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  • [ August 21, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You” Videos
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Video Premiere: Kaz Murphy “Making Noise”

August 11, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
Although tuneful and easy on the ear with a conversational vocal style, make no mistake: Making Noise by SoCal folk singer Kaz Murphy is a song with anger at its heart. Murphy is apologetic, but silence […]
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Features

For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

August 10, 2026 Richard Parkinson 3
Seven Spanish Angels is a song which encapsulates a full range of americana imagery – doomed love, defiance, outlaws, faith, mystery and death – all set in an undescribed location that calls up the settings for […]
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Album Reviews

Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

August 10, 2026 John Lee 0
A moving, beautifully crafted collection of songs that refuses to surrender compassion in a fractured world. Chris Pierce has always possessed one of the finest voices in americana, capable of conveying tenderness, conviction and quiet resilience […]
News

Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October

August 10, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
Western folk singer-songwriter and AUK favourite Margo Cilker has announced her third album, Little White Cross, due out October 9 via Fossil Records, a label Cilker recently launched with fellow musician ISMAY. The upcoming 10-song set […]
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Kacy Lee Anderson to release debut solo album

August 10, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0
After more than a decade as one half of the Canadian folk duo Kacy & Clayton, Saskatchewan songwriter Kacy Lee Anderson steps out on her own with the announcement of her debut solo album, Hello, I’m […]

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Kelly Hunt

Kelly Hunt “All The King’s Horses” – Love makes fools of us all

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Video: Medium Build “Home Depot” – commiserations with the women stuck in the orbits of these men

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Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

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Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

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Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

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Kelly Hunt
Tracks

Kelly Hunt “All The King’s Horses” – Love makes fools of us all

August 24, 2026 0
Following hard on the heels of the news of the new album, Kelly Hunt has released the single All The King’s Horses which brings a nursery rhyme eye to the intricacies of love.  And at the […]
Videos

Video: Medium Build “Home Depot” – commiserations with the women stuck in the orbits of these men

August 24, 2026 0
Home Depot is the latest single from Medium Build, also known as singer-songwriter Nick Carpenter. The song tells the story of a character named Steve, who can’t express emotion without having his tools to hand – […]
Videos

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

August 21, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Teenage Fanclub who will release their new album Do Not Dare To Dream on 9th October via […]

  • Kelly Hunt “All The King’s Horses” – Love makes fools of us all
  • Video: Medium Build “Home Depot” – commiserations with the women stuck in the orbits of these men
  • Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”
  • Alicia Blue “Country Desire”
  • Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015
  • LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”
  • Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Mike Scott of The Waterboys
  • Brothers Comatose “High Hopes” – wishing for well
  • Video: Elanor Moss “Fixer” – a doorway into healing
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Interview: Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester on why “It’s A Joy To Be Alive”

August 19, 2026 0
One thing everyone quickly learns as they get older is that time waits for no one, and that life continues its unstoppable flow forward. Americana UK has followed Ferris & Sylvester’s career since their first album, […]
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Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]
Interviews

Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]

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Lewis & Leigh Announce ‘Keep Your Ghost’ Tour for 2017

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Lewis & Leigh – Al Lewis from Wales and Alva Leigh from Mississippi – released their debut album ‘Ghost’ on Celticana Records in August of this year to rather impressive reviews, The Observer describing it as featuring […]
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Video Premiere: Steve Dawson “This Is All There Is”

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“It’s not gonna be all right // So what are you gonna do about it?” asks Steve Dawson at the beginning of his latest single.  The light rhythm and carefully layered instrumentation, along with Dawson’s smooth, […]
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Dusty Wright “Quinn The Eskimo” – is he here yet?

March 6, 2023 0
There are those who disagree with the statement that Dylan is one of the most significant songwriters of the 20th Century.  You can see where they are coming from – his five studio albums of his […]

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