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Interview: Cristina Vane on playing McCabe’s Guitar Shop, delta blues and old-time music

April 15, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

Attending Princeton and the challenges of clawhammer banjo and borrowing Wynonna Judd’s husband. Americana UK doesn’t normally interview artists who have only just released their debut record simply because their backstory isn’t normally sufficiently developed to […]

Album Reviews

Doug Hoekstra “The Day Deserved”

April 15, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0

Poetic observations of people, places and times unencumbered by musical boundaries. As his publisher once said, “for Doug Hoekstra, everyone is a story and everything a storyline”. That certainly applies to Hoekstra’s new album ‘The Day […]

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Mike West “Rock Ferry” – Listen

April 15, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

If you look on a map Americana UK Towers is somewhere in South Liverpool, and from our turret we can see over the Mersey to the Wirral, birthland of your always swimming against the tide (river) […]

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Margo Price joins board of Farm Aid

April 15, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Margo Price has become the first female artist elected to the Board of Directors for Farm Aid, the organisation which puts on an annual benefit but works year-round to “build a system of agriculture that values […]

Album Reviews

Charles Ellsworth “Honeysuckle Summer”

April 15, 2021 Ewan Lury 0

An album that is too short to be brilliant. Charles Ellsworth’s latest album, ‘Honeysuckle Summer’, is a fun and energetic americana album that shows some great promise. Ellsworth, who is a NYC transplant by way of […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Cambridge Folk Festival announces second list of acts for 2024

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The  Cambridge Folk Festival has announced its second tranche of acts for the 2024 event, including several names to whet the appetite of fans of Americana. Following their shows with the 2024 Transatlantic Sessions, banjo/ fiddle […]

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Sean Thompson’s Weird Ears “Head In The Sand”

February 6, 2025 0

Eclectic mix of genres and self-critical reflections following traumatic times. Nashville’s celebrated guitarist and singer-songwriter Sean Thompson released his first album ‘Weird Ears’ in 2022. That was very much a country record in which he demonstrated […]

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Video: Glitterfox “Wildfires”

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Portland’s Glitterfox are one of the most exciting acts out there, with the seven-song recent release “Highway Forever” demonstrating their fabulous songcraft and gift for memorable melody. The duo, frontperson Solange Igoa and guitarist Andrea Walker, […]

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