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
    • 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
  • Forum
  • 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
  • [ February 13, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Kentucky Too Long” Videos
  • [ February 13, 2026 ] Sky Smeed “Live at Rock House” Album Reviews
  • [ February 13, 2026 ] Love – is it all there is? Tracks
  • [ February 13, 2026 ] Classic Clips: Tom Russell “The Last Time I Saw Hank” – Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, 16th September 2017 Classic Clips
  • [ February 13, 2026 ] Book Review: Jay Nachman with Graham Parker and The Rumour “Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind” Book Reviews
HomeAuthorsPeter Feldon

Articles by Peter Feldon

Live Reviews

Live Review: Christina Martin, Green Note, London, 7th March 2024

March 19, 2024 Peter Feldon 2

The Green Note is a purveyor of fine music from many of the genres with their origins in the 20th century –  and Christina Martin’s songs weave through several of them. Some of the songs on […]

Reviews

AMAUK AmericanaFest Conference: “Finding Lucinda” film screening – 23rd January 2024, Hackney

March 4, 2024 Peter Feldon 0

It’s been a month since the AMAUK held their annual Americana Fest. We mentioned the awards here but mopping up our coverage our reviewer attended a screening of director Joel Fendelman’s film Finding Lucinda which was […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: The War and Treaty + Foreign Affairs, Omeara, London – 1st September 2023

September 13, 2023 Peter Feldon 0

 The headliners exploded onto the stage with a barrage of songs including ‘Lover’s Game’ from their latest album and culminating in a cover of ‘Proud Mary’ with a performance that left the audience gasping. More songs […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Julian Taylor + Michele Stodart, Water Rats, Kings Cross, London, 3rd August 2023

August 11, 2023 Peter Feldon 1

A great show that went from troubadour to rock star. Julian Taylor and his band (the core of the AMA-UK 2023 Awards house band) were a revelation for those who saw him performing solo earlier this […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Static Roots Festival, Oberhausen, Germany – 7th-8th July 2023

July 20, 2023 Peter Feldon 4

Euro-Americana lives – in Germany! Fans came from many countries in Europe to enjoy this mini festival, with a great line-up of performers. You will want to know a little bit a about the artists that […]

Posts pagination

« 1 2 3 4 »

Donate to Americana UK

If you enjoy what you're reading and don't want to support us on a monthly basis, you can help us keep this site free from looking like one of those awful REACH sites by making a one off donation towards our running costs. We all do this in our spare time! THANK YOU.

Recent Forum Posts

  • RE: New Sturgill, oops, new Johnny Blues Skies I mean

    Loved his last album, find his other stuff bland

    By Andy Short , 8 hours ago

  • RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    Binge-watched Small Prophets and loved it. I'm generall...

    By Viv Fish , 11 hours ago

  • RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    I came to the Detectorists a bit late, but have watched...

    By Martin Johnson , 15 hours ago

  • RE: New Sturgill, oops, new Johnny Blues Skies I mean

    Love and hate is good I think, Paul. Much better than a...

    By Martin Johnson , 15 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Various Artists - Strum & Thrum: The American Jangl...

    By Joe Nathan , 21 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    The Smithereens - Especially For You

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    The Del Fuegos - The Longest Day

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    Small Prophets, binge watch heaven. Who knew DUY shops ...

    By Andy Short , 2 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Bloodshot Records - Pro live and anti love playlist for...

    By Andy Short , 2 days ago

our latest posts

Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Kentucky Too Long”

Videos
February 13, 2026 1

Sky Smeed “Live at Rock House”

Album Reviews
February 13, 2026 0

Love – is it all there is?

Tracks
February 13, 2026 0

Classic Clips: Tom Russell “The Last Time I Saw Hank” – Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, 16th September 2017

Classic Clips
February 13, 2026 1

Book Review: Jay Nachman with Graham Parker and The Rumour “Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind”

Book Reviews
February 13, 2026 0

  • Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Kentucky Too Long”
  • Sky Smeed “Live at Rock House”
  • Love – is it all there is?
  • Classic Clips: Tom Russell “The Last Time I Saw Hank” – Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, 16th September 2017
  • Book Review: Jay Nachman with Graham Parker and The Rumour “Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind”
  • Preview: Blues guitarist extraordinaire Samantha Fish heads to UK for dates
  • The latest AUK Podcast now live featuring not one but two interviews!
  • Track Premiere: Eric Brandt “Size Of Diamonds”
  • Video Premiere: Zoe FitzGerald Carter “Lying Voices” – the consequences of all that endless lying
  • Top Ten Americana Songs Of All Time: Keith Hargreaves
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
  • Mark Whitfield: Thanks for raising this Thomas, we do take this kind of thing seriously - you will see from most of…
  • Kenny: How's Tom doing? Heard he's been unwell.
  • Thomas Stephens: I'm no DEI fanatic by not having not one woman on the list is absurd? Where is Loretta Lynn, Lucinda…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 1

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

Behind the Songs

Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

Interviews

Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

You may have missed…

News

Rufus Wainwright reveals new folk album out in June

March 9, 2023 0

Rufus Wainwright has announced ‘Folkocracy‘ will be released on  June 2nd via BMG. This is the Canadian-American’s 11th album that comes after ‘Unfollow the Rules‘ was released in 2020. ‘Folkocracy‘ includes the new single ‘Down in […]

Album Reviews

Levellers “We The Collective” (On The Fiddle Recordings, 2018)

April 6, 2018 0

It is easy to forget just how much commercial success Levellers have had; in the 1990s they had more platinum, gold and silver albums in the UK than any other British act. Testament to the appeal […]

News

Danny and the Champs announce new live album “Los Campeones En Vivo”

March 19, 2021 1

Hopefully it won’t be too long now before you can tut at someone in your favourite venue for breathing too heavily during a barely audible solo, but until then, soulful country-rockers Danny & The Champions of […]

© Americana UK 2025, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool