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Classic Clips: The Delines “Maureen’s Gone Missing” 2022

February 21, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Recorded at Vanløse Stairway, Denmark. It’s a surprise, but a very pleasant one, that at my advanced age I can still get excited about the pending release of an album, or a tour, (or preferably both) […]

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Classic Clips: Dwight Yoakam “Little Ways”- Austin City Limits, 1988

February 14, 2025 Peter Thompson 2

Singer/songwriter Dwight Yoakam was raised in Columbus, Ohio; however his family’s background relates to Kentucky, its coal mining community and the influence of the Appalachian Mountains. Never one to follow the Nashville musical trends, Yoakam has […]

Classic Clips: Stephen Bruton with The Resentments “Heart Of Hearts” 2006

January 31, 2025 Martin Johnson 2

We look back at a clip from The Laboratorium Stuttgart, 7th December 2006. Stephen Bruton was an exceptionally talented guitarist and songwriter who is better known today as a supporting musician who worked with the likes […]

Classic Clips: Jason Isbell “Pancho and Lefty”, 2018

January 17, 2025 FredArnold 0

Isbell performed at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum for the ‘Outlaws and Armadillos’ exhibition. When you combine the superlative talents of Jason Isbell (now Americana’s favourite son) and Townes van Zandt, one of […]

Classic Clips: Nanci Griffith with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “On Grafton Street”’ filmed in Austin, Texas, 1997

December 13, 2024 Andy Short 7

Ever since hearing Nanci Griffith belt out ‘Ford Econoline’ on the NME “Tape With No Name” in 1987, Griffith has been one of my most loved female artists. Her storytelling and poetry were special, and sadly, […]

Jim James “Wowed Out”

August 25, 2026 1

Jim James escapes information overload through beauty and hope. We’re living in an age of information overload, where almost everything is aimed at shocking or amazing us. Wowed Out is where Jim James thinks our brains […]

Foy Vance to release multi-part new album and play autumn tour dates

August 25, 2026 0

Emmy-winning singer-songwriter Foy Vance has announced his eighth studio album, IF, for release on 30th April 2027. Described as an autobiography in album form, IF will be released in three parts, with each part arriving as […]

Sian & Rob Colquhoun “Sourwood Honey”

August 25, 2026 0

Sian & Rob Colquhoun’s debut album is a return to roots for die-hard old-time fans. Out of Wiltshire in the Southwest of England comes a bridge over the Atlantic. Like others before them, folk duo Sian […]

Interviews

Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the weird in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 0

It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

Interviews

Interview: Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester on why “It’s A Joy To Be Alive”

August 19, 2026 0

One thing everyone quickly learns as they get older is that time waits for no one, and that life continues its unstoppable flow forward. Americana UK has followed Ferris & Sylvester’s career since their first album, […]

Interviews

Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0

Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]

Album Reviews

The Strumbrellas “Rattlesnake” (Glassnote Records, 2019)

April 12, 2019 0

This Canadian six piece seem to be popular on the US festival scene and even a cursory listen to ‘Rattlesnake’ will tell you why. The songs have a danceable quality to them while singer Simon Ward […]

Videos

Video: Larkin Poe “Bad Spell” (Acoustic)

September 25, 2023 0

Here’s something a little different from GRAMMY-nominated sister duo Larkin Poe. The Nashville-based Rebecca and Megan Lovell are usually to be found with electric guitars in hand, delivering bluesy riffs with edge and energy – check […]

AmericanA to Z

AmericanA to Z – Carolina Chocolate Drops

February 5, 2019 1

It’s easy to think that the Carolina Chocolate Drops were all about “reclaiming the banjo” and taking back a strand of American vernacular music of the 19th and early 20th centuries that had been culturally appropriated. […]

Classic Clips: The Delines “Maureen’s Gone Missing” 2022

Classic Clips: Dwight Yoakam “Little Ways”- Austin City Limits, 1988

Classic Clips: Stephen Bruton with The Resentments “Heart Of Hearts” 2006

Classic Clips: Jason Isbell “Pancho and Lefty”, 2018

Classic Clips: Nanci Griffith with The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band “On Grafton Street”’ filmed in Austin, Texas, 1997

Jim James “Wowed Out”

Foy Vance to release multi-part new album and play autumn tour dates

Sian & Rob Colquhoun “Sourwood Honey”

AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – August 2026

Sera Cahoone “I’ve Missed You All These Years”