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Josh Ritter announces new album “I Believe In You, My Honeydew”

June 11, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1
AUK favourite songwriter, musician, artist and best-selling author Josh Ritter will release his new album “I Believe In You, My Honeydew” on September 12th via Thirty Tigers, and he’s released the first track from it ‘You […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: The Counting Crows

June 11, 2025 Andy Short 2
This feature is the equivalent of those items on social media. The ones where you can only pick one artist to see live or listen to one album forever. They always include Queen, Bowie and Prince, […]
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Jess Kerber “From Way Down Here”

June 11, 2025 Rick Thorn 0
A reflective album looking back on discovery, where everything felt new and beautiful. “From Way Down Here” is Louisiana-born, Nashville-based Jess Kerber’s debut album. It is a very engaging and charming set of songs that is, […]
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Video Premiere: Julian Taylor “Dedication”

June 11, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
What a pleasure it is for Americana UK to premiere the video for the latest single from good friend of the site, Julian Taylor.  It’s taken from the upcoming album, strongly hinted at by Julian here, […]
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Live Review: Ferris & Sylvester + Oli McCracken, Spiritual Bar, London – 27th May 2025

June 11, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Regular AUK readers will already be familiar with Ferris & Sylvester and their distinctive blend of blues, folk and Americana. Having won multiple awards, including UK Album Of The Year at the UK Americana Awards 2023 […]

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Various Artists “Let’s Go Dancing: Stopped a Freight Train with a Grain of Sand”

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Latest in 100-Song Living Tribute Doesn’t Disappoint. Let’s Go Dancing started life as a 60th birthday surprise video for Drivin N Cryin frontman Kevin Kinney, made during lockdown. Since then, it has merged into a 100-song […]
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I think we all know that times are hard, in virtually all respects, but financially, things have been tough for a long while. Every time it looks like there might be some respite, along comes another […]
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Great Willow “Age Of Reason” – Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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