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
  • [ March 24, 2026 ] Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light” Album Reviews
  • [ March 24, 2026 ] Live Review: Beans On Toast + Ruth Lyon + Bassie Gracie, Hare & Hounds, Birmingham – 11th March 2026 Live Reviews
  • [ March 24, 2026 ] The Montvales “Path Of Totality” Album Reviews
  • [ March 24, 2026 ] Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album News
  • [ March 24, 2026 ] Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie” Album Reviews
Home2024January

Month: January 2024

Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Herb Pedersen (with Chris Hillman and John Jorgenson) “Wait a Minute” – Live at Freight and Salvage, Berkeley 2017

January 26, 2024 FredArnold 0
To try and describe the musical contribution of Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen to the various genres of music that they have encompassed or the number of artists that they have played with over the last […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 129 “She’s leaving home… bye bye”

January 26, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
This week for the second time in her life my daughter left home… properly. This time she’s 28! Now I know that this is not exceptional these days but it bloody well should be. I’m fairly […]
News

2024 AMAUK Awards winners announced

January 26, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0
The winners of the UK Americana Awards 2024 were revealed last night in a glittering ceremony at Hackney Church, London. Acclaimed singer-songwriters and musicians Allison Russell and Michele Stodart scooped two awards each: Russell for International […]
Tracks

Lana Nauphal “Is It Raining In California?” – the rain it rains most every day

January 26, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
What is it about rain?  For creatures that are 90% water we do seem to have a bit of a downer on water when it falls as droplets under gravity.  It’s often a metaphor for “things […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Frank Viele “Mountains We Can Climb”

January 26, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out the new video from Frank Viele, recent winner of Act of the Year at the New England Music Awards 2023.  The first Connecticut-artist to receive this honour, Viele had a busy 2023, releasing four […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 5 6 7 … 27 »

Recent Forum Posts

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

    Rosanne Cash - The River & the Thread (vinyl) Jes...

    By Peter Thompson , 5 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Drive-By Truckers - Pizza Deliverance

    By Joe Nathan , 5 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Guy Clark - Keepers

    By Joe Nathan , 9 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Jerry Jeff Walker - Cowboy Boots and Bathin’ Suits

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Jimmy Buffett - A1A

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Chris Knight - Chris Knight

    By Joe Nathan , 3 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever

    By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Old 97s - Too Far to Care

    By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi

    By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago

our latest posts

Album cover artwork for Luke Winslow-King "Coast of Light"

Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

Album Reviews
March 24, 2026 0

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

Live Reviews
March 24, 2026 0
artwork for The Montvales album "Path Of Totality"

The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

Album Reviews
March 24, 2026 0

Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album

News
March 24, 2026 0
Art work for Andy Thomas album "Highway Junkie"

Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie”

Album Reviews
March 24, 2026 0
Album cover artwork for Luke Winslow-King "Coast of Light"
Album Reviews

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

March 24, 2026 0
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 […]
artwork for The Montvales album "Path Of Totality"
Album Reviews

The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

March 24, 2026 0
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 […]

  • Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”
  • 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
  • Video Premiere: Dean Owens “Face The Storm (The Buffalo)”
  • Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup
  • Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”
  • For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”
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
  • Keith Hughes: Those were the days mid 2000’s. Marah killed it every night. Never cruised. Thanks to many SXSW trips and uk…
  • Mike Ritchie: The range of styles makes for an intriguing collection. One of the best releases of 2026 so far.
  • Paul Kerr: Andy's review is here... https://americana-uk.com/various-artists-i-will-swim-to-you-a-tribute-to-jason-molina

Latest interviews

Interviews

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 […]

You may have missed…

Features

Studio Life: Kerri Watt

April 17, 2020 0
You may have seen Kerri Watt performing at various festivals, including Glastonbury, Celtic Connections and the Cambridge Folk Festival.  You may have heard her on Bob Harris’s BBC Radio 2 show.  You may have seen her […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Teni Rane “Small Steps”

July 22, 2024 0
Be absorbed by the latest single from Teni Rane.  ‘Small Steps’ is a song of resilience and self-belief, a quiet anthem for everyone who needs to value and love themselves a little more.  Teni sings: “With […]
Album Reviews

Neko Case “Neon Grey Midnight Green”

October 6, 2025 0
After an eight year absence Neko Case returns with a richly textured album. In the wake of her harrowing and well reviewed book “The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You: A Memoir” Neko Case delivers […]

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