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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Your last chance to vote for your own picks

November 3, 2022 Clint West 0
Voting in our readers choice closes at midnight GMT on Sunday November 4th. It’s going to be a close-run race, so every vote will count. Get yours in now! Click on the link to last week’s […]
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Lydia Ramsey “Like A Dream”

November 3, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Lydia Ramsey makes great music, again. On her third album Seattle’s Lydia Ramsey shows her mastery of the upbeat Americana song – with songs that are so catchy that one may at first not pick up […]
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Drive-by Truckers solo artist releases companion album next week

November 3, 2022 Emily Dongray 2
Matt Patton has announced a companion album entitled ‘Tick‘ which will be released on November 11th on Dial Back Sound. The album accompanies Driver-by Truckers tour partner Jerry Joseph’s album ‘The Beautiful Madness‘ which we described […]
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Track Premiere: Sarah Lee Langford and Will Stewart “Staring At The Sun”

November 3, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
The album ‘Bad Luck and Love‘ sees Birmingham Alabama singer-songwriters Sarah Lee Langford and Will Stewart join forces to produce music that is redolent of the whisky-soaked honkytonk and the downtone rough and ready blues bar.  […]
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Video: Jarrod Dickenson “Long Hard Look”

November 3, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0
Few singers possess a voice as distinctively honey-rich and warm as Texan Jarrod Dickenson.  But there’s a little more edge and even anger in that voice on his new material.  It’s been some years since Dickenson’s […]

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Tift Merritt “Sugar”

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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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Eilen Jewell “Soul Kitchen” – breakin’ on through to the other side

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

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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 […]
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Hawk And Steel “Ain’t Never Moving On”

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Deep, reflective alt-americana that certainly rocks. Ain’t Never Moving On marks a new chapter for the band. It is their first album in almost a decade, and it is certainly well worth the wait. With ten […]

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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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Fabrizio Cammarata, The Sebright Arms, London, 29th May 2019

June 17, 2019 0
There was something ill fitting about Fabrizio Cammarata and his Euro entourage holed up deep within the vaults of this back alley retreat for beatnutz and shoegazers that is the Sebright Arms, way out in the […]
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Justin Townes Earle “Faded Valentine” – Listen

April 19, 2017 0
Rolling Stone have posted another track from Justin Townes Earle’s forthcoming album “Kids in the Street” which they describe as “a pedal-to-the-metal Memphis boogie… a return to form – with a twist. “Faded Valentine” conjures up […]
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Lord Huron “Hurricane (Johnnie’s Theme)” – Listen

January 22, 2018 0
Kick-drum folksters Lord Huron whip up a storm on this track – there’s high harmony vocals, stirring guitars and, yes, some kick-drum.  Lord Huron are gigging in the UK right now – couple more dates to […]

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