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Sounds from beyond the Shed 206 “The Edge of the World”

October 31, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
So, as previewed last week, I spent the weekend at Boia in St Davids (no apostrophe, Oliver) and what a joyful and immensely satisfying thing it was. Lots and lots of music in small venues performed […]
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Rodney Crowell announces first UK tour in over a decade

October 31, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Legendary singer-songwriter Rodney Crowell will return to the international stage in spring 2026 for a run of UK and European headline shows, including a stop at London’s Union Chapel on Sunday 27th April. The tour marks […]
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Stephen Simmons “Grandpa’s Jacket” – welcome to the show

October 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1
There is an unnamed, but well stocked, subgenre of music in general which reflects on the toll that the troubadour life takes, and ‘Grandpa’s Jacket‘ by Stephen Simmons is well within that subgenre.  There’s a weariness […]
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Video: Juana Everett “One Million Dollars”

October 31, 2025 Andrew Frolish 1
Madrid-born singer-songwriter Juana Everett has released ‘One Million Dollars’, an atmospheric new single and accompanying video. With direction and photography from María Salto and Luis Montero Rueda, this is a cinematic piece of filmmaking. Likewise, the […]
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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Fred Arnold

October 30, 2025 FredArnold 2
It is interesting how this Feature is developing as writers use different criteria for their choices, and the songs that a generic Feature such as this would normally produce are not necessarily those iconic titles that […]

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Final album from the late Tucker Zimmerman will be released in June 2026

March 17, 2026 0
The tragic deaths of Tucker Zimmerman and Marie-Claire, his wife of almost 60 years, in a house fire at their home near Liege, Belgium, earlier this year, occurred not long after Zimmerman’s music had been brought […]
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Hell in a Handcart – a new column from AUK’s Paul Villers

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A new occasional series in which Paul Villers (Americana UK’s Community Forums Editor) curates the ideas, opinions and observations in the political sphere relevant to us all. “In a time of deceit, telling the truth is […]
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Chris Williams And Kid Reverie “Haunt Me” – hanging around, spectrally

March 17, 2026 0
Chris Williams and Steve Varney (also known as Kid Reverie) made their musical connection in 2020 over that most common of shared loves – the love of the banjo.  It started out as informal lessons, and […]

  • Final album from the late Tucker Zimmerman will be released in June 2026
  • Hell in a Handcart – a new column from AUK’s Paul Villers
  • Chris Williams And Kid Reverie “Haunt Me” – hanging around, spectrally
  • Video: Nils & Amy Lofgren “No Kings, No Hate, No Fear” – music is our planet’s Sacred Weapon
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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

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

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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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Something for the weekend: Mariel Buckley “Vending Machines”

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Dawn Landes “The Liberated Woman’s Songbook”

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Landes breathes new life into eleven songs that trace the women’s rights movement through the ages for a contemporary audience. Dawn Landes belongs to that complexing group of artists that have never quite achieved the commercial […]
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The Dust-Ups “The Dust-Ups”

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