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  • [ August 24, 2026 ] For The Sake of The Song: Craig Finn “God in Chicago” Features
  • [ August 24, 2026 ] Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons “Panther Tracks Volume 2” Album Reviews
  • [ August 24, 2026 ] Sounds from beyond the Shed 250 “Edinburgh” Columns
  • [ August 24, 2026 ] Kelly Hunt “All The King’s Horses” – Love makes fools of us all Tracks
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Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

August 21, 2026 Mark Whitfield 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 […]
Album Reviews

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

August 21, 2026 Helen Jones 0
A confident debut that shows the Nashville-based singer-songwriter has a vigour that sets her apart from the crowd. For singer-songwriter Alicia Blue, Waylon Jennings isn’t so much an influence as someone she calls “a creative angel […]
Features

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

August 21, 2026 Hugo Simoes 0
Michael Hurley died last year, and wasn’t it starting to look like he wasn’t the dying kind? Every now and then someone goes, and it’s only then that you realise what you’d been hoping for: that […]
News

LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”

August 21, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
On Elephant Hill is the debut album from Big Trouble, the Los Angeles-based project led by Justin Kohlberg (Moonrun) and Daniel Talamantes and it’s scheduled for release on the 18th of September on Royal Oakie Records. […]
Album artwork for Devyn Brinsfield's album "Dreamers and Losers"
Album Reviews

Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”

August 21, 2026 Ben Yelton 3
Proper country, raw and honest and raucous. Devyn Brinsfield is one of those characters with a backstory that you would dismiss as being unbelievable if you didn’t know better. Still employed as a school bus driver […]

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Craig Finn performs solo

For The Sake of The Song: Craig Finn “God in Chicago”

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Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons “Panther Tracks Volume 2”

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 250 “Edinburgh”

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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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Craig Finn performs solo
Features

For The Sake of The Song: Craig Finn “God in Chicago”

August 24, 2026 0
I am sure many of you will know of Craig Finn. The front man with The Hold Steady has been applying his raspy form of talk-singing to their blend of indie punk and heartland rock since […]
Album Reviews

Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons “Panther Tracks Volume 2”

August 24, 2026 0
It’s more of the same from Jerry Joseph and his crack band and guests, as on Volume 1, but what a same to be more of! Jerry Joseph is fan favourite and greatly loved at AUK […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 250 “Edinburgh”

August 24, 2026 0
Spent last weekend in Edinburgh, where Mrs H was singing with her gospel choir. It was a joyous and raucous weekend full of laughs and drinks, stairs and steps, and some fabulous shows. It goes without […]

  • For The Sake of The Song: Craig Finn “God in Chicago”
  • Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons “Panther Tracks Volume 2”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 250 “Edinburgh”
  • 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”
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Interviews

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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Interviews

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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Tracks

Storm The Palace “She Knows” – stylish murder ballad ahoy

September 15, 2022 0
You may already be thinking that Storm The Palace are probably not a hardcore Americana band, and they probably lean towards the folkier end of the spectrum of coverage for your favourite music site.  And you’d […]
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Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Blaze Foley “Clay Pigeons”

February 6, 2026 4
OK, the internet as a whole is … not without its problems. BUT what a treasury it offers for the obscure, and especially YouTube, where anyone can post up anything that they happen across, and there’s […]
Interviews

Interview: Ed Snodderly on his many-faceted career in the music of the American South

September 12, 2023 0
From learning old-time music in his family home to hosting John Lee Hooker, Guy and Townes. Ed Snodderly is a child of the American South and he so is obsessed with its culture and music that […]

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