Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • 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
    • I Write the Songs
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • 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
  • Archive
    • Americana Bedrock
    • Americana Roots
    • AmericanA to Z
    • A Night to Remember
    • Dirty Dozens
    • Home Life
    • Lost Albums
    • Political Pops
    • Shuffle
    • Small Venue Heroes
    • Studio Life
    • The Other Side of Me
    • The Twang Factor
    • Top 10 albums ever
    • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
    • Unsung Heroes
    • Van Life
    • Whatever Happened To…
    • What Should I Do…
    • WITATA
Our latest posts
  • [ July 9, 2025 ] Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: The Chicks Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
  • [ July 9, 2025 ] Lavinia Blackwall “The Making” Album Reviews
  • [ July 9, 2025 ] Live Review: Tift Merritt, Oslo, London – 25th June 2025 Live Reviews
  • [ July 9, 2025 ] Video: Anthony Ruptak “Ptarmigan” Videos
  • [ July 9, 2025 ] Neko Case to release her first album in seven years News
HomeFeaturesClassic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums

Americana UK takes you through the classic albums of the genre

artwork for Colvin & Earle classic album
Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle “Colvin & Earle”

May 19, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle discovered they had a lot more in common than being respected recording artists in the Americana and folk genres. They both have struggled with addiction (Earle heroin and a smorgasbord of […]

artwork for Journal of Plague Year feature
Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Tom Rapp “A Journal of the Plague Year”

March 12, 2025 Dean Nardi 2

A contributory article to an occasional series. Italo Calvino, the eminent Italian writer, once wrote, “The more we think we know the classics through hearsay, the more original, unexpected, and innovative we find them when we […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Lou Ann Barton “Old Enough”

February 28, 2024 Tim Martin 1

In 1982 Linda Ronstatdt’s ‘Get Closer’ failed to go platinum and it looked like her career might have peaked. Jerry Wexler of Elektra/Asylum Records had found Lou Ann Barton working with Stevie Ray Vaughan’s Double Trouble, […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Trish Murphy “Crooked Mile”

February 21, 2024 Paul Russell 4

Debut albums from an unknown artist are always not only difficult to make, but also challenging to market and get decent sales. Trish Murphy is a Houston native and her father was a struggling musician as […]

artwork for Maria McKee album "Maria McKee"
Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Maria McKee “Maria McKee”

February 14, 2024 Graeme Tait 8

By the time her eponymous debut solo album was released during the summer of 1989 Maria McKee was still only 24 years old, and yet for close on a decade she had become the voice and […]

Posts pagination

1 2 … 38 »

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.

our latest posts

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: The Chicks

Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
July 9, 2025 0

Lavinia Blackwall “The Making”

Album Reviews
July 9, 2025 0

Live Review: Tift Merritt, Oslo, London – 25th June 2025

Live Reviews
July 9, 2025 0

Video: Anthony Ruptak “Ptarmigan”

Videos
July 9, 2025 0
Neko Case

Neko Case to release her first album in seven years

News
July 9, 2025 0

  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: The Chicks
  • Lavinia Blackwall “The Making”
  • Live Review: Tift Merritt, Oslo, London – 25th June 2025
  • Video: Anthony Ruptak “Ptarmigan”
  • Neko Case to release her first album in seven years
  • Ledfoot “Plain Simple Honesty”
  • Mal Blum “The Villain” – don’t feel like Satan…
  • Video Premiere: Jack & Daisy “Barcelona (In The Rear View)”
  • Madison Violet to embark upon farewell tour of UK and Ireland after 25 years
  • The David Mayfield Parade “Go Big and Go Home”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Celtic Connections 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 Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Graeme Tait: Hi Graeme. Glad you enjoyed the article, and yes, by all accounts her plan is to come back and visit…
  • Graeme Tait: Hi Chris. Glad you enjoyed the article. I was aware of your connection with Nick, as it was a Rachel…
  • Bill Scorzari: Thanks, Alan! More coming soon! -Bill S.

Latest interviews

artwork Michelle Billingsley interview
Interviews

Interview: Michelle Billingsley on honky-tonkin’ and two-steppin’

July 2, 2025 0

It was a windy, wintry January day in Chicago when June, Michelle Billingsley’s 50-pound Australian Shepherd, jumped up beside her on the couch. “Yeah, she saw me putting on my makeup, which usually means I’m going […]

artwork Swarme of Beese interview
Interviews

Interview: Swarme of Beese finds more poetry in darkness than in light

June 30, 2025 0

The term mutant folk seems to fit. In the band’s early days, before The Victor Mourning emerged from the pupa into an adult Swarme of Beese, their songs elicited unusual receptions. Co-songwriter Lynne Adele recalls performing […]

artwork Sean McConnell interview
Interviews

Interview: Sean McConnell on taking a journey underneath the skin

June 26, 2025 0

Looking at the cover artwork for Sean McConnell’s latest album “Skin” (Silent Desert Music, 2025), you might think he has a fixation on tattoos, what with the drawing of a hand covered in ink art from […]

You may have missed…

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 48

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 34

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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