April 2026 – Page 8 – Americana UK

Suzie Ungerleider + Danni Nicholls, St Lawrence’s Church, Biddulph – 15th April 2026

April 24, 2026 NickBarber 0

By a coincidence of touring planning, both Suzie Ungerleider and Danni Nicholls’ journey around the venues of the UK and Europe overlapped, so it was fortunate but maybe not unsurprising that their paths might converge at […]

Latest AUK podcast now available featuring The Cowboy Junkies’ Micheal Timmins in conversation

April 24, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

This week’s interview is with Cowboy Junkies mainman and founder, Michael Timmins, on the cusp of the release of Open To Beauty, the compilation of their best tracks of the 21st Century, and their UK Tour. […]

Book Review: Amy Rigby “Girl To Country: A Memoir”

April 24, 2026 Tim Martin 2

The second volume of Amy Rigby’s memoirs picks up the story where we left her in Girl To City. The earlier book was “set in a ramshackle twentieth century New York world of homemade clubs and […]

Taj Mahal “Wild About My Lovin'” –

April 24, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

And so we reach the end of all star week here at the Tracks section of Americana UK – did we not mention that it’s all star week at Tracks? We figured you’d notice. Taj Mahal’s […]

Video Premiere: Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock “Summer Rain”

April 24, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0

The gorgeous Summer Rain is the latest single from folk duo Jo Bartlett and Neil Haydock. There is the perfect confluence of three elements: wistful, yearning music; sensitive, narrative lyrics; and a visual, which is steeped […]

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

June 30, 2026 0

On Singing Machine, Microphone, the final track on David Borné’s 2023 debut Genesis, he sings of the unbridled, innocent joy of making music during childhood for nothing but the pure love of it. It’s a soaring […]

Ian Prowse “No Names”

June 30, 2026 0

Impassioned energy and emotionally charged politics from Merseyside luminary. Ian Prowse has been making music for more than thirty years, first with indie band Pele, then forming the band Amsterdam in 1999, and now releasing albums […]

New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

June 30, 2026 0

Occasionally, we provide a compendium of recently announced live shows, so here are three sets of tour dates that came our way in the last few days. Gaslight Anthem main man, Brian Fallon, who recently led […]

Interviews

Interview: Matt Patershuk writes songs for the small moments we all share

June 24, 2026 1

As an animal lover and caretaker of horses, dogs and cats, the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Patershuk certainly caught my attention. Dog Tiger Horses on Red Hen Records (2025) is green as grass, country-folk […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

June 18, 2026 0

Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]

Interviews

Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0

In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]

Tracks

Something for the weekend: American Aquarium “Down at the Twist and Shout”

May 7, 2021 1

That’s it for us for another week, and we leave you dear reader with a track from the new album by American Aquarium out today – ‘Slappers, Bangers & Certified Twangers, Vol. 1’ contains 10 covers […]

Album Reviews

Flutes & Low “Lay Fallow”

March 18, 2026 0

Sparse, beautiful folk-influenced music shaped by winter, tragedy, and nature. Flutes & Low comprises Ben Pichler and Cambria Haen, who met in Duluth, north-eastern Minnesota. They took their name from the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem “Inversnaid”, […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Ani DiFranco “Not A Pretty Girl”

June 2, 2021 0

‘Not A Pretty Girl’ captures an intriguing portrait of songwriter, musician, poet, and political activist Ani DiFranco as a young woman. It was her sixth studio album on Righteous Babe Records, the label she started at […]

Month: April 2026

Suzie Ungerleider + Danni Nicholls, St Lawrence’s Church, Biddulph – 15th April 2026

Latest AUK podcast now available featuring The Cowboy Junkies’ Micheal Timmins in conversation

Book Review: Amy Rigby “Girl To Country: A Memoir”

Taj Mahal “Wild About My Lovin'” –

Video Premiere: Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock “Summer Rain”

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

Ian Prowse “No Names”

New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Dillon Warnek

Preview: Rose’s Pawn Shop selling great gigs for the next couple of weeks