2021 – Page 291 – Americana UK

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 […]

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 […]

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) […]

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 […]

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 […]