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More People Really Should Know About: Doug Seegers

November 11, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 1
Typing “Doug Seegers” into the AUK search brought up only two mentions, both just listed his name among many others in a festival announcement. That is possibly because he would be classified as country, but Seegers […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Suzanne Vega + Katherine Priddy, Royal Albert Hall, London – 3rd Nov 2025

November 11, 2025 Martin Fisher 0
It was no great surprise (and gladly so) to see Suzanne Vega performing here in the UK. At a guess, the New York-based singer-songwriter has regularly toured these shores at a rate of perhaps once in […]
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Album Reviews

The Dreaming Spires “Normal Town”

November 11, 2025 Jonny Brick 2
Pretty melodies and bleak landscapes combine on this grounded album. “It’s my home, I suppose,” sings Robin Bennett on the title track, which opens the third Dreaming Spires album. It’s about Didcot, the in-between town in […]
Tracks

Paul Thompson “The Clocks Went Back” – spring forward, fall back

November 11, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
We admit we’re late with this song, but that was inevitable really because, even with the gained hour of the end of British Summertime we were never going to be around for the posting date, which […]
Videos

Video: Elliot C Way “Fool’s Gold”

November 11, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out the outstanding outlaw sound of ‘Fool’s Gold’, the latest single from Vancouver-based singer-songwriter Elliot C. Way, just released via North Country Collective. The song is driven along by a pulsing rhythm and twanging, authentically […]

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The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

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It’s week 2 of the search for our writers’ Top 10 UK americana albums, and Jonathan Hincks will doubt add to the debate with his choice, as follows: With the hands of the Doomsday Clock edging […]
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Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

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Norwegian queer-country assertively and affectionately delivering. Embla Karidotter was the drummer for Norwegian indie band Razika for 13 years, before she chose to change direction and build on her love of country music with new band […]
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Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

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On the 16th of October, Béla Fleck is to release the recording of a stellar Nashville night as a live album called Live Heart. On January 8, 2022, he and a multigenerational gang of musical heavy […]

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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 […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

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Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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The past is never dead. It’s not even past – an interview with John Murry

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John Murry’s 2012 album The Graceless Age was hailed by MOJO magazine with a 5 out of 5 rating, UNCUT called it a “masterpiece”, both magazines included it in their Top 10 albums of the year; […]
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Book Review: Andrew Lauder, Mick Houghton “Happy Trails – Andrew Lauder’s Charmed Life And High Times In The Record Business”

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Andrew Lauder will be a name well known to readers of several different vintages but especially from those clued in to the output from United Artists in the early 1970s and pages of Zigzag magazine from […]
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Luke Sital-Singh “Dressing Like A Stranger”

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A move to California hasn’t significantly altered Luke Sital-Singh’s sound. Luke Sital-Singh’s debut album ‘The Fire Inside’ caused a bit of a stir here in the UK as it was recognised as bringing a breath of […]

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