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Video: The Hanging Stars “Let Me Dream of You”

December 21, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
The Hanging Stars finish the year with this epic-sounding song.  Full of thudding drums and sweeping guitar, ‘Let Me Dream of You’ soars, like a dream flying into the cosmos.  There are gorgeous four-part harmonies and […]
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Americana UK’s Top 20 Albums of 2023: Part One, 20-11

December 20, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1
Here at AUK Towers, like all loving families, we fight – a lot – over who has used the last of the milk, left the washing up in the sink, accidentally locked the cat in the […]
Features

More People Really Should Know About: Richard Shindell

December 20, 2023 Rick Thorn 2
‘13 Songs You May or May Not Have Heard Before’ is the wonderfully modest name of Richard Shindell’s best of album released in 2011. It beautifully demonstrates his attitude towards fame or the trappings of success. […]
Album Reviews

Andrew Weiss and Friends “Beverly Hills, Thanksgiving Day”

December 20, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0
Deep thoughts with deft turns of phrase all to a warm West Coast sound. Amid the gloom under relentlessly grey skies as the year draws to a close a glimmer of sunshine appears from Long Island […]
Features

Pump Up The Volume – A Year of Tracks

December 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, another year steams away down the Americana UK Tracks, and it’s therefore time to do the annual compare and contrast in which we find just which songs you enjoyed each month dear readers, and compare […]

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Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

March 24, 2026 0
An impressive blues-influenced mixture of laid-back and edgier numbers. Coast of Light is Luke Winslow-King’s ninth album after having debuted with Luke Winslow-King in 2008. It is a bit of an outlier from many of the […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026

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The night opened with Bassie Gracie, a bold spoken word poet grounded in hope, proclaiming that making art can be the remedy to worry. This Celtic-and-proud waif delivered rhythmic anti-racism with barely veiled anger at the […]
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The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

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Folk-tinged harmonies and sophisticated indie-pop for turbulent times. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson are originally from Knoxville, Tennessee – together they make up The Montvales. During their middle school years, the duo started out by busking […]

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  • Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026
  • The Montvales “Path Of Totality”
  • Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album
  • Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie”
  • Tony Trischka And Billy Strings “Gentle On My Mind” – the ever calming balm of banjo
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Lolly Lee “Lolly Lee”

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Self-titled solo release from Alabama native has echoes of fellow Alabama native Lucinda Williams, with fine storytelling lyrics at its heart. Lolly Lee is a new name to the UK Americana scene, with this her self-titled […]
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Something for the weekend: Josh Ritter & The Royal City Band “The Goonies ‘R’ Good Enough”

September 15, 2023 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, and we leave you with a new track out today from the great Josh Ritter, a cover of the Cyndi Lauper classic ‘The Goonies ‘R’ Good […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Static Roots Festival, Oberhausen, Germany – 7th-8th July 2023

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Euro-Americana lives – in Germany! Fans came from many countries in Europe to enjoy this mini festival, with a great line-up of performers. You will want to know a little bit a about the artists that […]

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