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Peaceful Faces “Doin’ It Wrong” – on a daily basis

June 18, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Peaceful Faces – the performance moniker of multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Tree Palmedo, who has also worked with Fleet Foxes as a trumpeter.   Here, on a song from Peaceful Faces’ recently released third album “Without a Single Fight“, […]
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Kathleen Edwards to release new album “Billionaire” in late summer 2025

June 18, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
The much-admired singer-songwriter Kathleen Edwards returns with her new album, “Billionaire”, on 22nd August 2025 via Dualtone Records. Evoking her debut, “Failer”, the new 10-song album is full of Edwards’ lyrical sharpness and unflinching observations and […]
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Video: Rodney Crowell “Taking Flight” (Feat. Ashley McBryde)

June 18, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
The latest single from Rodney Crowell is a co-write with Ashley McBryde, who also delivers a powerful vocal performance alongside the legendary singer-songwriter. One of the song’s highlights is a superb, dynamic guitar solo from Tyler […]
Fisherman's Friends
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Fisherman’s Friends to host new festival in Cornwall in May 2026

June 17, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
The desire to hold a special gathering close to home in Cornwall has been on the Fisherman’s Friends’ minds for some time. While still holding down their day jobs, the group regularly sell out venues across […]
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Brayden Baird and the Once in a Lifetime Band “Lord, Why Do You Do These Things To Me?”

June 17, 2025 Andy Short 0
Anti-folk album of grief, anger and hope. Brooklyn-based singer has taken time away from the production desk and joined with the Once in a Lifetime Band to bring us a new set of songs. “Lord, Why […]

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Sufjan Stevens at Celebrate Brooklyn 2011
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Sufjan Stevens

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The Americana UK archives are not exactly rammed with Sufjan Stevens content. Andrew Frolish selected the sublime John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for his Chain Gang feature in 2022 (here). Otherwise, there are a few ‘guest appearance’ […]
Artwork for Nive Nielsen and The Deer Children's album "My Mother's Name"
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Nive Nielsen and The Deer Children “My Mother’s Name”

September 30, 2026 0
Wandering songwriter returns with first album in a decade: lessons in melodic self-definition ensue. “I don’t plan, and I don’t plan to stop”. The opening line to the first and title track of My Mother’s Name […]
Cover art for David Banks album "All The Dreams We Left Behind"
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David Banks “All The Dreams We Left Behind”

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Former Whybirds guitarist and co-writer delivers a sophomore album replete with anthemic songs infused with arena rock. It is now over seven years since David Banks released his debut album, Until The End, which saw the […]

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  • David Banks “All The Dreams We Left Behind”
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  • Folk Tracks Roundup – September 2026
  • Live Review: Tessa Rose Jackson + Chloe Foy, St Pancras Old Church, London – 16th September 2026
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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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 […]

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Gregory Alan Isakov “Evening Machines” (Dualtone, 2018)

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Gregory Alan Isakov is the kind of artist of whom -if one were not a devoted follower – there would only be a vague awareness without quite knowing why. The distinctive name helps, but it’s his […]
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The top ten Americana duets

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In these trying times we can think of nothing better here at AUK than knocking out Top Ten’s of this, that and the other. Indeed every man and his wife (or every wife and her husband […]
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This website kills fascists – Vote for hope today

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Today dear reader is one of the most important days for this country that we’ve faced in decades, certainly since 1979. I wrote a piece a couple of years ago on the day of 2017’s general […]

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