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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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Track Premiere: Camp Bedford “Our America”

June 29, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Brooklyn based Camp Bedford released an EP ‘So Often & So Sweet‘ back in March, and they are following that up with a new single which will be released everywhere on Friday, but we have an […]
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Joel Paterson “King Street Breakdown” – play that guitar!

June 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Wednesday afternoon – and the blissful retreat from all those pesky lyrics as we enter the Americana UK Ragtime Breakdown Zone (or the AUKRBZ as we sometimes call it).  And today on the AUKRBZ (that’s the […]
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Track Premiere: Laura Zarougian: “Back To Me”

June 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1
Are you ready, dear loyal listener, to hear a new voice that we guarantee you that you’re going to love?  Laura Zarougian’s sound is rather special – she grew up on the coast of the Atlantic […]
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Track Premiere: Joy Zimmerman “If I Should Fall Behind”

June 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 3
What can we tell you about Joy Zimmerman?  Well, Joy Zimmerman is a former social worker and a current touring folk & acoustic roots singer/songwriter and multi-instrumentalist.  When she isn’t touring she can be found at […]
Album Reviews

Esther Rose “Safe To Run”

June 26, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Superior songwriting and deep recollections on Esther Rose’s fourth album. ‘Safe To Run‘ sees Esther Rose coming fully into her own singer-songwriter voice – earlier albums have moved from a very traditional country base through to […]

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Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

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Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

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LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”

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Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”

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Videos

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

August 21, 2026 1
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

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

August 21, 2026 0
A confident debut that shows the Nashville-based singer-songwriter has a vigour that sets her apart from the crowd. For singer-songwriter Alicia Blue, Waylon Jennings isn’t so much an influence as someone she calls “a creative angel […]
Features

Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

August 21, 2026 0
Michael Hurley died last year, and wasn’t it starting to look like he wasn’t the dying kind? Every now and then someone goes, and it’s only then that you realise what you’d been hoping for: that […]

  • Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”
  • Alicia Blue “Country Desire”
  • Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015
  • LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”
  • Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Mike Scott of The Waterboys
  • Brothers Comatose “High Hopes” – wishing for well
  • Video: Elanor Moss “Fixer” – a doorway into healing
  • Anniversary Cheers: “Buena Vista Social Club” celebrates 30 years
  • Preview: The Long Road Festival of Country, Americana and Roots, 27th-30th August Stanford Hall Leicestershire
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  • Devyn Brinsfield: I’ll need to fly across the pond. I hear you guys actually like good country over there.
  • Ben Yelton: My pleasure my man - loved the album! Good luck
  • Devyn Brinsfield: I will take that all day. I’m speechless 9/10? Your amazing.

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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, […]
Waylon Payne Press Photo July 2026
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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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Track Premiere: Lashes “Daydreamer”

February 21, 2019 0
Lashes are a London band who have found that the path to rock ‘n’ roll greatness is paved with the likes of the Stones,  The Band, The Faces and Dylan.   The band name, perhaps not too […]
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Will Stratton announces major tour of UK in support of new album

April 9, 2025 0
Will Stratton released his new album “Points Of Origin” the other week via Bella Union (see our review here) – listen to the first single to be taken from it below. To celebrate the release he […]
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Our new AUK supporters playlist is out today – win tickets to see Katherine Priddy live

May 3, 2024 0
Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Iron and Wine, Pokey LaFarge, Dawn Landes, Old 97s, […]

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