2023 – Page 259 – Americana UK

Video: Ben Hemming “The Devil’s Dance”

May 5, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the latest single from London-based blues singer-songwriter Ben Hemming. The well-shot video for ‘The Devil’s Dance’ finds Hemming walking and dancing through city streets at night while he sings of loss disillusionment and giving up […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Harry Chapin songs

May 4, 2023 Alan Fitter 7

It’s now nearly 42 years since Harold Forster Chapin died in a horrific car crash on the Long Island Expressway when his tiny 1975 Volkswagen Rabbit collided with an enormous semi-trailer truck. Better known of course […]

Rufus Wainwright “Harvest” – from WBS

May 4, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

WBS – that’s Wainwright, Bird and Stills, and in this incidence the Stills is Chris Stills. The Bird is Andrew Bird, no exciting Byrd connection there but hey, you can’t have everything. And Rufus Wainwright doesn’t […]

Henke Wermelin and His New Love “Spitting Distance”

May 4, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Swedish Americana with a Gothic twist that only occasionally hits the mark. Opening with the suitably dark ‘Bring Me My Shotgun’ Wermelin throws the entire kitchen and then the sink at delivering a rumbling, Crampsy rocker […]

The First Time: Jonathan Smith – The Pogues, Cornwall Coliseum, St Austell, 1990

May 4, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

My love for music kicked in around 1978, and yet it was another 12 years before my first ‘big’ gig experience. This was mainly due to a combination of growing up in West Cornwall, and having […]

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

June 30, 2026 0

On Singing Machine, Microphone, the final track on David Borné’s 2023 debut Genesis, he sings of the unbridled, innocent joy of making music during childhood for nothing but the pure love of it. It’s a soaring […]

Ian Prowse “No Names”

June 30, 2026 0

Impassioned energy and emotionally charged politics from Merseyside luminary. Ian Prowse has been making music for more than thirty years, first with indie band Pele, then forming the band Amsterdam in 1999, and now releasing albums […]

New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

June 30, 2026 0

Occasionally, we provide a compendium of recently announced live shows, so here are three sets of tour dates that came our way in the last few days. Gaslight Anthem main man, Brian Fallon, who recently led […]

Year: 2023

Video: Ben Hemming “The Devil’s Dance”

Essentials: The Top 10 Harry Chapin songs

Rufus Wainwright “Harvest” – from WBS

Henke Wermelin and His New Love “Spitting Distance”

The First Time: Jonathan Smith – The Pogues, Cornwall Coliseum, St Austell, 1990

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

Ian Prowse “No Names”

New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Dillon Warnek

Preview: Rose’s Pawn Shop selling great gigs for the next couple of weeks