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Essentials

Americana UK writers pick their top 10 essential albums or tracks by a favourite artist

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Essentials: The Top 10 Songs from Season Two of “The Bear”

September 11, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
There was an Essentials feature on season 1 of Hulu’s hit TV series “The Bear” posted back in June (2025). Much has changed leading into season 2. Picking up seemingly days after the first season’s end, […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Iris DeMent Songs

August 14, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 8
Iris Luella DeMent was born in Arkansas in 1961, the youngest of 14 children in a Pentecostal family. Her cotton farming parents were both musical. Her father, Pat, was a fiddle player who performed at dances, […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Peter Rowan songs

August 7, 2025 Tim Martin 3
Having recently reviewed Peter Rowan’s latest album “Tales of the Free Mexican Air Force“, which is, at least partly, a musing on some of his career high points, I found that I didn’t know that calling […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Counting Crows Songs

July 31, 2025 Peter Thompson 7
Counting Crows came into being in 1991 in the San Francisco Bay Area. In 1993, the band’s debut album, “August and Everything After“, off the back of the breakthrough single ‘Mr. Jones’, the album sold in […]
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Essentials: The Top Ten Songs That Name-Drop Other Artists

July 17, 2025 Andy Short 35
It has long been a tradition in music for artists to cover their favourite songs. Some take the original to the next level, while others are straight copies; some are plain weird, and finally, there are […]

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Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967

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The Waterboys live at OVO Hydro, Glasgow - 29th August 2026

Live review: The Waterboys, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 29th August 2026

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Album Reviews

Keyside “Keyside”

September 4, 2026 0
A catchy, guitar-led debut where jangly hooks and catchy choruses carry stories of lives lived close to the edge. There is something immediately familiar about Keyside, the debut album from Liverpool four-piece Keyside. Jangly guitars and […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967

September 4, 2026 0
Growing up, I loved to watch the television show The Monkees, though looking back, I figure I wasn’t watching the episodes as they first aired, but re-runs. There were only two series of the show, though […]
The Waterboys live at OVO Hydro, Glasgow - 29th August 2026
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Live review: The Waterboys, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 29th August 2026

September 4, 2026 0
Prior to this homecoming gig, much had been made about the release of Atlantic Rain: The Lost Fisherman’s Blues Recordings, the latest offering on Fantasy Records; a collection of lost material from the 86-88 sessions. Tonight, […]

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  • Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967
  • Live review: The Waterboys, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 29th August 2026
  • Brothers Osborne will release fifth album “Watertown” in October
  • Our new supporters playlist is out tomorrow – win tickets to see Ranagri
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring My Girl The River and Hollow Hand
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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 1
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 […]

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Video: Anna May “Elegy”

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Here’s the latest video from alternative-folk singer-songwriter Anna May.  ‘Elegy’ is a deeply personal song that captures May’s feelings of grief and loss in an intimate, reflective performance.  With just her sweetly melodic voice and acoustic […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: k.d. lang “Big Boned Gal”

March 12, 2021 0
This week at Americana-UK Towers we have been in full celebration mode in respect of International Women’s Day. The slight fly in the ointment is that in the twenty-first century we still need to have such […]
Album Reviews

Nick Ellis “Daylight Ghosts” (Mellowtone Records, 2017)

March 23, 2017 0
Throughout this record Ellis’ guitar playing is excellent and the sound is clear and resonant (it was recorded in Liverpool St George’s Hall Crown Court Room) and it’s clear the further that Ellis gets from standard […]

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