Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ May 8, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: Lambchop featuring Justin Vernon “Weakened” Tracks
  • [ May 8, 2026 ] Cut Throat Finches “High Horse” Album Reviews
  • [ May 8, 2026 ] Zoh Amba to tour Europe and UK in autumn 2026 News
  • [ May 8, 2026 ] Joshua Ray Walker “Ain’t Dead Yet” Album Reviews
  • [ May 8, 2026 ] Book Review: Tom Piazza “Living In The Present With John Prine” Book Reviews
Home2023June

Month: June 2023

Tracks

Track Premiere: Laura Zarougian: “Back To Me”

June 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1
Are you ready, dear loyal listener, to hear a new voice that we guarantee you that you’re going to love?  Laura Zarougian’s sound is rather special – she grew up on the coast of the Atlantic […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Eli Gardiner “Black Crow”

June 28, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the latest release from Minnesota-based singer-songwriter Eli Gardiner.  ‘Black Crow’ is a moody piece that grows, emerging slowly and steadily, layer by instrumental layer, leaving us feeling immersed in the soundscape Gardiner and his band […]
Interviews

Interview: Pete Anderson on designing guitars and sharing his experience as a musician producer

June 27, 2023 Martin Johnson 0
A renowned country guitar picker and producer who likes a bit of Chet, Frank, and Wes on the side. Pete Anderson was able to bring the right sound to Dwight Yoakam’s voice and songs when they […]
Cover art for Joelton Mayfield's debut EP
Album Reviews

Joelton Mayfield “I Hope You Make It” EP

June 27, 2023 FredArnold 1
Sensitive songwriting and fine tunes from this Texan newcomer’s debut EP. Mayfield is a young man from Marble Falls, Texas (not quite 20 at the time of release) and he has talent. He won a songwriting […]
Live Reviews

Review – Black Deer Festival 2023: Britain’s premier Americana event continues to grow

June 27, 2023 Clint West 5
This year’s Black Deer was the fourth since it began in 2018 with an enforced break in 2020 and 2021 due to the pandemic. It seems a good time then, to take stock and reflect on […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 5 6 7 … 37 »

Recent Forum Posts

  • RE: Versions!

    @paul-villers Those versions keep coming

    By Martin Johnson , 4 hours ago

  • Paul Villers

    RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...

    By Paul Villers , 8 hours ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive

    By Peter Thompson , 23 hours ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...

    By Jonathan Hincks , 2 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)

    By Peter Thompson , 3 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...

    By Peter Thompson , 5 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    @andyshort Yes, it makes a refreshing change from artis...

    By Peter Thompson , 6 days ago

  • RE: My First Record Player

    I had a Rotel amp and turntable too until the buttons s...

    By Andy Short , 1 week ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    @peterthompson When Ryan Adams string breaks during Bar...

    By Andy Short , 1 week ago

our latest posts

Something for the weekend: Lambchop featuring Justin Vernon “Weakened”

Tracks
May 8, 2026 1
Artwork for Cut Throat Finches album "High Horse"

Cut Throat Finches “High Horse”

Album Reviews
May 8, 2026 0
Zoh Amba

Zoh Amba to tour Europe and UK in autumn 2026

News
May 8, 2026 0
Cover art for Joshua Ray Waller "Ain't Dead Yet" album review

Joshua Ray Walker “Ain’t Dead Yet”

Album Reviews
May 8, 2026 0
Cover art for Tom Piazza book "Living In The Present With John Prine"

Book Review: Tom Piazza “Living In The Present With John Prine”

Book Reviews
May 8, 2026 0
Tracks

Something for the weekend: Lambchop featuring Justin Vernon “Weakened”

May 8, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a brand new track from Kurt Wagner’s Lambchop outfit who have announced details of their new album Punching The Clown which […]
Artwork for Cut Throat Finches album "High Horse"
Album Reviews

Cut Throat Finches “High Horse”

May 8, 2026 0
The first great, breezy, summer “pop” record is here, from a self-described “Americanish” band with an old-country soul. Much like their previous efforts, High Horse, by Cowtown’s Cut Throat Finches, defies easy categorisation. Is it a […]
Zoh Amba
News

Zoh Amba to tour Europe and UK in autumn 2026

May 8, 2026 0
Zoh Amba, who previously announced their Matador debut album, Eyes Full, which is out on 5th June 2026, has shared details of a run of UK and European tour dates. The European leg kicks off on […]

  • Something for the weekend: Lambchop featuring Justin Vernon “Weakened”
  • Cut Throat Finches “High Horse”
  • Zoh Amba to tour Europe and UK in autumn 2026
  • Joshua Ray Walker “Ain’t Dead Yet”
  • Book Review: Tom Piazza “Living In The Present With John Prine”
  • Classic Clips: Billy Bragg, Hank Wangford and Brendan Croker “Sin City” – Live on the Whistle Test, Rock Around the Clock, 21st September 1986
  • Trippers & Askers “Tried To Do’s”
  • Make Americana Great Again: Deus Ex Musica
  • The Latest AUK Podcast is now available featuring UNCUT legend Allan Jones on all things Americana and beyond
  • Live Review: Brown Horse + Elanor Moss, St Stephen’s Church, Ipswich – 18th April 2026
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Andrew Frolish: Really early notice! The info’ I have is that it’s 2027.
  • Michael O'Driscoll: After the misstep of The Bible, this sounds like a feturn to peak Lambchop. As always with Kurt, a radical…
  • Alan Peatfield: Can you clarify for me please Andrew. You mention the new album is due August 2027. Should that be 2026??…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0
Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

April 28, 2026 0
Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
Interviews

Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0
David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

You may have missed…

Tracks

Something for the weekend: The Milk Carton Kids “When You’re Gone”

December 2, 2022 0
Well that’s it for another week dear reader. I started writing this post and then realised my beloved colleague Jon Aird had already started writing a piece on it. So over to you Jon… To say […]
Videos

Video: Songs From Dan “The Biggest Bastard Who Ever Rode The West”

January 16, 2018 0
This is absolutely lovely. Originally from Australia and resident of the Netherlands since 1993, Dan Tuffy aka Songs From Dan was a founding member of popular psychedelic/folk cult group Wild Pumpkins at Midnight who would later become […]
Features

For the Sake of the Song: Bill Fay “Filled With Wonder Once Again”

July 7, 2025 0
Some voices arrive like a hand on your shoulder. Bill Fay’s is one of them. “I had near/forgotten everything”, Fay sings, opening the song not with a confession, but with a kind of quiet exhale. ‘Filled […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool