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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 […]
News

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 […]
Tracks

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 […]
Videos

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 […]
Features

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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Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”

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Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September

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Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

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There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday

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Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981

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Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”

July 31, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from case/lang/veirs who have this week shared their cover of Patti Smith’s track People Have The Power which […]
News

Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September

July 31, 2026 0
London-based singer-songwriter Jack Browning will release his sophomore album, Painted Skies, on September 16th via Too Fine Records. The twelve-song collection follows Browning’s signing to the Nashville label earlier this year and arrives after two years […]
Features

Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

July 31, 2026 0
The next Americana Story comes from one of our own. Rick Bayles escaped the UK to live in the Dordogne region of France, and from there he reports back through his monthly Vox Continental column, sharing […]

  • Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”
  • Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September
  • Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”
  • There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday
  • Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981
  • Jason McNiff “Ten Blue Songs”
  • Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 3rd-5th July 2026
  • Vox Continental: July 2026
  • The latest Americana UK podcast now available featuring Haylie Davis and Leeroy Stagger
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Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
Interviews

Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Tracks

Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore “Borderland” – On the border

February 21, 2023 0
This we like, the song of course, but also this part of the story behind the release of this new single by Dave Alvin & Jimmie Dale Gilmore – ‘Borderland’ was recorded  on the duo’s day […]
News

Ron Sexsmith announces pair of 60th birthday UK shows

May 16, 2024 0
“I’m definitely going to have the brakes on all year because I don’t want 60 to come too fast, haha, “ said Ron Sexsmith when interviewed by AUK’s Martin Johnson in early 2023. Now, after sixty […]
Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Kate & Anna McGarrigle “Kate & Anna McGarrigle”

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I first got to see Kate and Anna McGarrigle live at the New Victoria Theatre on February 19th 1977 when they had just released their debut album, the eponymous ‘Kate & Anna McGarrigle’ and were about […]

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