Ben Roberts

Seafoam Green “Martin’s Garden”

July 27, 2021 Ben Roberts 0

Some of the coolest and gnarliest riffs in Americana today. The press release for this album contains the words “featuring some of the world’s gnarliest players”. If that phrase isn’t going to draw you to an […]

Grant Livingston “Grant & Friends”

July 1, 2021 Ben Roberts 0

Cool southern jams and ambient space are created in this debut release. Be prepared for a lot of long jams in this debut release from Grant Livingston. ‘Grant & Friends’ brings back the good old days of […]

Shannon McNally “The Waylon Sessions”

June 25, 2021 Ben Roberts 1

Shannon McNally brings a whole new perspective to great, age-old Waylon Jennings songs. There is quite a bit of an interesting background behind this new Shannon McNally album, as she revisits the songs of country legend […]

Jesse Aycock “Jesse Aycock”

April 28, 2021 Ben Roberts 0

Traditional Alt-Country from Hard Working Americans sideman Jesse Aycock. Jesse Aycock has had this self-titled album in the works for a few years now. The Hard Working Americans member is joined by fellow Tulsa musicians, Paddy […]

Lucero “When You Found Me”

March 30, 2021 Ben Roberts 0

Honest and original Americana from Lucero. Simply a must listen and already a top 10 contender for 2021. Not a great deal of good has come out of the last 12 months, life has slowed down […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Forgotten Artists – Katy Moffatt

August 3, 2020 3

Here we are again with another feature in the FORGOTTEN ARTISTS series, where we take a look at some of the Americana musicians who may just have dropped out of people’s memories or who, perhaps, never […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Pete Mancini

June 7, 2024 2

The lockdown is over and people are once again buying tickets to see live music, although with record-setting inflation in America, the UK and Europe, some venues are not selling as many tickets as in pre-pandemic […]

Features

Here are the results of the Americana UK Readers’ Poll 2023

December 22, 2023 3

Well here they are – as always on our last day of publishing for the year, we can share with you the results of this year’s readers poll, one of the busiest we’ve had in recent […]

Articles by Ben Roberts

Seafoam Green “Martin’s Garden”

Grant Livingston “Grant & Friends”

Shannon McNally “The Waylon Sessions”

Jesse Aycock “Jesse Aycock”

Lucero “When You Found Me”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”