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For The Sake Of The Song: Stateside “You Were Made For Me”

February 17, 2025 Paul Russell 0
The hope for a band trying to establish themselves is to get that elusive big record deal. The ability to get your music heard by a wide audience and the financial and artistic rewards that go […]
Album Reviews

Mary Bue “The Wildness of Living and Dying”

February 14, 2025 Paul Russell 0
Album nine for Minneapolis singer, yogi and retreat guide. You have to hand it to Mary Bue – her utterly focused mission to make highly personal music that links into her other ventures as a yogi […]
Features

Anniversary Cheers: The Blasters re-release “Over There – Live at The Venue” and celebrate their 45th birthday

February 3, 2025 Paul Russell 1
45 years after their formation, The Blasters re-release the full concert at The Venue in London, with 11 additional tracks. Back in 1979 in America, a new band formed, gloriously ignoring the current musical trends of […]
Album Reviews

Hotel Art “Elevator Music”

January 16, 2025 Paul Russell 0
Wonderful and charming debut of latest Boo Hewerdine project. When you’ve got the honeyed vocal talents of Boo Hewerdine, it’s a shame to limit oneself to a single project. So since his debut back in 1986 […]
Album Reviews

Finn “The Waterfall”

December 19, 2024 Paul Russell 0
Album nine for Melbourne brothers’ with a  lengthy, gentle collection. As a musician, it really helps if one’s parents bring you up in a musical environment and brothers Mark and Luke Finn grew up in suburban […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

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Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

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Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October

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Kacy Lee Anderson to release debut solo album

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Lance Cowan “The Air That You Breathe”

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Ray Charles, Willie Nelson
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For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

August 10, 2026 1
Seven Spanish Angels is a song which encapsulates a full range of americana imagery – doomed love, defiance, outlaws, faith, mystery and death – all set in an undescribed location that calls up the settings for […]
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Album Reviews

Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

August 10, 2026 0
A moving, beautifully crafted collection of songs that refuses to surrender compassion in a fractured world. Chris Pierce has always possessed one of the finest voices in americana, capable of conveying tenderness, conviction and quiet resilience […]
News

Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October

August 10, 2026 0
Western folk singer-songwriter and AUK favourite Margo Cilker has announced her third album, Little White Cross, due out October 9 via Fossil Records, a label Cilker recently launched with fellow musician ISMAY. The upcoming 10-song set […]

  • For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”
  • Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”
  • Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October
  • Kacy Lee Anderson to release debut solo album
  • Lance Cowan “The Air That You Breathe”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 248 “Too much good stuff…”
  • Jim James “Wowed Out” – wow, wow, wow – unbelievable
  • Video Premiere: Brock Davis “All of You”
  • Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”
  • Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]

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The Waterboys “Life, Death Dennis Hopper”

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Scott’s conceptual eulogy to Dennis Hopper, played out in ‘freak mode’, man. It might be considered a sign of a worthy, even great, artist who after 46 years of releasing records can still produce an LP […]
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AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Number 7 – Johnny Cash “American Recordings”

March 11, 2021 0
With three great albums already unveiled, we now reach Number 7 in our countdown of the top 10 americana albums ever. Andrew Frolish gives his assessment of the extraordinary work that reignited Johnny Cash’s career and built on […]
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Jeff Hulett “Spin Your Wheels” – don’t waste your time on me, I’m just fine

March 11, 2022 0
Speaking of Jeff Hulett’s latest two song-single Mark Whitfield (acclaimed award winning editor of Americana UK) has said “I Loved Snowglobe, one of my fave bands I’ve discovered in all the years of AUK – both of […]

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