Paul Kerr

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, […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 0

The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]

Cover art for Tucker Zimmerman album "Dream Me A Dream"

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

July 27, 2026 0

Posthumous studio album from literate Californian singer-songwriter turns dreams into songs, providing a fitting epitaph for one of life’s truly great maverick artists. The sub-zero temperatures that covered the bulk of the UK during the first […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

July 27, 2026 0

Several years ago, while still teaching, my morning routine took me to the local swimming pool at six thirty every morning, where I would pull on some awful budgie smugglers and swim a kilometre at a […]

Articles by Paul Kerr

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Paul Kerr

Neko Case “Neon Grey Midnight Green”

AUK award winner Nathan Bell announces American Outcast UK tour and new album

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

Amanda Shires “Nobody’s Girl”

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

Morton Valence “So Far Away” – all the distance inbetween

Video: James White & The Wild Fire “The Girl From Fort Worth” – peace on the other side