May 2023 – Page 13 – Americana UK

Melissa Carper to finally tour UK this Summer

May 22, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

Singer-songwriter and upright bassist Melissa Carper has announced a short UK tour with four dates starting in Glasgow in mid-June. The delayed tour promotes her most recent album ‘Ramblin’ Soul‘ which came out last year. Reviewer Tim Martin […]

Bob Dylan “Shadow Kingdom”

May 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Dylan travels in time and space to an imagined European jazz club – reinvention ensues. The Bootleg series aside, where the occasional historic or archive recording has featured, Bob Dylan is not famed for the number […]

Son Volt “Sometimes You’ve Got To Stop Chasing Rainbows” – grasp the nettle of reality, man

May 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Son Volt (the band that Wilco could have been) have a new album ‘Day Of The Doug’, coming out June 16th via Transmit Sound/Thirty Tigers. It’s a themed album of carefully chosen covers celebrating the musical […]

Video: Tommy Prine “Mirror and a Kitchen Sink”

May 22, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

There’s more than a little punk in the latest single from Tommy Prine. It’s raw and full of energy, with a driving rhythm and sing-along, shout-along chorus. Above all, Prine displays an ear for a great, […]

Something for the weekend: The Smiths “The Boy with the Thorn in his Side”

May 19, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and while we tend to swerve paying a blind bit of notice to Morrisey these days, the news that Smiths bassist Andy Rourke has died is […]

Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

August 7, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm. We leave you dear reader with a new song from Nate Amos aka This […]

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0

At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

August 7, 2026 0

A powerful message that’s relayed with the kind of vigour and skill needed to make people sit up and listen. “In his oval room, in his rockin’ chair / He’s the president, but I don’t care […]

Month: May 2023

Melissa Carper to finally tour UK this Summer

Bob Dylan “Shadow Kingdom”

Son Volt “Sometimes You’ve Got To Stop Chasing Rainbows” – grasp the nettle of reality, man

Video: Tommy Prine “Mirror and a Kitchen Sink”

Something for the weekend: The Smiths “The Boy with the Thorn in his Side”

Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012

The Wild High “Listen to The Wild High”