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
    • Fiction
    • 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
  • 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
  • [ August 7, 2026 ] Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My” Videos
  • [ August 7, 2026 ] Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free Interviews
  • [ August 7, 2026 ] Margo Price “Days of Unrest” Album Reviews
  • [ August 7, 2026 ] Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012 Classic Clips
  • [ August 7, 2026 ] The Wild High “Listen to The Wild High” Album Reviews
HomeAuthorsMark Johnson

Articles by Mark Johnson

News

Jessie Buckley’s star bursts in new movie ‘Wild Rose’

March 27, 2019 Mark Johnson 0
We’ve got news of a new movie coming out next month which you’ll probably want to put on your “to do” list along with verruca plasters and noodles. With a UK release of April 12th, ‘Wild […]
Features

AmericanA-Z – The Jayhawks

March 26, 2019 Mark Johnson 6
Though the roots of Americana go back decades, it was the early 1990s when the sounds we love started to coalesce into a proto-genre. Generally viewed then as alt-country, two bands on the same circuit emerged […]
Album Reviews

Swimming Bell “Wild Sight” (Adventure Club Records, 2019)

March 20, 2019 Mark Johnson 0
Swimming Bell is the solo project of Brooklyn based Katie Schottland, ‘Wild Sight’ the debut album following her ‘The Golden Heart’ EP in 2017. That this gentle music carries nothing of the metropolis is perhaps explained […]
Album Reviews

Dave Ernst “Hickory Switch” (Eastwood Records, 2019)

March 1, 2019 Mark Johnson 0
After nearly three decades in numerous Louisville, Kentucky bands, Dave Ernst releases his debut solo album, and has got it just right. Short and snappy, with no room for filler, Ernst includes six of his own […]
Album Reviews

Vandoliers “Forever” (Bloodshot, 2019)

February 27, 2019 Mark Johnson 0
All six band members of this Dallas-Fort Worth troupe have a VFFV tattoo (Vandoliers Forever, Forever Vandoliers). Now that’s a sign of commitment, which is evidenced immediately on this album by raucous enthusiasm.Vandoliers’  third album is […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 7 8 9 … 12 »

our latest posts

Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

Videos
August 7, 2026 0

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

Interviews
August 7, 2026 0

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

Album Reviews
August 7, 2026 0
The Mavericks in May 202o

Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012

Classic Clips
August 7, 2026 1
Wild High 'Listen To...' cover art

The Wild High “Listen to The Wild High”

Album Reviews
August 7, 2026 1
Videos

Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

August 7, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm. We leave you dear reader with a new song from Nate Amos aka This […]
Interviews

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0
At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]
Album Reviews

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

August 7, 2026 0
A powerful message that’s relayed with the kind of vigour and skill needed to make people sit up and listen. “In his oval room, in his rockin’ chair / He’s the president, but I don’t care […]

  • Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”
  • Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free
  • Margo Price “Days of Unrest”
  • Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012
  • The Wild High “Listen to The Wild High”
  • Our new supporters playlist is out later today – win tickets to see Dawn Landes live
  • The latest AUK Podcast featuring Dogwood Tales is available now
  • Icarus Phoenix “Choke” – and now I can barely speak
  • Video Premiere: Izzie Walsh “I Need You More”
  • Essentials: The Top 10 Samantha Crain Songs
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
  • Andy Short: :) All these years and after many visits to the states I never knew. Works on both levels though. I…
  • Adam: Grandma’s Apple pie. It’s a pie brand sold in supermarkets.
  • Alan Peatfield: Still sorely missed round these parts.

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0
At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0
Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]

You may have missed…

Album Reviews

Josh Geffin “Hold on to the Light”

June 24, 2022 0
Another beautiful set from this indie folk singer-songwriter, borne out of meditations on lockdown. After finding favour with AUK a couple of years back with his last EP ‘Islands’, Josh Geffin, still relatively unknown, has come […]
Videos

Video: Ben Harper “Inland Empire”

September 22, 2020 0
Simply, breathtakingly beautiful.  Ben Harper is an incredibly talented performer and, here, he shows how the lap steel guitar can be used to create musical poetry.  It needs no words.  Harper has just announced the release […]
Videos

Video: Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats “You Worry Me”

March 14, 2018 0
From his latest album Tearing At the Seams comes this confident slice of of Americana-cum-old school R&B from Nathaniel Rateliff.

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool