2026 – Page 245 – Americana UK

Willie Nelson Live at the Welmont Theatre, Montclair, NJ on May 17th, 2012

Anniversary Cheers – Willie Nelson’s “Country Music” celebrates a 15 year re-release

February 16, 2026 FredArnold 0

Willie’s 2010 release gets a re-boot with a multi-colour 2-disc gatefold vinyl release, plus CD and hi-res streaming options. In the heady days of 2010, Willie Nelson, country and roots singer par excellence, decided to record […]

Valerie Smith “Maggie’s Journal”

February 16, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

Valerie Smith goes on a bluegrass family history journey. Valerie Smith has spent a dozen years working on this project, which was birthed from a chance discovery of a handwritten journal in a cheap notebook by […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 221 “Bubbling Under”

February 16, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Occasionally, our Editor Mark, here at AUK, sends out requests for writers to join the team. This is how I ended up writing this column; I answered a call to arms back in 2004. So what […]

Magoo “Can’t You Hear That Train” – woo-woo, chuff-chuff

February 16, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0

Here’s a quandary to contemplate – if Magoo are a progressive bluegrass band, and they do seem to be such, how come the train they sing about on Can’t You Hear That Train is producing a […]

Video Premiere: Ian Roland “Virtually Free” – Driving in harder, horizontal rain

February 16, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0

Be absorbed by the video premiere of UK singer-songwriter Ian Roland’s first single of 2026, ‘Virtually Free’. At the heart of the song are the rich, warm tones of Roland’s twelve-string guitar. Roland’s band contribute excellent […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”

September 14, 2026 1

This surreal cut from Bob Dylan’s 1978 album Street-Legal can be interpreted in many ways. Dylan himself has offered many different explanations of the song’s intricate lyrics, often contradicting his earlier descriptions. Whatever the story, or […]

Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”

September 14, 2026 0

Standing Stones – enigmatic traces of the long past dwellers in these lands. People with their own culture, their own way of looking at the world – and even though they are long gone these remaining […]

Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”

September 14, 2026 0

An album which leads from a concept rooted in despair which ends as hopeful observations of life and its shifts. Margo Cilker says of her third album; “You could definitely call it a concept record.” Recorded […]

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