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Album Reviews

Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen “They Call Us The Lucky Ones”

July 3, 2026 Jeremy Clarke-Williams 0
Americana royalty teams up with a cracking Texas band to produce a varied and highly enjoyable mix of country, soul and stomp. Ryan Bingham is a comparatively rare example of an americana artist who has broken […]
Album Reviews

Ben Chapman “Feet On Fire”

June 11, 2026 Jeremy Clarke-Williams 0
Country rock and soul combine to fine effect on Ben Chapman’s latest release. In 2019, David Hepworth published the latest in his excellent sequence of books about rock music, and the stars and rascals who purveyed, […]
Album Reviews

Doug Mishkin “Tip Of The Spear”

June 3, 2026 Jeremy Clarke-Williams 0
A veteran activist singer-songwriter releases his latest bulletin on our troubled times, mixed in with more personal musings. Think of protest music, and one thinks of 1960s America, when the Vietnam War, in particular, inspired a […]
Album Reviews

Dirt Road Souls “(The Life and Times of) Johnny Moonshine”

May 19, 2026 Jeremy Clarke-Williams 0
A small-town song cycle energetically conveyed as a country-rock parable. A bar band! A concept album! A rock opera! These are descriptions that might send some running for the nearest bottle of Jack Daniel’s, but wait, […]
Albert Lee in Leverkusen 7th November 2017
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Albert Lee “Country Boy” Live on BBC Radio 2’s ‘Weekend Wogan’ – 28th March 2010

May 15, 2026 Jeremy Clarke-Williams 0
National treasures come in all shapes and sizes, from David Attenborough to David Bowie, and this clip brings together two of the best, when both were well past pensionable age. Terry Wogan, the smooth and twinkle-eyed […]

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Classic Clip: Crosby Stills Nash & Young “Don’t Be Denied” – Wembley Stadium, 1974

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David Banks to release self recorded second album on Clubhouse Records

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Leon Majcen “The Leaving Kind”

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelei “The Kid with the Crown”

September 11, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week – it is unbelievable that 9/11 was a quarter of a century ago. I asked my son what it was the other day and he said “the number […]
Album Reviews

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “Ghosts of American Psychonauts”

September 11, 2026 0
Eight exquisite live performances from a master songwriter. Bonnie “Prince” Billy (aka Will Oldham) is no stranger to releasing live albums. Over the past 25 years he’s produced numerous live recordings under his various aliases. This […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clip: Crosby Stills Nash & Young “Don’t Be Denied” – Wembley Stadium, 1974

September 11, 2026 0
The early autumn of 1974 saw a gathering of fans of what later contributed a slice of the pie known as Americana. The occasion: an all-star concert at London’s Wembley Stadium (the old one) featuring Crosby, […]

  • Something for the weekend: This is Lorelei “The Kid with the Crown”
  • Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy “Ghosts of American Psychonauts”
  • Classic Clip: Crosby Stills Nash & Young “Don’t Be Denied” – Wembley Stadium, 1974
  • David Banks to release self recorded second album on Clubhouse Records
  • Leon Majcen “The Leaving Kind”
  • The latest AUK podcast is now available featuring Eli ‘Paperboy’ Reid and Jason McNiff
  • Winter Stanley “Long Division” – carry the residual, man, carry the residual
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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. […]
Interviews

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

August 24, 2026 1
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 […]

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Album Reviews

Alias Patrick Kelly “An Unclaimed Inheritance” (Independent, 2019)

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Video: John Carter Cash “The Lover’s Secret”

November 28, 2025 0
The new single from John Carter Cash, ‘The Lover’s Secret’, continues to explore the themes of love, longing and the lure of the sea that threaded through Cash’s recent concept album “Pineapple John”. However, ‘The Lover’s […]
Album Reviews

Crushwater “The Wasteland” (Independent, 2020)

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Crushwater is Scott Sullivan on guitar/vocals, Chandra Johnson on Violin/Vocals, Enoch Bowlby on Bass and John Carlson on Drums and they hail from Port Angeles in Washington State. The keystone of this band is the interplay […]

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