May 2022 – Page 22 – Americana UK

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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. […]

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. […]

Dirty Dozens

Dirty Dozen: Jaime Wyatt

August 14, 2017 0

Jaime Wyatt’s newest release ‘Felony Blues’, whose title is a nod to records like David Allan Coe’s ‘Penitentiary Blues’, is largely an autobiographical collection of convict love stories, prison songs, and honky-tonk laments. Can you tell […]

Tracks

Me&You “S.O.L.” – Listen

March 2, 2020 0

S.O.L ? Yeah – well it’s to protect your delicate sensitivities, oh fans of Americana but we are fearless – hear us roar – and we are here to tell you that if you listen to […]

Album Reviews

The Rainbow Girls “Welcome to Whatever”

January 11, 2024 1

Independently minded, should be a breakthrough record from California (not) folk trio. The Rainbow Girls may be a new name to most in the UK but they are 10 years into a highly individual career and […]

Month: May 2022

Americana UK’s weekly podcast launches today!

Track Premiere: The Jaws Of Brooklyn “Sugar Sugar” – Strutting garage-rock sounds

Eli “Paperboy” Reed “Down Every Road”

Video: Clara Mann “Thread”

Sam Shackleton “Causeway Recordings”

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”