2024 – Page 46 – Americana UK

Video: Christy Moore “Boy in The Wild”

November 13, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

Christy Moore’s new single, ‘Boy in The Wild’, is a beautiful reflection on the relationship between a father and his son. Featuring Christy’s own son, Andy, on backing vocals, it’s an open-hearted, deeply-affecting song that resonates […]

Video Interview: Jett Holden on “The Phoenix”

November 12, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

How Black Opry provided a second opportunity to follow his music career dream. Black Opry has been generating a lot of media interest lately as it attempts to build a network and community to support black […]

artwork for Laura Marling album "Patterns In Repeat"

Laura Marling “Patterns In Repeat”

November 12, 2024 Graeme Tait 0

Marling’s eighth studio album is a deceptively simplistic offering that permeates a sense of contentment throughout. Laura Marling began work on “Pattern In Repeat”, shortly after the birth of her daughter, and first child, back in […]

Cock-A-Doodle-Do! Red Rooster announces first tranche of acts at revered annual festival for 2025

November 12, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Euston Hall near Thetford is the gorgeous location for the annual Red Rooster festival and it’s usually a doozy. Next year’s early indications would suggest that for 29th to the 31st of May 2025 it’s more […]

Two Men in a Mazda: Perspectives on Wesley Stace’s 2024 Tour of the UK – Part 2

November 12, 2024 Darren Lumbroso 4

In May 2024, I spent two and half weeks with one of my favourite singer song writers, Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding), on his first UK tour for some time. These two articles provide some […]

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

September 24, 2026 0

A collection of rootsier tunes ideal for shuffle or playlist. Anyone who has attended gigs of a rootsier persuasion around Manchester and the northwest in recent years will almost certainly have come across the hard-working and […]

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

September 24, 2026 0

Stephen Eyre is singer and guitarist with South Oxfordshire band Only The Brave. Our Graeme Tait reviewed their debut EP and described them as a band with a bright future in his February EP roundup. Stephen […]

Vox Continental: September 2026

September 24, 2026 0

With the long, hot summer finally fading, it seems like a lot of European artists are keen to get out on tour. Oakland Rain are a Norwegian folk and Americana duo, made up of twin sisters, […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]

Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1

As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0

Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

Album Reviews

Michael McArthur “Oh Sedona”/”How to Fall in Love” (Independent, 2020)

August 3, 2020 0

With release dates that are only weeks apart, Michael McArthur has conjured up a mighty fine pair of acoustic EPs and luckily for the reviewer who has to squeeze this duo into a single review, both […]

Album Reviews

Son Volt “Union” (Transmit Sound, 2019)

April 11, 2019 0

While Jay Farrar might be considered as being pretty grounded when it comes to singing about familiar folk themes he’s never been a political writer. On ‘Union’ that changes as he here turns to topical concerns, […]

Features

Discovering… Neil Young

July 16, 2021 3

Quite liking Neil Young is a strange position find yourself in. He usually elicits much stronger feelings than that. By way of example, the first time I met one of my AUK colleagues he was dressed […]

Year: 2024

Video: Christy Moore “Boy in The Wild”

Video Interview: Jett Holden on “The Phoenix”

Laura Marling “Patterns In Repeat”

Cock-A-Doodle-Do! Red Rooster announces first tranche of acts at revered annual festival for 2025

Two Men in a Mazda: Perspectives on Wesley Stace’s 2024 Tour of the UK – Part 2

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

Vox Continental: September 2026

Family Stereo “Remedy” – heartbreak beckons

Video Premiere: Elli de Mon “Strange Fruit”