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About Jonathan Aird
Sure, I could climb high in a tree, or go to Skye on my holiday. I could be happy. All I really want is the excitement of first hearing The Byrds, the amazement of decades of Dylan's music, or the thrill of seeing a band like The Long Ryders live. That's not much to ask, is it?
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Joe Stamm “Flower Of The Everglades” – overlooking beauty

April 10, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1
Joe Stamm has put together a collection of songs which form the new EP ‘Allegheny‘ on which he is joined by The Allegheny High, more usually to be found supporting Charles Wesley Godwin.  And, on ‘Flower […]
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Ani DiFranco “New Bible” – Time to adopt different way

April 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Ani DiFranco’s latest album ‘Unprecedented Sh!t’ is being heralded by a pair of singles ‘The Thing At Hand‘ and the song we’re featuring today ‘New Bible.’   It’s a song which depicts a way of living that stands […]
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Kaia Kater “In Montreal” – features Allison Russell

April 8, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
And now is as good a time as any to remind ourselves what comment we made on Kaia Kater back in 2019: “Kaia Kater is an incredibly poised performer, and her songs are complicated and subtle, […]
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Track Premiere: Rachel McIntyre Smith “Parentheses”

April 4, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Rachel McIntyre Smith has been at music for a while – she started piano at the age of 9 and she soon got pretty good at it as she won the Tennessee State Piano Competition twice […]
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Anna Tivel “Bluebird” – Following a path to better things

April 3, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
And once again we find ourselves saying “not a cover” and wondering if it is still necessary.  Here’s  a new song from Anna Tivel, taken from the upcoming album ‘Living Thing,’ which is due out May […]

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Preview: The Long Road Festival of Country, Americana and Roots, 27th-30th August Stanford Hall Leicestershire

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Moon Attendant “Dum Evol”

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Book Review: Jeff Apter “King of Hearts, Roy Orbison”

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Personal Trainer “Human Assholes”

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Margo Cilker “Little White Cross” – unplanned ends for reckless actions

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The Long Road 2026 festival poster
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Preview: The Long Road Festival of Country, Americana and Roots, 27th-30th August Stanford Hall Leicestershire

August 20, 2026 0
The Long Road Festival, at Stanford Hall, Leicestershire, remains a favourite festival for americana fans – combining country, Americana and roots music. Running this year from Thursday 27th to Sunday 30th August, the festival lineup combines […]
Album Reviews

Moon Attendant “Dum Evol”

August 20, 2026 0
A strange and often beguiling journey through psychedelic pop, fractured relationships and the lessons we learn the hard way. There is something immediately intriguing about Dum Evol. Brighton’s Moon Attendant have created an album that feels […]
Book Reviews

Book Review: Jeff Apter “King of Hearts, Roy Orbison”

August 20, 2026 0
This book is down-to-earth and unflashy. It adopts a simple narrative style and delivers its facts in a no-nonsense, easily accessible way. All of that seems exactly right for the biography of a musician who always […]

  • Preview: The Long Road Festival of Country, Americana and Roots, 27th-30th August Stanford Hall Leicestershire
  • Moon Attendant “Dum Evol”
  • Book Review: Jeff Apter “King of Hearts, Roy Orbison”
  • Personal Trainer “Human Assholes”
  • Margo Cilker “Little White Cross” – unplanned ends for reckless actions
  • Video: Rayland Baxter “The Fool” – that monster can tear us apart
  • Interview: Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester on why “It’s A Joy To Be Alive”
  • Michael McDermott “Flowers From The Graveyard”
  • Film of “Hadestown: The Musical” gets limited release in October
  • Sequoia “So Long”
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  • Alan Peatfield: Great stuff. Already booked the release date in my diary (at my age, I'd likely forget otherwise!)
  • Graeme Tait: Hi John. Really pleased to hear that. Fingers crossed we see Eric over here before too long.
  • John bryan: Suitably blown away Graeme and it would be lovely to see Eric this side of the pond.

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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, […]
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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 […]
Interviews

Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]

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Joshua Radin “Here, Right Now” (Nettwerk, 2019)

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It’s hard to begin listening to a Joshua Radin record without it conjuring visions of the kind of melodramatic scenes that might feature in a certain breed of US television drama. Radin first found success in […]
Videos

Video: Faithless Town “Coal Mining Man”

April 27, 2022 0
Faithless Town’s latest single grabs your attention immediately with its pounding percussion and driving beat.  Layers of guitar and organ add to an insistent rhythm and sense of urgency that matches the work-rate of the coal […]
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The Other Side of Me: Jonathan Aird on the electronic genius of Jean-Michel Jarre

February 1, 2022 0
AUK continues its series looking at the musical tastes of AUK writers beyond the Americana genre. It all started with a double-album on a single cassette release of ‘Oxygene‘ and ‘Equinox‘.  Here was the sound of […]

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