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Can’t Live With It – Can’t Live Without It: Freedy Johnston

December 5, 2024 Paul Russell 0
If you grow up as a music fan and have aspirations to become a musician – life is treating you a little unfairly if the only place you can buy records back in the seventies was […]
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AUK Back Pages No. 10

December 4, 2024 Paul Kerr 0
We’re at the back end of 2007 this time around. So, alongside the four monthly issued CDs there’s an end of year bonus, a best of 2007. Before delving into them we have our usual dive […]
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More People Should Really Know About: Denitia

December 3, 2024 Dean Nardi 0
Filled to the brim with relentless positivity. Denitia (Odigie) thought about making a record that goes back to the music she heard at home, capturing the place within the songs. Growing up, she was engulfed by […]
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Essentials: The Top Ten Will Kimbrough Songs

November 28, 2024 Paul Russell 5
Will Kimbrough is the real deal. A masterful singer-songwriter who has been recording a wide range of music since his debut band The Bis-Quits recorded their 1993 album on John Prine’s Oh Boy label. That band […]
Continental Shift

Continental Shift: 3. France

November 28, 2024 Rick Bayles 2
Home territory for me and the enigma that is France. On paper, France should be a major territory for americana. Americana is often spoken about as being a continuation of the Troubadour tradition and France is […]

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Album Reviews

A. Lee Edwards “Interpreting Heart Sounds, Vol. 2”

September 7, 2026 0
A. Lee Edwards slows it all down and goes a layer deeper in his second interpretation of the sounds of his heart, with beautiful strings complementing the spacious production and bringing listeners to their knees through […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 251 “Life….”

September 7, 2026 0
Been a tough couple of weeks as we buried our father last week and adjusted to life without him (and crippling care costs!). My mother is handling things well, stating that she “lost him years ago,” […]
Tracks

Icarus Phoenix “The Oligarchy” – prepare for a shock

September 7, 2026 0
The latest song from Icarus Phoenix touches softly on the endless cycles of change – whether that be in the realm of the personal or on the larger canvas of political changes and upheavals.  When contrasting […]

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  • Icarus Phoenix “The Oligarchy” – prepare for a shock
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  • Something for the weekend: Great Lakes “Why Did My Love Go Away?”
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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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Classic Americana Albums: John Prine “In Spite of Ourselves”

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In spite of throat surgery – one of the all-time greatest collaborative albums. In April 2020, the americana community on both sides of the Atlantic was saddened by the news that at age 73, John Prine […]
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VanWyck “I Was Innocent” – Really, it wasn’t me…

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The enigmatic VanWyck returns with the first song from the upcoming album ‘The Epic Tale of the Stranded Man‘, which will be released on Excelsior Recordings on 22nd March 2022.  On ‘I was Innocent‘ we’re confronted […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 73

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Whose fault is it?.. oh yes …must be the teachers. There is a growing trend in education that is only increasing and that is the blame game. Parents are right to expect a solid education with […]

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