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Americana UK’s weekly podcast launches today!

May 13, 2022 Emily Dongray 0
Last week, the pilot episode of Americana UK’s weekly podcast ‘The Roundup‘ went up on the magazine’s Soundcloud. This week the show launches in a condensed format. The weekly digest endeavours to give listeners a chance […]
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Track Premiere: The Jaws Of Brooklyn “Sugar Sugar” – Strutting garage-rock sounds

May 13, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Let’s close out a week which has shifted from world-weary folk through some mid-week high-jiggery to touches of psychedelia with a piece of polished garage, if that’s not too much of an oxymoron for y’all.  ‘Sugar […]
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Eli “Paperboy” Reed “Down Every Road”

May 13, 2022 Graeme Tait 0
Interesting R’n’B take on Haggard’s blue collar country classics. Eli “Paperboy” Reed first burst on to the scene in 2008 with his debut album, ‘Roll With You’. A high octane explosion of original R’n’B material with […]
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Video: Clara Mann “Thread”

May 13, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0
A dreamy nostalgia is evoked in Clara Mann’s new video for ‘Thread’.  An elegy to a lost friend, the song is like grief, it is melancholy and yet hopeful all at the same time. This is […]
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Sam Shackleton “Causeway Recordings”

May 13, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0
On ‘Causeway Recordings,’ Sam Shackleton is able to successfully combine two traditions and roll them into one. Americana music is built on so many musical traditions and it is not solely exclusive to the American continent. […]

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We are mightily delighted to announce today full details for Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House on Saturday […]
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Something for the weekend: Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats “Put the Message in the Box”

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Well that’s it from us for this week, an exciting day for us as we announce full details for our 25 year event which takes place in Liverpool later this year – you can find more […]
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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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