Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ December 22, 2025 ] Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: 10-2 Features
  • [ December 22, 2025 ] For the sake of the song: Corinne West “Trouble No More” Features
  • [ December 22, 2025 ] Boy & Bear “Tripping Over Time” Album Reviews
  • [ December 22, 2025 ] Sounds from beyond the Shed 215 “Christmas Vinyl” Columns
  • [ December 22, 2025 ] A year down the Tracks Tracks
HomeAuthorsJonathan Aird

Articles by Jonathan Aird

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?
Tracks

The Danberrys “The Mountain” – Listen

February 19, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Husband and wife duo, Dorothy Daniel and Ben DeBerry go back a long way – they were high school sweethearts,  but split and followed their own paths for five years.  Dorothy Daniel wrote her own music, […]

Tracks

Nathaniel Rateliff “All Or Nothing” – Listen

February 18, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Is it just our imagination or does this latest song from Nathaniel Rateliff’s new album ‘And It’s Still Alright‘ (newly out on Stax Records) have something of a Harry Nilsson vibe to it ?  There’s a […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Sara Rachele “Terry Richardson”

February 17, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Sara Rachele’s last album ‘Scorpio Moon’ had a richly layered augmented band sound, but the follow up ‘Scorpio Sun’ which is due out this year has ripped up that design and started afresh with the emphasis […]

News

Nicole Atkins records with “weirdest, craziest band ever”

February 14, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Nicole Atkins returns with a new album ‘Italian Ice‘ to be released on the 17th of April via Single Lock Records.  The title references her Asbury Park days, where the titular treat was available on the […]

Tracks

June Tabor and the Oyster Band “Valentine’s Day Is Over” – Listen

February 14, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Not, we admit, a new song but on special days, such as today’s worship of romantic love, exceptions can be made.  Can it really be thirty years since this interpretation of Billy Bragg’s classic song was […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 454 455 456 … 641 »

Donate to Americana UK

If you enjoy what you're reading and don't want to support us on a monthly basis, you can help us keep this site free from looking like one of those awful REACH sites by making a one off donation towards our running costs. We all do this in our spare time! THANK YOU.

our latest posts

Mavis Staples

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: 10-2

Features
December 22, 2025 0
Corinne West

For the sake of the song: Corinne West “Trouble No More”

Features
December 22, 2025 0

Boy & Bear “Tripping Over Time”

Album Reviews
December 22, 2025 0

Sounds from beyond the Shed 215 “Christmas Vinyl”

Columns
December 22, 2025 0

A year down the Tracks

Tracks
December 22, 2025 0

  • Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: 10-2
  • For the sake of the song: Corinne West “Trouble No More”
  • Boy & Bear “Tripping Over Time”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 215 “Christmas Vinyl”
  • A year down the Tracks
  • Video: Elles Bailey “Better Days”
  • Something for the weekend: Aimee Mann “I Was Thinking I Could Clean Up for Christmas”
  • Americana UK’s top 20 albums of 2025: 20-11
  • Jingle Bells Friday – next week, what do you mean next week?
  • Classic Clips: Jesse Sykes and The Sweet Hereafter “Come To Mary” – Live at KEXP, 1st August 2011
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Jonathan Smith: Thanks Nigel, much appreciated. So pleased there’s still so many Northern Exposure stalwarts out there
  • Jonathan Smith: Cheers Andy! It was just the perfect coming together of music and story, wasn’t it? I read an article recently…
  • Andy Short: Great set of songs, Jonathan, many of them were just outside my top ten, including your brilliant choice of number…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 0

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

Interviews

Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

Interviews

Interview: Brian Dunne asks is it so bad to want a good life?

December 9, 2025 0

While patiently waiting for Brian Dunne to get his due from those who listen to and hopefully buy physical media, it is worthwhile to linger in the brilliance of his fourth album, “Clams Casino” (Missing Piece, […]

You may have missed…

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 48

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 37

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

© Americana UK 2025, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool