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Album Reviews

Tim Grimm and the Family Band “A Stranger In This Time” (Cavalier Recordings 2017)

May 18, 2017 Dave Jennings 0
One of the leading Folk and Americana exponents, Tim Grimm, delivers his latest album rich in imagery and potent of lyrics. The personal, the political and the social are all examined, alongside tunes of real beauty […]
Album Reviews

Threefifty “Gently Among The Coals” (Independent, 2017)

May 11, 2017 Dave Jennings 0
Threefifty founders Brett Parnell and Geremy Schulick have developed their love of, and influences from, guitar heroes such as Chet Atkins and Mark Knopfler through classical guitar training, and released three previous albums. And then they drop […]
Album Reviews

Ray Davies “Americana” (Sony, 2017)

May 8, 2017 Dave Jennings 0
Ray Davies return with his first album in a decade, if we discount the various Kinks collaborations and choral reworking.  It stands as a testament that everything changes and nothing changes since Working Man’s Café dropped […]
Album Reviews

David Olney “Don’t Try To Fight It” (Red Parlor Records 2017)

April 25, 2017 Dave Jennings 0
The rules are there are no rules. These seem to be the only guidelines followed by David Olney in the creation of ‘Don’t Try To Fight It’, the latest addition to his considerable catalogue that covers […]
Album Reviews

Robyn Hitchcock “Robyn Hitchcock” (Yep Roc 2017)

April 24, 2017 Dave Jennings 0
Robyn Hitchcock releases his twenty first studio album, his first since 2014’s ‘The Man Upstairs’, and has chosen after all these years an eponymous title. “It’s ‘Introducing Robyn Hitchcock” he has said, working on the principle […]

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Live Review: Buddy Miller, Ryman Auditorium , Nashville – 13th September 2026

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Krauss, Colvin and Douglas at Library of Congress 2007

Classic Clip: Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas “The Boxer”— Library of Congress, Washington, 2007

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September 18, 2026 2

The Dreaming Spires and Annie Keating join forces for single and live dates

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Videos

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Be With You Tonight”

September 18, 2026 0
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 […]
Album Reviews

Benjamin Tod “Country is Dead”

September 18, 2026 0
Journeyman comes full circle with an album of resonant covers that have been uniquely adapted throughout his career, tracing all the way back to his teenage days busking in Nashville. Benjamin Tod has been around the […]
Buddy Miller live
Live Reviews

Live Review: Buddy Miller, Ryman Auditorium , Nashville – 13th September 2026

September 18, 2026 0
Opening for The War and Treaty at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Buddy Miller explained how he came to crash the party and thanked the headliners and support Avery Sunshine for indulging him. Miller had a call from […]

  • Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Be With You Tonight”
  • Benjamin Tod “Country is Dead”
  • Live Review: Buddy Miller, Ryman Auditorium , Nashville – 13th September 2026
  • Classic Clip: Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas “The Boxer”— Library of Congress, Washington, 2007
  • The Dreaming Spires and Annie Keating join forces for single and live dates
  • Kyle Jenkins “Palace”
  • Dennis Ellsworth “Living”
  • Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Jack Browning and Blue Twisted Steel
  • Kyshona “We The People” – only people have the power
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  • Paul: Fabulous. Been a Colvin fan her whole career and she holds her own in such august company. Not forgetting, of…
  • Wayne: Glad you got to see ESR on the Front Porch; such a great songwriter and storyteller. I made sure to…

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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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Video: Jonathan Wilson “Marzipan”

April 18, 2023 0
Jonathan Wilson channels Magritte and the Muppets in his new AI-created video ‘Marzipan’.   “AI” may as well mean “Acid Inspired” as the entire video is a colorful stream of conscious trip.  The song starts softly with […]
Album Reviews

Big Surr “In Business” (Independent, 2017)

April 6, 2017 0
Being in love is such fun, isn’t it? When it stops being you against the world and starts being us against the world. To be understood. And supported. And to go cruising in a car laughing […]
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Video: George St Clair “New Mexico”

December 19, 2018 0
From his new album Ballads Of Captivity And Freedom (8/10 on this site) comes this excellent song that records the things seen working and travelling in the Texas/Mexico/New Mexico border area.  They’re not good, but the […]

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