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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Paul Kerr

October 9, 2025 Paul Kerr 2
Jeez! You sign up to Americana UK, thinking you’re on the road to hobnobbing with the stars in the VIP area at gigs, and then you’re thrown a curveball. Your top ten americana songs? First off, […]
Album Reviews

Neko Case “Neon Grey Midnight Green”

October 6, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
After an eight year absence Neko Case returns with a richly textured album. In the wake of her harrowing and well reviewed book “The Harder I Fight, The More I Love You: A Memoir” Neko Case delivers […]
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AUK award winner Nathan Bell announces American Outcast UK tour and new album

September 24, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
A past winner of the AUK readers’ Poll for Male Performer Of The Year, Nathan Bell has been a firm favourite in roots venues in the UK and in Europe ever since he ventured over here […]
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Features

Anniversary Cheers: Devendra Banhart’s breakout album “Cripple Crow” celebrates 20 years

September 18, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
A 20-year reissue of Devendra Banhart’s “Cripple Crow” adds little to the original release. 20 years on from its initial release, Devendra Banhart’s “Cripple Crow” gets an expanded update, the original 22 songs augmented by an […]
Album Reviews

Amanda Shires “Nobody’s Girl”

September 16, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Amanda Shires continues her flight into the mainstream. Following on from her adventurous 2022 album, “Take It Like A Man”, Amanda Shires continues to voyage well beyond her humble beginnings as a talented roots-based singer, writer […]

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Sarah McQuaid takes to the road again in the UK in November

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Levi Foster “Appalachian Funk Tree”

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Margo Cilker “Molly & Me” – and the devil’s right hand

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Video: Bird “The Lady Who Reads The Cards” – a strange but beautiful spiritual encounter

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Sarah McQuaid takes to the road again in the UK in November

September 23, 2026 0
With her new recording and rehearsal studio nearing completion, Sarah McQuaid is once again heading out on the road, this time for a 9-week, 36-show coast-to-coast US tour beginning on the 11th of September, and a […]
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Album Reviews

Levi Foster “Appalachian Funk Tree”

September 23, 2026 0
Levi Foster takes his yarn-spinning country tunes to the heart of Hollywood. After two EPs and the success of his critically-acclaimed first album, We Made Fire, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter who draws his inspiration from the likes […]
Tracks

Margo Cilker “Molly & Me” – and the devil’s right hand

September 23, 2026 0
Molly & Me is the latest single from the upcoming album from Margo Cilker, Little White Cross, which is out on October 9th via Fossil Records. Molly & Me starts out as a story about a teenage friendship […]

  • Sarah McQuaid takes to the road again in the UK in November
  • Levi Foster “Appalachian Funk Tree”
  • Margo Cilker “Molly & Me” – and the devil’s right hand
  • Video: Bird “The Lady Who Reads The Cards” – a strange but beautiful spiritual encounter
  • Mary Gauthier “Reckoning”
  • Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November
  • More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott
  • Dave Sutherland “Just Like a Black and White Film”
  • Lisa LeBlanc announces a new album and 2027 UK dates
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”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 […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Your last chance to vote for your own picks

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Voting in our readers choice closes at midnight GMT on Sunday November 4th. It’s going to be a close-run race, so every vote will count. Get yours in now! Click on the link to last week’s […]
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Cajun Corner – Dwayne Dopsie “Set Me Free”

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New music from one of the big names in Zydeco! It’s always good to celebrate the release of a new Zydeco album but it’s especially exciting when that album comes with a connection to one of […]
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Something for the weekend: Emily Barker & Lukas Drinkwater “Tomorrow”

February 11, 2022 1
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a new recording from Emily Barker & Lukas Drinkwater, a cover of a song by the classic Aussie band Silverchair, ‘Tomorrow’ […]

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