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Album Reviews

Songdog “Mirabilla Mundi”

April 11, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
Aging successfully requires the right kind of reminiscing. Welsh songwriter Lyndon Morgans’ ninth album is back to being Songdog and returning to some familiar themes, such as the passing of time, lost love, nostalgia and death. […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Hattie Whitehead + Tessa Rose Jackson + Edward Randell, St Pancras Old Church, London – 3rd April 2025

April 11, 2025 David Chalfen 0
The venue is always inspiring, with its design and operation as a fully functioning church set in a surprisingly green and peaceful enclave just minutes from St Pancras station and amidst the gritty inner-city locale of […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Steve Earle and the Del McCoury Band “Carrie Brown” – Late Night with Conan O’Brien, 1999

April 11, 2025 Jonathan Smith 1
There are many artists who need no introduction to the Americana UK audience, but Steve Earle probably heads the list. However, Classic Clips gives us the opportunity to reflect on perhaps one of his most completely […]
I'm With Her
Videos

Video: I’m With Her “Find My Way to You”

April 11, 2025 Ed Donnelly 0
Supergroup I’m With Her release the second single from their forthcoming album ‘Wild, Clear and Blue’.   I’m With Her is trio Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan. Between the three of them, they have seven […]
Book Reviews

Paperback Riders: 95 Years of Analog Science Fiction and Fact

April 11, 2025 Tim Martin 1
For nearly a century, ‘Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine’ has sat at the frontier of science fiction. While it’s fashionable to lump SF, fantasy and horror into one box called “Speculative fiction” these days, ‘Analog’ […]

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Something for the long weekend: Michael Stipe & Andrew Watt “I Played the Fool”

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Our new supporters playlist comes out tomorrow – win a pair of tickets for the Folk by the Oak Festival!

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Essentials: The Top 10 Railroad Earth Songs

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Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more comes to Liverpool in November – here’s how you can get your tickets

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Last week we announced details of Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK, which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House later this year on Saturday November […]
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Something for the long weekend: Michael Stipe & Andrew Watt “I Played the Fool”

April 2, 2026 2
Well that’s it from us for this week as we head into the long weekend. If you’re an AUK supporter your playlist will still be with you for 5pm tomorrow and don’t forget tickets for our […]
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Our new supporters playlist comes out tomorrow – win a pair of tickets for the Folk by the Oak Festival!

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If you’re not subscribing to our monthly supporters newsletter you’ll be missing out on our exclusive supporters playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month which this month includes new tracks by […]

  • Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more comes to Liverpool in November – here’s how you can get your tickets
  • Something for the long weekend: Michael Stipe & Andrew Watt “I Played the Fool”
  • Our new supporters playlist comes out tomorrow – win a pair of tickets for the Folk by the Oak Festival!
  • The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 5th – Gillian Welch “Revelator” (2001)
  • Essentials: The Top 10 Railroad Earth Songs
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Interviews

Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

April 2, 2026 0
How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]
Interviews

Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”

April 1, 2026 0
Few artists write with the kind of raw honesty and emotional depth that Foy Vance brings to his music. Across a career that has steadily unfolded over the last two decades, Vance has crafted songs that […]
Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Natalie Del Carmen “Pastures”

March 30, 2026 0
When it comes right down to it, the heart of americana music has always been about connecting listeners to real experiences and emotions, and Natalie Del Carmen is currently one of the best examples of what […]

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It can be hard to keep in touch with what’s happening in the world of Cajun music when you’re on the other side of the Atlantic and can’t keep your ear to the ground as much […]
Album Reviews

Kris Kelly “Runaways” (Independent, 2019)

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Kris Kelly’s self-released album ‘Runaways’ is packed full of evocative lyrics and otherworldly vocals set to a backdrop of chamber pop and folky guitars. Kelly wrote the album following a stint travelling in South America. It […]
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Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn to play UK dates

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There are special gigs, there are rare gigs, there are gigs that are musical premieres.  Few upcoming gigs offer that combination in quite the same way as the 23rd January and 25th January 2020 appearances of […]

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