February 2025 – Americana UK

Something for the weekend: Alison Krauss & Union Station “Granite Mills”

February 28, 2025 Mark Whitfield 2

Well that’s it from us for this week, Fridays have basically become the most exciting day of the week because you get a new episode of Severance. It’s given us some ideas for our writing team, […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: The Rough & Tumble

February 28, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler are a musical duo recording under the name the Rough & Tumble. They declined to identify which one was rough and which one tumble, but I have my suspicions. Their latest […]

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Classic Clips: Ray Wylie Hubbard “Count My Blessings” at The Shed, Maryville, Tennessee, 2012

February 28, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

What Oklahoma troubadour Ray Wylie Hubbard calls a “little ditty” is country blues at its finest. On an unseasonably hot September evening in Tennessee, Ray Wylie Hubbard was not showing any signs of slowing down at […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 174 – “A Point of View”

February 28, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 4

As I write this week’s column, I can feel the excitement beginning to well up inside. I’m going to a gig tonight. It often seems incredible to me that after 45 years of regular gig attendance, […]

UK-Country Music Association launches with a promise

February 28, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

“To Unite, Promote and Develop UK Country Music” As country music has its moment a new organisation has been founded to promote the UK’s interests. The UK-CMA launches on 10th March 2025 as a membership umbrella […]