August 2026 – Page 5 – Americana UK

Cover art for Kate Macleod's Mind the Gap album "Home Brewed"

Kate MacLeod’s Mind the Gap “Home-Brewed”

August 19, 2026 Graeme Tait 0

An album drenched in the roots music of the americana genre, delivering a freshness to both original and traditional tunes. Kate MacLeod’s recording career spans over thirty years, either solo or in collaboration with artists such […]

Track Premiere: Gyasi “Poor Boy”

August 19, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

Whilst Wednesday has traditionally been the day of choice for featuring instrumental tracks that has typically been as a bonus feature – so today we’re breaking with tradition and finding space for an instrumental track premiere. […]

Video: Rowena Wise “Unlearning Of Love” – Embrace me, don’t break away

August 19, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0

Unlearning Of Love is the latest single from Naarm/Melbourne-based singer-songwriter Rowena Wise. The song addresses the very nature of love, pulling apart everything learned about what love between two people means, examining it and then trying […]

Anniversary Cheers: JD Crowe & The New South and Boone Creek celebrate 50 years

August 18, 2026 FredArnold 1

Craft Recordings re-release two remastered ground-breaking bluegrass albums, one long out of print, and both on CD for the first time In the mid-1970s, bluegrass music was evolving from the traditional ensemble acoustic playing of artists […]

Dan Pye “Room 7, on the 7th”

August 18, 2026 Andrew Raw 0

An impressive modern folk debut where creativity shines through. London-based Dan Pye is a creative individual. Alongside Room 7, on the 7th, his debut album, he has produced films, zines, handmade copper etchings, a diptych and […]

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 […]

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

August 21, 2026 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 […]

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

August 21, 2026 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 […]

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