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Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival returns next month

May 14, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
The Rotterdam Bluegrass Festival is being held this year at the historic Pijnackerplein in Rotterdam-Noord. With 14,000 visitors in 2018, the three-day music festival is the biggest bluegrass festival in Europe and features an international line-up […]
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Sam Outlaw announces new EP, UK dates

May 13, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
The lovelier than roses singer-songwriter Sam Outlaw released brand new music the day he took to the Grand Ole Opry stage for the first time, in his new hometown of Music City. His EP ‘Hat Acts’ […]
Tracks

Buddy and Julie Miller “I’m Gonna Make You Love Me” – Listen

May 10, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
We leave you this weekend dear reader with this new song from Buddy and Julie Miller’s forthcoming album ‘Breakdown on 20th Avenue’. Sadly it’s not a cover of the Jayhawk classic,  but their first single to […]
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Curtis Eller brings his American Circus to the UK

May 10, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Curtis Eller describes himself as a banjo player, songwriter and rock & roll singer, and you can see that trilogy of talents come together at a show near you from the end of this month when […]
Features

Songs for the apocalypse: Jason McNiff “I Remember You”

May 8, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Way back when I first started running AUK back in the early 2000s, promos of CDs started to trickle through the letterbox – some were great, others were let’s say over-confident, but occasionally something would hit […]

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The (Dixie) Chicks at Madison Square Garden, New York, 20th June 2003

Anniversary Cheers: The Chicks “Taking The Long Way” celebrates 20 years

Anniversary Cheers
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Live Review: My Darling Clementine, Hen & Chicken, Bristol – 1st October 2026

Live Reviews
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Cover art for Sally Jaye album "You'll Be Okay, Baby"

Sally Jaye “You’ll Be Okay, Baby”

Album Reviews
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Kelly Hunt “Requiem for a Sleepless Night”

Album Reviews
October 7, 2026 0

Béla Fleck “Tennessee” – with Billy Strings (and a lot of others)

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The (Dixie) Chicks at Madison Square Garden, New York, 20th June 2003
Anniversary Cheers

Anniversary Cheers: The Chicks “Taking The Long Way” celebrates 20 years

October 7, 2026 0
The Chicks re-release their wonderful 2026 ‘comeback’ album on triple vinyl and streaming platforms, with extra tracks and demos. In 2006, after a four-year break (ostensibly for family and parenting reasons), The Dixie Chicks, as they […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: My Darling Clementine, Hen & Chicken, Bristol – 1st October 2026

October 7, 2026 0
During the evening, Lou Dalgleish described some of the songs they were playing as “hard on the heart,” and they were, but there were also uplifting moments that proved the redemptive powers of music. Having lost […]
Cover art for Sally Jaye album "You'll Be Okay, Baby"
Album Reviews

Sally Jaye “You’ll Be Okay, Baby”

October 7, 2026 0
Twenty years after the release of her solo debut, Amarillo, Jaye returns with an album that serves as a timely reminder of her craft as a singer-songwriter. Back in 2006, Sally Jaye released her debut album, […]

  • Anniversary Cheers: The Chicks “Taking The Long Way” celebrates 20 years
  • Live Review: My Darling Clementine, Hen & Chicken, Bristol – 1st October 2026
  • Sally Jaye “You’ll Be Okay, Baby”
  • Kelly Hunt “Requiem for a Sleepless Night”
  • Béla Fleck “Tennessee” – with Billy Strings (and a lot of others)
  • Video: The War On Drugs “Who’s That” – love outside of control
  • New release from Neal Casal archives due in November
  • “A lovely, thoughtful and humorous man” – Americana UK remembers Martin Johnson
  • Bap Kennedy “Above All, Love”
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
Interviews

Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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Videos

Video Premiere: Katy Tessman “Ghost Ranch”

September 12, 2025 0
Minneapolis singer-songwriter Katy Tessman delivers her new video via Americana UK.  The atmospheric ‘Ghost Ranch’, featuring ethereal backing vocals and languid guitar twanging in the desert heat, is built around Tessman’s striking country voice – it’s […]
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The Stands main man strikes out on his own

March 21, 2017 0
Howie Payne, formerly of Liverpool band The Stands has announced his first solo tour with his live outfit The Band of The Sun and the release of ‘The Stands, Recordings 2003-2005’, a boxset collection of rarities, B […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Jason McNiff & Tobias Panwitz “Impossible to Love”

July 1, 2025 0
Old friends Jason McNiff and Berlin’s Tobias Panwitz deliver an infectious new single with ‘Impossible to Love’. This excellent co-write explores the theme of human relationships and miscommunication. The singers deliver their lines in their native […]

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