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Kathleen Edwards “Billionaire”

August 13, 2025 Guy Lincoln 1
Canadian Americana maven continues her impeccable ‘comeback’, with added Isbell. Listening to the powerful and joyous declaration that is “Billionaire” it is almost impossible to believe that Kathleen Edwards ever doubted her peerless station in the […]
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Marissa Nadler “New Radiations”

August 13, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0
Floating over cosmic terrors and earthly woes. It has been said that truly great artists can’t help but capture the spirit of their times. In recent years, it seems that a greater number of artists are […]
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Pat Carter “Love in the Time of Capitalism”

August 12, 2025 Andrew Raw 1
Socialist americana with powerful and empathetic words on the casualties of capitalism. Berlin-based Pat Carter is the “driving force” behind indie americana band Rodeo FM, who have produced four albums, with the last one being “Right […]
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Dan Cloutier “The Iceberg”

August 12, 2025 Andy Short 2
An album of hope in these dark times. New England-based Dan Cloutier travelled to Greenland, not to claim the land for the United States but to record his latest album. He took in Newfoundland, too, revelling […]
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Robert Scheffler “Truce”

August 11, 2025 Rick Thorn 0
A twenty-year wait for an adult, sometimes intimate, set of songs. “Truce” is New Yorker Sheffler’s third album; however, it is his first in almost twenty years. During that time, he worked as a freelance research […]

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Something for the weekend: Black Midi “Still”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year knees up featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and a whole load more americana, you can pick them […]
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Charley Crockett “Age of the Ram”

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Americana favourite delivers the final chapter of his adventurous Sagebrush Trilogy that concludes with the mythological and wide-ranging story of the ‘Outlaw’ Billy MacLane. Readers of Americana UK are likely to be very familiar with the […]
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Tift Merrit announces new album “Sugar”

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Listen to the first single to be taken from it below. Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt has announced Sugar, her first album in nearly a decade, due out June 26th via One Riot which is described as […]

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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]
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Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]

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Video: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit “Hope The High Road”

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Jason Isbell will be back in the UK in October and ahead of those dates this is a new live video for Hope The High Road, taken from his The Nashville Sound album released earlier this […]
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The Watersons “John Barleycorn” – Frost and Fire Revisited

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The Watersons – Norma, Mike and Lal Waterson and their cousin, John Harrison – put out ‘Frost And Fire: A Calendar of Ritual and Magical Songs’ in 1965 after going through a particularly arduous audition process […]
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It’s hard not to tap your feet and smile when The Mavericks perform.  This is the first single from the band’s first ever collection of Spanish-language songs, a mixture of originals and Latin classics.  ‘En Español’ […]

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