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Editor of Americana UK website, the UK's leading home for americana news and reviews since 2001 (when life was simpler, at least for the first 253 days)
Features

Win tickets to Ramblin’ Roots Review with AUK

February 19, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Probably the best value americana festival in the UK lands again this year just after Easter so you can boogie away those calories – The three-day indoor Ramblin Roots Revue music festival returns to High Wycombe for a […]
News

Listen to The Low Anthem’s new album in full via NPR

February 16, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
NPR music tend to stream some amazing stuff these days and the new album from The Low Anthem is no exception, although it may well surprise you.  They report: “I can’t think of another album that […]
Tracks

Ryan Adams releases Valentine’s Day single online – Listen

February 14, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Ryan Adams has a shot of V-Day love for the world this year with the release of a special Valentine’s Day single today. ‘Baby I Love You’ is exactly what it sounds like: a song to someone’s […]
News

Rod Picott lands in UK for tour next month

February 14, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Rod Picott has been recording for 17 years now which is almost as long as this century’s been around, his debut album ‘Tiger Tom Dixon’s Blues’ putting a nail in the coffin of his construction career […]
News

Maverick Festival announces 2018 line-up

February 14, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Maverick Festival, nothing to do with the magazine in case you’re worried about being trapped in a line dancing, er, square for 3 days (this may have been a dream…) have announced their 2018 line-up which […]

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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

Interviews
July 16, 2026 0

Extra tickets released for Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn – Liverpool in November

News
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Creekbed Carter Hogan “Peasants Revolt”

Album Reviews
July 16, 2026 0
Jess Williamson

There’s a new album on a new label on the way from Jess Williamson

News
July 16, 2026 0

Americana Stories – Gary Marsden “Rialto and Rhiannon”

Features
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Interviews

Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
News

Extra tickets released for Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn – Liverpool in November

July 16, 2026 0
If you’ve tried to buy tickets for Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of this website which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House later this year on Saturday November […]
Album Reviews

Creekbed Carter Hogan “Peasants Revolt”

July 16, 2026 0
Musings on the state of the world, now and in the past, the solution is in the hot dog. When an album announces itself as “a rollicking medieval-Americana manuscript” it’s clear that we shouldn’t take anything […]

  • Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for
  • Extra tickets released for Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn – Liverpool in November
  • Creekbed Carter Hogan “Peasants Revolt”
  • There’s a new album on a new label on the way from Jess Williamson
  • Americana Stories – Gary Marsden “Rialto and Rhiannon”
  • Brand New Heartache “A New Alchemy”
  • The Suitcase Junket “One More Mile” – take that step
  • Video: John Carter Cash “Pineapple John” – finding yourself in the sea’s reflection
  • Preview: James Taylor returns to the UK
  • Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”
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  • Graeme Tait: Hi Tricia. Yes, it is a gorgeous track, and by far the most uptempo and muscular arrangement on the album.…

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Interviews

Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

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Previews

Preview: Static Roots Festival, Oberhausen, Germany 10th -12th July 2025

June 12, 2025 1
Germany’s premier americana gathering is entering its 9th year with an expanded venue and extended programming. With its signature “living room atmosphere”, Static Roots made the decision to expand into a larger room within Oberhausen’s Zentrum […]
Live Reviews

Mavis Staples, Union Chapel, London, 10th July 2018

July 16, 2018 0
Mavis Staples is a living legend – recent Americana Grammy winner, Jeff Tweedy collaborator, mainstay of STAX Records, civil rights activist, the list goes on. And thankfully a legend that has not been diminished by time.  […]
Interviews

Interview – Amy Boone

September 17, 2019 1
When Delines singer Amy Boone was hit by a car in a devastating freak accident in April 2016, it looked like her singing and touring career might well be over. Indeed, Willy Vlautin the band’s engine […]

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