January 2022 – Page 10

AMA-UK Awards cancelled – award ceremony to be streamed online

January 21, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

The Americana Music Association UK (AMA-UK) has, with great regret, announced that UK Americana Music Week, due to take place in Hackney, London over January 24-27th, has been cancelled. This is due to the current COVID-19 […]

Classic Clips: Townes Van Zandt “Waiting Around to Die” from Heartworn Highways (1981)

January 21, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

This week’s clip comes from the 1981 documentary ‘Heartworn Highways‘ by James Szalapski. The documentary focuses on early footage of folk and country musicians. It includes artists Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, Steve Earle, David Allan […]

Fred Wickham Caravan “Town Without Soul”

January 21, 2022 Gordon Sharpe 0

Plenty to admire from an experienced musician with views on affairs of the heart and a range of influences. Fred Wickham and his caravaners hail from Kansas City and Wickham has apparently been a fixture in […]

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The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Great American Radio Vol. 9”

January 21, 2022 Kimberly Bright 0

Enjoyable Nitty Gritty Dirt Band live performances from 1974. This collection is the ninth in a series of Retroworld’s archival releases of concerts and studio performances broadcast on American radio in the ’70’s. The two CD’s […]

Amythyst Kiah “Love Will Tear Us Apart” – heading for a blues friday…

January 21, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

One of the features of a great song is that it is malleable, can be reformed and reworked and still stand up as a great song. And ‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’ is one such, June […]

Dean Owenswith John Convertino and Joey Burns

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

September 24, 2026 0

It’s week 2 of the search for our writers’ Top 10 UK americana albums, and Jonathan Hincks will doubt add to the debate with his choice, as follows: With the hands of the Doomsday Clock edging […]

Album artwork for The Fool by Embla and the Karldotters

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

September 24, 2026 0

Norwegian queer-country assertively and affectionately delivering. Embla Karidotter was the drummer for Norwegian indie band Razika for 13 years, before she chose to change direction and build on her love of country music with new band […]

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

September 24, 2026 0

On the 16th of October, Béla Fleck is to release the recording of a stellar Nashville night as a live album called Live Heart. On January 8, 2022, he and a multigenerational gang of musical heavy […]

Behind the Songs

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 […]

Interviews

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. […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Twisted Pine “Knockout Roses”

October 16, 2024 0

Boston’s Twisted Pine are back with their first new album in four years, ‘Love Your Mind,’ which is out on October 18th. Twisted Pine started out a decade ago as a progressive-Bluegrass band, and whilst they are […]

Tracks

Phoebe Hunt & The Gatherers “Baba Vanga” – Listen

October 14, 2019 1

Oh my goodness – what is Phoebe Hunt doing to country on her new album ‘Neither One of US is Wrong‘? Or, put it another way, what is Phoebe Hunt not doing to country on her […]

Album Reviews

P.J.M. Bond “In Our Time”

January 23, 2024 0

Ambitious debut album that attempts to put Ernest Hemingway’s first collection of short stories to music. P.J.M Bond is a songwriter based in Amsterdam who first came to prominence around eight years ago with his band […]

Month: January 2022

AMA-UK Awards cancelled – award ceremony to be streamed online

Classic Clips: Townes Van Zandt “Waiting Around to Die” from Heartworn Highways (1981)

Fred Wickham Caravan “Town Without Soul”

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “Great American Radio Vol. 9”

Amythyst Kiah “Love Will Tear Us Apart” – heading for a blues friday…

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”