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Insomnia and music go together. Love discovering new music to get lost in - country, singer-songwriters, Americana, folk, rock, punk.... Currently enjoying Courtney Marie Andrews, Elles Bailey, Nils Lofgren, Ferris & Sylvester, Chris Murphy, Jarrod Dickenson, Jerry Joseph, Frank Turner, David Ford, Patterson Hood, Glitterfox, Chuck Prophet, The Lottery Winners, Our Man in the Field...
Videos

Video: The Americans “You Will Not Take My Heart Alive”

January 11, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Begin your week with this atmospheric video from The Americans.  It’s a cover of Joanna Newsom’s ‘You Will Not Take My Heart Alive’ but the band very much make it their own.  Guitarist and singer, Patrick […]
Videos

Video: Declan O’Rourke “The Stars Over Kinvara”

January 7, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Here is the fourth single from Declan O’Rourke’s highly-anticipated new album.  ‘The Stars Over Kinvara’ is a typically delicate and melodic ballad from the Irish singer.  His voice resonates throughout this beautiful, intimate song, rising and […]
Features

Video Review of the Year 2020

December 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
Well, what a year it’s been: a bitterly contested US Presidential election, the Black Lives Matter movement and a global pandemic that brought the world to a standstill.  The word ‘unprecedented’ must be the most well-used […]
Videos

Video: Elles Bailey & Lady Nade “Silent Night”

December 23, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
It’s beginning to feel a little bit like Christmas.  To help with the festive spirit, here’s a beautiful rendition of traditional Christmas carol ‘Silent Night’ by Elles Bailey and Lady Nade.  The charity Christmas single has […]
Videos

Video: Drive-By Truckers “The KKK Took My Baby Away”

December 23, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
What a way to finish the year.  ‘The KKK Took May Baby Away’ is the final song from the acclaimed album ‘The New OK’, which was the second from Drive-By Truckers this year.  Just like the […]

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Jim James “Wowed Out”

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Foy Vance to release multi-part new album and play autumn tour dates

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Sian & Rob Colquhoun “Sourwood Honey”

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AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – August 2026

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Don’t forget our Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more – join us in Liverpool in November!

August 25, 2026 0
As usual, we wanted to remind you about Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK, which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House later this year on […]
Album Reviews

Jim James “Wowed Out”

August 25, 2026 1
Jim James escapes information overload through beauty and hope. We’re living in an age of information overload, where almost everything is aimed at shocking or amazing us. Wowed Out is where Jim James thinks our brains […]
Foy Vance
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Foy Vance to release multi-part new album and play autumn tour dates

August 25, 2026 0
Emmy-winning singer-songwriter Foy Vance has announced his eighth studio album, IF, for release on 30th April 2027. Described as an autobiography in album form, IF will be released in three parts, with each part arriving as […]

  • Don’t forget our Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more – join us in Liverpool in November!
  • Jim James “Wowed Out”
  • Foy Vance to release multi-part new album and play autumn tour dates
  • Sian & Rob Colquhoun “Sourwood Honey”
  • AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – August 2026
  • Sera Cahoone “I’ve Missed You All These Years”
  • Track Premiere: Feral Foster “Tell Old Bill”
  • Video: Genevieve & Milo “Slow” – an acceptance of the best and worst of ourselves
  • Jobi Riccio announces UK and Ireland tour dates for Autumn
  • Chasen Wayne and the Honky Tonk Machine “The Diamond Saloon”
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Interviews

Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the weird in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 0
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]
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, […]
Waylon Payne Press Photo July 2026
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 […]

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Features

More People Really Should Know About: The Deslondes

August 22, 2023 1
As the gist of this column is to raise the awareness of acts who provide quality music but aren’t especially lauded I reckoned that The Deslondes, a five-piece outfit from New Orleans fitted the bill. To […]
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Julianna Raye “Hush”

November 5, 2025 0
Americana or Latin Jazz (South Americana?) which Julianna Raye beautifully delivers. New York-born Julianna Raye had a brief flirtation with fame in the early ’90s when producers Jeff Lynne (ELO) and Lenny Waronker (Maria Muldaur, Ry […]
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Only Child “Emotional Geography” (Independent, 2019)

April 4, 2019 0
You don’t need to be Sherlock to deduce that Only Child are a Liverpool band, as the opening track is ‘Scouse’ on their latest offering ‘Emotional Geography.’  This track gives a potted history of, and a personal […]

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