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Video Premiere: Rosenblume “Knight in Shining Armour”

July 20, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out the video premiere of ‘Knight in Shining Armour’ from Liverpool’s Roseblume.  It’s an earnest song of unrequited love, disarming in its heartfelt and direct sincerity.  There’s a restless rhythm and a foot-tapping beat, creating […]
Album Reviews

Nick County “A Colorful Corner of Northeastern Pennsylvania”

July 19, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0
Perceptive writing lays bare emotional turmoil. For his third release Nick County has added a sprawl of indie, pop, folk to the country and rock of his previous records. At first, these various currents are quite […]
Album Reviews

The Hiding Magpies “Searching For Gold”

July 19, 2021 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0
The Hiding Magpies are on their way to making a great English-rooted Americana album. Magpies are considered to be among more intelligent creatures, according to practically all descriptions of this talking bird. They say they are […]
Videos

Video: Trapper Schoepp “Little Drop of Medicine”

July 19, 2021 Cam Fraser 0
Milwaukee-based Trapper Schoepp, has an excellent new video for ‘Little Drop of Medicine‘, the latest single from his most recent album, ‘May Day‘. As likely to be found behind a gently fingerpicked acoustic or showing off his […]
VERSIONS

VERSIONS: “Mattie Groves (Child ballad number 81)” and the folk process

July 19, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
The folk process they call it – the movement of a song from one place to another, with variations occurring in the tune and the words. At the extreme, a song can cross an ocean, spend […]

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Paperback Riders: George Takei “To The Stars”

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Classic Clips: Julian Taylor “Friend Of The Devil” – LIVE at SiriusXM, 2019

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The Morning Line polish up their Stars on a new label and look to the future

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Gin Wigmore “Beautiful Mess”

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The latest AUK Podcast is now available featuring Laura Veirs

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Book Reviews

Paperback Riders: George Takei “To The Stars”

August 14, 2026 0
George Takei’s 1994 autobiography, To the Stars, is rather more than a standard Hollywood memoir. Whilst it does cover his years on the USS Enterprise in detail, the more interesting aspects lie in the exploration of […]
Julian Taylor at AMAUK Showcases 21_02_25
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Julian Taylor “Friend Of The Devil” – LIVE at SiriusXM, 2019

August 14, 2026 0
Julian Taylor is no stranger to these pages, and his musical journey has lasted more than 25 years… so far. He first got noticed in the band Staggered Crossing, and when they broke up in 2007 […]
News

The Morning Line polish up their Stars on a new label and look to the future

August 14, 2026 0
Big Stir Records has announced the upcoming release of Stars, a career-encompassing yet completely new collection from acclaimed San Francisco Bay Area band The Morning Line (and they’re not horse racing pundits). A 21-track ‘bonanza’ featuring […]

  • Paperback Riders: George Takei “To The Stars”
  • Classic Clips: Julian Taylor “Friend Of The Devil” – LIVE at SiriusXM, 2019
  • The Morning Line polish up their Stars on a new label and look to the future
  • Gin Wigmore “Beautiful Mess”
  • The latest AUK Podcast is now available featuring Laura Veirs
  • Kaz Murphy “Iowa Ohio Arizona” – swinging places for swinging people
  • Video: Ned Collette “Commandeered Parade” – new horror from old books on the shelf
  • Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard
  • Allison Russell “In The Hour of Chaos”
  • Grey DeLisle to release latest album “Don’t Turn Around” in autumn
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  • Alison Jennings: Echoes of Rickie Lee Jones in her vocals, gorgeous instrumentation. She is the daughter of Greg Brown, no?
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Interviews

Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]
Interviews

Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]
Interviews

Interview: Frank Turner reflects on 20 years of Campfire Punkrock

August 11, 2026 0
Remarkably, it is twenty years since Frank Turner released his first solo EP: Campfire Punkrock. The very title was both a statement of intent and a conscious identifier, defining his sound and the purpose of his […]

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Pick of the Political Pops: Waylon Jennings “Mental Revenge”

June 1, 2018 0
We like to think ourselves as fairly tolerant folk here at Americana-UK Towers and are prepared to forgive and forget most things (except not putting fifty pence in the meter over the Bank Holiday so that […]
Videos

Video: Arborist “Here Comes the Devil”

February 5, 2020 0
Taken from the album ‘A Northern View’, this is the new single from Arborist.  It’s a well-directed, moody affair, beautifully sung and with a lovely rhythm.  This collection of songs tells of life from the Northern […]
Tracks

The Deltaz “Turn It Back” – bring it all on

October 19, 2021 0
If you’re someone who feels that there’s something wrong with the Tracks editor – all these emotionally contemplative singer-songwriters, folk bands and yes even Bluegrass, but not so much of the blood-pumping rock touched alt-Country/Americana – […]

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