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. […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
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RE: Versions!
@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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RE: What are you watching at the moment?
Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
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Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
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The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...
By Peter Thompson , 6 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
@andyshort Yes, it makes a refreshing change from artis...
By Peter Thompson , 1 week ago
RE: My First Record Player
I had a Rotel amp and turntable too until the buttons s...
By Andy Short , 1 week ago

For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

May 11, 2026 0

The Woodstock festival held in 1969 at Yasgur’s farm, Bethel, New York, is one of those truly emblematic moments in the history of contemporary music, and indeed in the birth of americana. And of course it’s […]

I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”

May 11, 2026 0

Nordic americana with a slightly heavier tinge. I’m Kingfisher is the alter ego of Swedish singer-songwriter Thomas Jonsson. Give Up Together is his sixth album under that guise and comes three years after his last release, […]

AUK Mini-Gigs

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

May 11, 2026 0

Igloo Hearts are James and Katie MacGregor, a married folk-pop duo from North Wales. For our next AUK mini-gig, they kindly agreed to share some of their latest songs with our readers and viewers. Since appearing […]

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”

For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

Peter Case “At McCabe’s: My Life to Live”

The Krickets “If You Only Knew”