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Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates

July 17, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
Jawdropped, a four-piece from Los Angeles, have announced their debut album, Secret To Spare, due 18th September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback. The band has also released the first single, Split Lip, along with a video […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking

July 17, 2026 Jonathan Aird 2
We’ve been lucky enough here at Americana UK to have been aware of Anna Tivel and her astonishing songwriting pretty much from her emergence into the folk/singer-songwriter/americana combined genres. We haven’t been shy with our praise […]
Book Reviews

Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”

July 17, 2026 Tim Martin 0
When Dennis McNally published A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead in 2002, he had an almost impossible task. It needed to document a band whose history was already wrapped in layers […]
News

Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

July 17, 2026 Mark Whitfield 1
Or England tour to be precise. Tickets on sale from next Wednesday 22nd July. You may have heard of this artist we’ve mentioned on the site once or twice who goes by the name of Bob […]
Columns

Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?

July 17, 2026 Paul Villers 0
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act“, George Orwell. The country, truth be told, is going to hell in a handcart. Everything is bad. Everything. Nobody can afford anything. Nobody […]

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Live Review: Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle + Junior Brother + Sam Grassie, EartH, London – 3rd September 2026

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Be Good Tanyas release 25th Anniversary vinyl edition of debut album “Blue Horse”

September 15, 2026 0
Twenty-five years after The Be Good Tanyas introduced their singular take on folk music to the world, the celebrated Vancouver group has announced a special 25th anniversary edition of their debut album, Blue Horse, arriving November […]
artwork for Cody Landress-Gibson album - Music to Get By On
Album Reviews

Cody Landress-Gibson “Music To Get By On”

September 15, 2026 0
From punk to pedal steel, the Chattanooga storyteller lays bare the challenges of a tough year. This is a short, impactful record. Cody Landress-Gibson cuts to the chase and burrows into our hearts. His gut-twisting lyrics […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle + Junior Brother + Sam Grassie, EartH, London – 3rd September 2026

September 15, 2026 0
An Autumnal return to EartH (Experimental Arts Hackney) for a remarkable line-up in the converted cinema main hall.  Pentangle were one of the big four of British folk-rock bands alongside Fairport, Steeleye Span and the Incredible […]

  • Be Good Tanyas release 25th Anniversary vinyl edition of debut album “Blue Horse”
  • Cody Landress-Gibson “Music To Get By On”
  • Live Review: Jacqui McShee’s Pentangle + Junior Brother + Sam Grassie, EartH, London – 3rd September 2026
  • Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”
  • Hollow Hand takes Wish Road South out on the… apologies for this… road
  • Blue Twisted Steel “Turnstile Of Romance”
  • My Morning Jacket “Like A Hurricane” – take it to the bridge
  • Video Premiere: New Earth Farmers “Atmosphere”
  • For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”
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Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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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 […]
News

Video: M G Boulter “Soft Light”

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This gorgeous song rather slipped through the AUK net but better late than never.  From his EP Blood Moon, out now and made with folk quartet The Froe, this is Southend’s Matt Boulter with another effortlessly […]
Album Reviews

Kate Ellis “Carve Me Out” (River Rose Records, 2017)

July 11, 2017 0
Kate Ellis has trodden an interesting path to her debut album. Born in Louisiana, with a father who once played guitar for Hank Williams, she grew up in New York with a gift for classical piano […]

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