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Grant Lee Phillips brings “Widdershins” to the UK next year

December 19, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Grant Lee Phillips (nee Buffalo)’s new album “Widdershins” named after former Tory MP and Strictly contestant Ann Widdershins is out on Yep Roc on Feb 23rd over here – and he’s announced some UK dates to […]
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Mandolin Orange announce UK dates

December 18, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
North Carolina folky americanay duo Mandolin Orange, named after the respective instruments they both play, are the sort of band you could take home to meet your mum and have announced some UK dates for January […]
Tracks

Album premiere: Eagle Johnson & Clean Machine “Tennessee Beach”

December 18, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
We’re premiering the rather fantastic new album from Nashville’s Eagle Johnson & Clean Machine this morning, the best artist called Eagle since Eye Cherry and a band who make “raw, left-of-center rock & roll” (we like all […]
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The Americans can be yours again – more UK dates announced

December 15, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Los Angeles quartet The Americans, whose latest album “I’ll Be Yours” has been garnering some nice press, seem to like us quite a lot at the moment (maybe it’s to make up for their President) and are […]
Tracks

Pedigo’s Magic Pilsner “Orion” – Listen

December 15, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
If you glance quickly at the title of this track you might think it’s called “Onion” which in our opinion would be better suited as it’s so lovely it’ll make you cry.  Dallas-based Americana group Pedigo’s Magic […]

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Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking

Classic Clips
July 17, 2026 0

Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”

Book Reviews
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Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

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Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?

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The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Paul Sexton

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Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking

July 17, 2026 0
We’ve been lucky enough here at Americana UK to have been aware of Anna Tivel and her astonishing songwriting pretty much from her emergence into the folk/singer-songwriter/americana combined genres. We haven’t been shy with our praise […]
Book Reviews

Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”

July 17, 2026 0
When Dennis McNally published A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead in 2002, he had an almost impossible task. It needed to document a band whose history was already wrapped in layers […]
News

Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

July 17, 2026 1
Or England tour to be precise. Tickets on sale from next Wednesday 22nd July. You may have heard of this artist we’ve mentioned on the site once or twice who goes by the name of Bob […]

  • Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking
  • Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”
  • Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour
  • Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Paul Sexton
  • Convinced Friend “On Fire” – get the extinguishers
  • Video: Stephen Wilson Jr. “Gary”
  • 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”
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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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Splendid solo debut where house move has really paid off. Geography seems to be a vital component for many musicians and Lauren Morrow’s personal upheaval in 2017 seems to have worked wonders. Previously,  Morrow had been […]
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Something for the weekend: World Party “Put the Message in the Box”

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Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a track from World Party, the band fronted by its one consistent member Karl Wallinger who died earlier this week, and […]
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The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Steve Hewitt

November 10, 2025 0
Our next contestant in the Twang Factor 4 series is Steve Hewitt, a singer-songwriter hailing from Kent. Inspired by an eclectic array of artists including David Gray, Bob Dylan, Blaze Foley, Fink, Townes Van Zandt and John Legend, Hewitt has evolved into a […]

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