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
  • [ April 24, 2026 ] Taj Mahal “Wild About My Lovin'” – Tracks
  • [ April 24, 2026 ] Video Premiere: Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock “Summer Rain” Videos
  • [ April 23, 2026 ] Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs Essentials
  • [ April 23, 2026 ] José González “Against The Dying Of The Light” Album Reviews
  • [ April 23, 2026 ] Bedouine’s new album “Neon Summer Skin” out in June News
Home2023

Year: 2023

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Dixie Chicks “Taking The Long Way”

June 22, 2023 Peter Churchill 2
Eight years separate the 1998 Dixie Chicks release ‘Wide Open Spaces’, the group’s first album to feature Natalie Maines on lead vocals, and ‘Taking The Long Way’, the first album to follow the infamous 2003 Shepherd’s […]
artwork for Nicholas Jamerson album "Peace Mountain"
Album Reviews

Nicholas Jamerson “Peace Mountain”

June 22, 2023 John Jenkins 0
A very good country and Appalachian album with great songs and excellent vocals throughout. This is an assured album – 14 songs and an additional 3 tracks of Dialogue. The dialogue tracks may not satisfy those […]
News

Old Crow Medicine Show announce new album “Jubilee”

June 22, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
Watch the video for the first single below. Old Crow Medicine Show, or OCMS if you’re in a hurry, have announced the release of their new album ‘Jubilee’ which lands in the UK on 25th August […]
Tracks

Anna Tivel “The Bell” – gorgeous gorgeous acoustic single

June 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Anna Tivel’s next release is on Mama Bird Recording Co. and will be out on August 18th.  It is called ‘Outsiders (Live in a Living Room)‘ and is an acoustic companion to her blissfully perfect ‘Outsiders‘.  […]
Videos

Video: Cole Gallagher “Lines in the Sky”

June 22, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Here is the latest single from Pasadena-based singer-songwriter Cole Gallagher.  ‘Lines in the Sky’ is the robust, dynamic follow-up to the well-received ‘Chatting Through Steel’, which was a powerful song featuring gritty vocals from David Hidalgo […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 201 202 203 … 397 »

Recent Forum Posts

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

    @joe-nathan A much overlooked album

    By Martin Johnson , 1 day ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What Are You Reading?

    Sam Phillips: The Man Who Invented Rock ‘n’ Roll by Pet...

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    The Moonlighters Rush Hour

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • RE: London Gigs Next Week

    I'm late to the party, I know, but recently, when on a ...

    By durks , 2 days ago

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

    Hannah White - Sweet Revolution

    By Ian C Rothery , 2 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    drivin n cryin - Crushing Flowers

    By Joe Nathan , 2 days ago

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

    Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum - Salute to Songw...

    By Peter Thompson , 3 days ago

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

    Kacey Musgraves - Same Trailer Different Park (vinyl)

    By Peter Thompson , 3 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    John Prine - Bruised Orange

    By Joe Nathan , 3 days ago

our latest posts

Taj Mahal “Wild About My Lovin'” –

Tracks
April 24, 2026 0

Video Premiere: Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock “Summer Rain”

Videos
April 24, 2026 0
Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alynda Segarra 3rd May 2014

Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs

Essentials
April 23, 2026 0

José González “Against The Dying Of The Light”

Album Reviews
April 23, 2026 0
Bedouine

Bedouine’s new album “Neon Summer Skin” out in June

News
April 23, 2026 0
Tracks

Taj Mahal “Wild About My Lovin'” –

April 24, 2026 0
And so we reach the end of all star week here at the Tracks section of Americana UK – did we not mention that it’s all star week at Tracks?  We figured you’d notice. Taj Mahal’s […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock “Summer Rain”

April 24, 2026 0
The gorgeous Summer Rain is the latest single from folk duo Jo Bartlett and Neil Haydock. There is the perfect confluence of three elements: wistful, yearning music; sensitive, narrative lyrics; and a visual, which is steeped […]
Hurray for the Riff Raff - Alynda Segarra 3rd May 2014
Essentials

Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs

April 23, 2026 0
In a nod to Woody Guthrie, a 2014 American Songwriter magazine cover featured Hurray For The Riff Raff with the strapline, “Bound for Glory”. I’m not sure how the author of that article defined glory, yet […]

  • Taj Mahal “Wild About My Lovin'” –
  • Video Premiere: Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock “Summer Rain”
  • Essentials: The Top 10 Hurray For The Riff Raff Songs
  • José González “Against The Dying Of The Light”
  • Bedouine’s new album “Neon Summer Skin” out in June
  • Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him
  • Live Review: The Ramblin’ Roots Revue 2026, New Buckinghamshire University – 10th-12th April 2026
  • Rae Spoon “Assigned Country Singer At Birth”
  • Red Rooster crows no more
  • Deer Tick “Everything Born” – goes through changes
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
  • Ken: Domino is doing a tea-time set at the Dukes of Highgate on Saturday, well-timed for anyone going to the Union…
  • April: Where to buy this album
  • April: Where to Nix this?

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

April 23, 2026 0
At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
Interviews

Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

You may have missed…

Album Reviews

Joe Normal “Public Works”

April 17, 2023 0
Not so much Heartland Rock as Heartland Pop. This is a strange album. A set of songs with decidedly blue collar, all hail the Working Man lyrics, set to a sort of Springsteen Lite backing. It […]
Tracks

Traveller “Traveller” – Listen

October 25, 2019 0
This new and moody song from Scottish band Traveller stalks lonely streets in search of comfort and a grain of human feeling.  It see’s the trio in perhaps their most Americana mood yet – it’s the […]
Features

Songs for the apocalypse: Peter Bruntnell “Black Aces”

October 30, 2019 0
Years ago, 17 in fact, I put on an event in what was then the Masque venue in Liverpool called “Americana One” celebrating the fact that this little website (and it was little back then) was […]

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