April 2023 – Page 2 – Americana UK

Live Review: Saturday at Ramblin’ Roots Revue, Bucks Students’ Union, High Wycombe – 15th April 2023

April 28, 2023 Andrew Frolish 3

Saturday’s headliner at Ramblin’ Roots, Robert Vincent, told AUK: “It’s good to be back around everyone, seeing all these musicians together again.” Indeed, there’s still a particular and renewed sense of the communal joy to be […]

artwork for Josh Ritter album "Spectral Lines"

Josh Ritter “Spectral Lines”

April 28, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

A reflective and atmospheric 11th studio album that finds Ritter exploring a broader musical palette. Being fully aware of stating the obvious a lot has changed since Josh Ritter’s last album, 2019’s ‘Fever Break’ delivered its […]

AUK Shortcuts April 2023: Lucy Farrell, Joe Forkan, White Rose Motor Oil, Burning Ferns, Michael Meeking, Mellisa Ruth, Lisa/Liza, The Kirals, Erika Olsen, Duncan Phillips and Innes Wilson’s Freightliner

April 28, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Our latest Short Cuts, an occasional feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]

Track Premiere: Kazimi “River Run”

April 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

New York based Kazimi says that she never set out to make an album and states “I don’t think I would’ve started if I had.” Music had been a secretive activity in which Kazimi strove to […]

Video: Dean Owens “Mother Road”

April 28, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the latest single from Scottish singer-songwriter and AUK-favourite Dean Owens. ‘Mother Road’ is a deeply atmospheric song that places the listener right there on Route 66, both through Owens’ terrific storytelling words and through the […]

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 […]

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

September 24, 2026 0

A collection of rootsier tunes ideal for shuffle or playlist. Anyone who has attended gigs of a rootsier persuasion around Manchester and the northwest in recent years will almost certainly have come across the hard-working and […]

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. […]

Album Reviews

MG Boulter “Clifftown”

May 4, 2021 0

Exquisite, light as air, folksy choral excellence. MG Boulter is a name well known amongst the select few, plucky Brit Americana artists. A trademark light as air voice and marshmallow-soft arrangements float through this suite of […]

Tracks

Heartless Bastards “Photograph” – This is It

July 16, 2021 0

Do you believe in the redemptive power of rock? We do. And without disparaging all those Pandemic Songs and lockdown albums, we’ve got to say that ‘Photograph‘ is exactly the music that we’ve been waiting for, […]

Album Reviews

Justin Rutledge “Passages” (Outside Music, 2019)

November 4, 2019 1

Americana can sometimes tend to melancholy, wistfulness, reflection on life’s journey and misfortunes, cliched at times. Rarely is it delivered by someone who is so obviously happy. Justin Rutledge is clearly content with his lot. Not […]

Month: April 2023

Live Review: Saturday at Ramblin’ Roots Revue, Bucks Students’ Union, High Wycombe – 15th April 2023

Josh Ritter “Spectral Lines”

AUK Shortcuts April 2023: Lucy Farrell, Joe Forkan, White Rose Motor Oil, Burning Ferns, Michael Meeking, Mellisa Ruth, Lisa/Liza, The Kirals, Erika Olsen, Duncan Phillips and Innes Wilson’s Freightliner

Track Premiere: Kazimi “River Run”

Video: Dean Owens “Mother Road”

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”

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