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Videos

Video premiere: High Coast “Troubles and Lies”

March 26, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0
We’ve featured High Coast before here on AUK, so it’s a pleasure to premiere their new video on Americana UK today – a good Friday even if it’s not Good Friday. High Coast in its various […]
Americana Roots

Americana Roots: George Jackson

March 26, 2021 Tim Newby 0
Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US.  It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts who […]
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Album Reviews

The Armadillo Paradox “Out of Gas in Oil Country”

March 26, 2021 Sean Hannam 1
Clever, wry and often annoying country-indie-folk-pop from Austin, Texas – like Barenaked Ladies gone bluegrass. In an unexpected and unlikely collaboration, bluegrass artist Sol Chase and former hip-hop artist/storyteller Jared Huskey have joined forces and made […]
Columns

Cajun Corner – Book Review: Ann Allen Savoy “Cajun Music: A Reflection of a People”

March 26, 2021 Rick Bayles 1
Following the interest that my recent lists of Cajun, Zydeco and Swamp Pop/Rock tracks brought we’re launching a new, occasional series to focus on the music of the Louisiana bayous. What better way to launch this […]
Tracks

Keb Mo’ & Old Crow Medicine Show “Medicine Man” – Listen

March 26, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Keb Mo’ and Old Crow Medicine Show crack that difficult “end of the pandemic” vibe on this new song.  See, as they are quick to point out “we’re all just waiting on the medicine, man”.  ‘Cos, […]

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Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

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Tift Merritt “Sugar”

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Lynyrd Skynyrd on OGWT 1975

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

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Hawk And Steel “Ain’t Never Moving On”

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Latest AUK Podcast is a bumper edition featuring Other Brother Darryl & Danni Nicholls

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Videos

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2
Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]
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Album Reviews

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0
Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]
Lynyrd Skynyrd on OGWT 1975
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0
Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

  • Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”
  • Tift Merritt “Sugar”
  • Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975
  • Hawk And Steel “Ain’t Never Moving On”
  • Latest AUK Podcast is a bumper edition featuring Other Brother Darryl & Danni Nicholls
  • Eilen Jewell “Soul Kitchen” – breakin’ on through to the other side
  • Video Premiere: Maya de Vitry “Nobody Else”
  • Essentials: The top 10 Essential Americana Live Albums
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Interviews

Interview: Matt Patershuk writes songs for the small moments we all share

June 24, 2026 1
As an animal lover and caretaker of horses, dogs and cats, the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Patershuk certainly caught my attention. Dog Tiger Horses on Red Hen Records (2025) is green as grass, country-folk […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

June 18, 2026 0
Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]
Interviews

Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0
In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]

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Live Reviews

Giant Sand + Patsy’s Rats, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 10th June 2018

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Never a man to resist a whim, Howe Gelb has resurrected the band title he retired a few years back and re-recorded the first album which came out under the Giant Sand name, 1985’s ‘Valley of […]
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Tracks

Helena Hallberg “Epithet” – taking power back from catcallers

February 28, 2024 0
Helena Hellberg takes on catcallers on ‘Epithet’.  The Swedish/Swiss singer who now calls Nashville home is releasing her debut album on 29th March.  Following ‘Surprisingly Disco’ and ‘From the Outside’, ‘Epithet’ is the third single and […]
Features

What’s another year? Tim Martin looks back on 2021

December 15, 2021 1
While I’m not suggesting that Johnny Logan’s Eurovision winner was a best song of any year, 2021 has been a cracking year for Americana. Looking back at my album reviews I have given more 8 and […]

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