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Features

Ten top Swamp Pop tracks

February 23, 2021 Rick Bayles 7
In the 1950s Cajun music and Rock and Roll got together and produced a daughter – they called her “Swamp Pop”! By now, regular readers will know I’m quite a fan of Cajun and Zydeco music […]
Tracks

Track Premiere: The Armadillo Paradox “Can’t Hold A Job”

February 23, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
The Armadillo Paradox are a country/bluegrass influenced duo: Sol Chase brings the bluegrass and storyteller/former hip-hop artist Jared Huskey brings….the stories, but new single ‘Can’t Hold a Job‘ is hip-hop free.  It’s not such a strange […]
Videos

Video Premiere: David Picco “Waitin’ for the Summertime”

February 23, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Just ahead of his new album, ‘Live It Down’, we’re pleased to premiere David Picco’s new video for ‘Waitin’ for the Summertime’.  It’s the second single from the album, which is Picco’s sixth full-length release.  The […]
Features

Forgotten Artists – The Black Sorrows

February 22, 2021 Rick Bayles 6
Another possible first for the FORGOTTEN ARTISTS series – I don’t think we’ve featured an Antipodean band before! The Black Sorrows hail from Melbourne, Australia, and started life as an R&B covers band. The founder and […]
Tracks

Amythyst Kiah “Black Myself” – Listen

February 22, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
You know the song, of course you do, it was one of the standout songs on the standout debut album by Our Native Daughters. Well, here it has been reimagined by Amythyst Kiah (one of those […]

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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 […]
Features

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

September 24, 2026 0
Stephen Eyre is singer and guitarist with South Oxfordshire band Only The Brave. Our Graeme Tait reviewed their debut EP and described them as a band with a bright future in his February EP roundup. Stephen […]
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Vox Continental: September 2026

September 24, 2026 0
With the long, hot summer finally fading, it seems like a lot of European artists are keen to get out on tour. Oakland Rain are a Norwegian folk and Americana duo, made up of twin sisters, […]

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  • Video Premiere: Elli de Mon “Strange Fruit”
  • AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – September 2026
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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 […]
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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. […]

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Essentials: The Top Ten Creedence Clearwater Revival Cover Songs

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Introducing a band to the world with a cover song isn’t often done, yet in 1969 Creedence Clearwater Revival went against the grain by choosing Screamin’ Jay Hawkins’ 1958 soul classic ‘l Put a Spell on […]

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