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Buddy Miller’s Crib: Studio Tour – Watch

June 28, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
We leave you this weekend dear reader with a nice little clip of Buddy Miller showing Aaron Lee Tasjan around his fairly amazing studio. Kind of like a musical grotto. Earlier this week, Buddy and Julie […]
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Rachel Harrington arrives in UK next week for dates

June 28, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Pacific Northwest-based Americana singer-songwriter Rachel Harrington arrives in the UK next week for a full tour, including appearances at the Maverick Festival, SummerTyne Americana and Beer and Bluegrass, with further dates to follow in the Netherlands […]
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Songs for the apocalypse: Aimee Mann “Going Through the Motions”

June 27, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
I first saw Aimee Mann back in the early 90s twice in Liverpool – once at the Royal Court supporting someone I now can’t remember and once at a jazz club on Hope Street whose name […]
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Nathan Bell announces new album, UK dates

June 27, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Tennessee big-hitter Nathan Bell has just completed his latest record after embarking on the project in California with Brian Brinkerhoff (Malcolm Holcombe, Guitar Shorty, etc) and Frank Swart (producer of the Pixies and bassist for Patty […]
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“Sonic Pioneers” 3hattrio announce UK summer dates

June 26, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Utah “desert music” band 3hattrio count Tom Russell, Steve Martin and Martha Scanlan as fans, the former of which has described them as “sonic pioneers”, and they’ve just announced some UK dates for August and September, […]

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Famously, we don’t really cover the Blues here at Americana UK, and equally famously, we do cover Charlie Musselwhite, whose distinctive sound fits in well amongst proto-americana contemporaries. Which is by way of explanation for today’s […]
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Video: Brown Horse “Comeback Loading” – dumb, ironic t-shirt slogans to something more real

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In the video for Brown Horse’s latest single, the band is stranded in the tour van before they work together to tune up the van and get back on the road. It’s a light-hearted visual inspired […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]

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We are huge fans of Passenger around these parts and it’s hard to believe that it’s eleven years ago now that Mike Rosenberg released his breakthrough album ‘All The Little Lights’. The years leading up to […]
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Cory Hanson “I Love People”

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Sunlit Laurel Canyon vibes with a dark undertow. Cory Hanson originally came to attention through leading the psychedelic garage rock band Wand, but he has simultaneously led a solo career, and “I Love People” is his […]
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Video Premiere: Steve Forbert “Sound Existence”

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It’s an absolute pleasure to premiere the latest single from legendary singer-songwriter Steve Forbert.  ‘Sound Existence’ begins with Forbert’s bright, rhythmic strum, backed by the hanging notes of Rob Clores’ keys, a fine player who has […]

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