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Interview: Angela Easterling on her music, her kids and her grandpa’s farm

April 9, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

“All of a sudden, time stood still, and we watched our plans and expectations float away like lost balloons.” For Angela Easterling, life began in South Carolina and, except for college years in Boston, has been […]

Live Review: The Kennedys, Live at Ted’s, Wilmington, North Carolina – 24th March 2025

April 8, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Making their long-awaited and overdue return to Live at Ted’s in Wilmington, North Carolina, the Kennedys found themselves buoyed on by a sold-out house. This was the last stop on their double-30th anniversary tour – 30 […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Daryl Mosley

April 2, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

There’s nothing wrong with wishing the good old days were back to the present. Forget the future. Without having access to Marty McFly’s time-traveling DeLorean, by which you could pack the value in the trunk then […]

The Devil Makes Three “Spirits”

April 1, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Two’s company, but three’s a crowd, especially when the third is the devil. “Spirits” is the first new album in seven years by the genre-bending Americana band the Devil Makes Three, their long-awaited follow-up to the […]

Book Review: Pete Kennedy “Tone, Twang and Taste: A Guitar Memoir”

March 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

The whole things started with me saying “yes.” Pete Kennedy has written his memoir with the same plainspoken elegance as the records he has made with his musical partner and wife, Maura Kennedy. He spins some […]

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

September 24, 2026 0

On the 16th of October, Béla Fleck is to release the recording of a stellar Nashville night as a live album called Live Heart. On January 8, 2022, he and a multigenerational gang of musical heavy […]

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

September 24, 2026 0

A collection of rootsier tunes ideal for shuffle or playlist. Anyone who has attended gigs of a rootsier persuasion around Manchester and the northwest in recent years will almost certainly have come across the hard-working and […]

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

September 24, 2026 0

Stephen Eyre is singer and guitarist with South Oxfordshire band Only The Brave. Our Graeme Tait reviewed their debut EP and described them as a band with a bright future in his February EP roundup. Stephen […]

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. […]

Tracks

Murry Hammond “Drying Tear” – recording in a whirlwind

July 30, 2025 0

From that opening whistle, it’s clear that Murry Hammond has got something somewhat different going on, and as ‘Drying Tear‘ expands, it’ll become clear that what we’re doing is following Lee Hazlewood’s footprints through the dust. […]

Videos

Video: Leah Blevins “Be Careful Throwing Stones” – Those who live in glass houses…

January 20, 2026 0

Here’s the latest single from Leah Blevins. ‘Be Careful Throwing Stones’ features shimmering instrumental layers, over which Blevins’ voice is clear and pure as she delivers words about love unravelling: “When you got a glass heart […]

Album Reviews

Stills & Collins “Everybody Knows” (Cleopatra Records, 2018)

October 15, 2018 0

Sometimes you can be genuinely surprised by an album for any number of reasons. In this case, it’s the surprise of seeing these two artists recording together in 2018. There’s no obvious reason why they shouldn’t […]

Articles by Dean Nardi

Interview: Angela Easterling on her music, her kids and her grandpa’s farm

Live Review: The Kennedys, Live at Ted’s, Wilmington, North Carolina – 24th March 2025

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Daryl Mosley

The Devil Makes Three “Spirits”

Book Review: Pete Kennedy “Tone, Twang and Taste: A Guitar Memoir”

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”

Vox Continental: September 2026

Family Stereo “Remedy” – heartbreak beckons