Reid. Could it be possible to […]

Features

2019 has been Yola’s year

December 20, 2019 Mark Underwood 0

I can quite vividly remember New Year’s Eve last year, with family members clustered around the TV set for Jools Holland’s Hootenanny and the satisfaction I had in being able to point to a rising star […]

Features

Here are the results of 2019’s Americana UK readers poll!

December 20, 2019 Mark Whitfield 1

So here we are again. If the word “poll” is still making you break out in cold sweats, this will hopefully be cathartic before the year is out. We should have actually started counting the number […]

Videos

Watch Tyler Childers performing “Country Squire”

December 20, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

We do love a bit of Tyler Childers here on AUK and earlier in the week he was the musical guest on Late Night With Seth Meyers Monday night, performing the title track from his rather […]

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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 […]

Interviews

Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

February 3, 2026 0

When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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Live Review: Joe Hicks + Cordelia Gartside, Paper Dress Vintage, London – 21st November 2023

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Describing itself as a Hackney hotspot since 2007, Paper Dress Vintage offers clothes by day and live music by night, when the rails of threads make way for the bar. Upstairs is a room with capacity […]

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Firstly, may I start by thanking my esteemed colleague Fred Arnold for picking up the baton and doing such a sterling job with last month’s EP Round-Up while I took a much-needed holiday. Now with my […]

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