2019 – Page 303 – Americana UK

Jess Klein “Back To My Green” (Blue Rose Records, 2019)

February 12, 2019 Tim Merricks 1

Just as the generations have always offered up explosions of outstanding peer collectives down the ages, so it seems that lately there has been an outbreak of gifted female americana singer-songwriters. Not that Jess Klein is […]

Black Deer adds Case, Kristofferson and Earle (Justin Townes) to 2019 line-up

February 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Oh crikey, this is looking like it’s going to be an event and a half. What’s probably turning into the UK’s biggest americana and country music festival has just announced some more names to its line-up […]

Mavis Staples “Live In London” (Anti-, 2019)

February 12, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

At the age of 79 it would be perfectly understandable if Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, Americana Grammy Award Winner and overall musical legend Mavis Staples were to make a move towards taking it easy, […]

AmericanA to Z – The Delmore Brothers

February 12, 2019 Mark Nenadic 0

Before Americana, before Outlaw Country, before Nashville even; there was Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family and importantly The Delmore Brothers. From a dirt poor Alabama farming family, these boys fused blues, folk and gospel to create […]

Track Premiere – Smith Allen “Pouring Rain”

February 12, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0

If you like your music drenched in pedal steel and with a singer with a warm vocal, then you’re going to like Smith Allen. If you like your backup vocals performed by Miranda Lee Richards then […]

Album artwork for The Fool by Embla and the Karldotters

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

September 24, 2026 0

Norwegian queer-country assertively and affectionately delivering. Embla Karidotter was the drummer for Norwegian indie band Razika for 13 years, before she chose to change direction and build on her love of country music with new band […]

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

September 24, 2026 0

On the 16th of October, Béla Fleck is to release the recording of a stellar Nashville night as a live album called Live Heart. On January 8, 2022, he and a multigenerational gang of musical heavy […]

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

September 24, 2026 0

A collection of rootsier tunes ideal for shuffle or playlist. Anyone who has attended gigs of a rootsier persuasion around Manchester and the northwest in recent years will almost certainly have come across the hard-working and […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]

Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1

As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0

Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

Album Reviews

Jake Blount “Spider Tales” (Free Dirt Records, 2020)

May 12, 2020 0

Taking his cue from the likes of The Carolina Chocolate Drops and subsequent forays by Dom Flemons, Rhiannon Giddens and Songs Of Our Native Daughters, banjo and fiddle player Jake Blount peers into the past when […]

News

Old Man Luedecke to release new album “She Told Me Where To Go”

April 23, 2024 0

Old Man Luedecke will release his latest album ‘She Told Me Where To Go’ on 24th May 2024. The album had its genesis in the pandemic when Luedecke began going out to sea on a scallop […]

Album Reviews

Sam Burchfield’s “Nature Speaks”

October 29, 2025 0

A soulful journey rooted in the Land. Sam Burchfield’s music rises from the foothills of South Carolina near the Blue Ridge Mountains, where the landscapes shaped his sound and spirit. Now based in North Georgia, he […]

Year: 2019

Jess Klein “Back To My Green” (Blue Rose Records, 2019)

Black Deer adds Case, Kristofferson and Earle (Justin Townes) to 2019 line-up

Mavis Staples “Live In London” (Anti-, 2019)

AmericanA to Z – The Delmore Brothers

Track Premiere – Smith Allen “Pouring Rain”

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

Vox Continental: September 2026