Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • Fiction
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • 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
Our latest posts
  • [ September 7, 2026 ] Live Review: Found Festival, Claydon Hall, Bucks – 29th-31st August 2026 Live Reviews
  • [ September 7, 2026 ] Jake Bugg returns with new album and UK & Ireland tour dates News
  • [ September 7, 2026 ] A. Lee Edwards “Interpreting Heart Sounds, Vol. 2” Album Reviews
  • [ September 7, 2026 ] Sounds from beyond the Shed 251 “Life….” Columns
  • [ September 7, 2026 ] Icarus Phoenix “The Oligarchy” – prepare for a shock Tracks
HomeFeatures

Features

Features

Two Men in a Mazda: Perspectives on Wesley Stace’s 2024 Tour of the UK – Part 2

November 12, 2024 Darren Lumbroso 4
In May 2024, I spent two and half weeks with one of my favourite singer song writers, Wesley Stace (aka John Wesley Harding), on his first UK tour for some time. These two articles provide some […]
artwork for Michael Martin Murphey's "Geronimo's Cadillac
Features

For The Sake Of The Song: Michael Martin Murphey “Geronimo’s Cadillac”

November 11, 2024 Graeme Tait 4
For those people in the know, any suggestion that Michael Martin Murphey would make a perfect candidate for our ‘More People Really Should Know About’ feature would be seen as nothing short of insulting and ignorant. […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: JD Souther “Doolin – Dalton” – The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1973

November 8, 2024 Graeme Tait 2
It is one of life’s strange conundrums in that it is only after we lose something, or more pertinently someone, that we realise their worth and impact on our own personal journey on this mortal coil. […]
Columns

AUK Back Pages No. 9

November 7, 2024 Paul Kerr 4
The middle third of 2007 is in our sights on this latest peek into Americana UK’s chequered history. There’s the discs, sent out monthly to our paid-up supporters (bless you all) and a brief dip into […]
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it: Rodney Crowell

November 6, 2024 FredArnold 3
It’s easy to overlook what a talent Rodney Crowell is (and a bona fide pioneer of Americana music). He is an extremely intuitive and empathetic songwriter, an accomplished guitarist and has a pleasing and recognisable voice. […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 109 110 111 … 466 »

Support Americana UK!

Please help us support our running costs by making a one off donation – here.

our latest posts

Stornoway live at the Found Festival, Claydon Hall, Bucks -29th to 31st August 2026

Live Review: Found Festival, Claydon Hall, Bucks – 29th-31st August 2026

Live Reviews
September 7, 2026 1
Jake Bugg

Jake Bugg returns with new album and UK & Ireland tour dates

News
September 7, 2026 0

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

Album Reviews
September 7, 2026 0

Sounds from beyond the Shed 251 “Life….”

Columns
September 7, 2026 0

Icarus Phoenix “The Oligarchy” – prepare for a shock

Tracks
September 7, 2026 0
Stornoway live at the Found Festival, Claydon Hall, Bucks -29th to 31st August 2026
Live Reviews

Live Review: Found Festival, Claydon Hall, Bucks – 29th-31st August 2026

September 7, 2026 1
Found festival reminded me of the very first End Of The Road back in 2006: compact, homely, community-orientated and skilfully curated. The panoramic melodies, wide pastoral instrumentation and whimsical lyricism of local-ish heroes Stornoway instantly induced […]
Jake Bugg
News

Jake Bugg returns with new album and UK & Ireland tour dates

September 7, 2026 0
Jake Bugg is back with his seventh album, Alamo, on 13th November 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Produced by the multi-Grammy-winning duo of longtime friend and producer Jimmy Hogarth (Anohni, Amy Winehouse, Paolo Nutini) and Steve McKewan […]
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 […]

  • Live Review: Found Festival, Claydon Hall, Bucks – 29th-31st August 2026
  • Jake Bugg returns with new album and UK & Ireland tour dates
  • A. Lee Edwards “Interpreting Heart Sounds, Vol. 2”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 251 “Life….”
  • Icarus Phoenix “The Oligarchy” – prepare for a shock
  • Video Premiere: Grey DeLisle “There’s The Door”
  • Something for the weekend: Great Lakes “Why Did My Love Go Away?”
  • Keyside “Keyside”
  • 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
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen 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 Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • keith hargreaves: I must definitely attend next year
  • FredArnold: I'm happy to be corrected. The narrative now reflects that. Thank you
  • Katja: Here’s Laura Veirs’ instagram post from two+ years ago when she and k.d. lang recorded their vocals in Portland: https://www.instagram.com/p/CsetzWGyeET/?stkn=ZXZ4YmVubWlkdnk4

Latest interviews

Interviews

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 […]
Interviews

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. […]
Interviews

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 […]

You may have missed…

Tracks

Kate Ellis “Scars” – have you considered couples therapy?

January 14, 2022 0
Kate Ellis’ new single highlights its Americana credential by using not one but two AMA-UK instrumentalist award winners – Chris Hillman on electric guitar and Thomas Collison on keyboards.  The song is taken from Kate Ellis’ […]
Bill Callaghan Resuscitate album art
Album Reviews

Bill Callahan “Resuscitate”

July 29, 2024 0
Extraordinary live document that takes the listener into the room. Magisterial! The date is March 22nd, 2022. Bill Callahan is on the stage at Chicago’s Thalia Hall, flanked by Matt Kinsey on guitar, Dustin Laurenzi on […]
Album Reviews

Our Man in The Field “In the Company of Strangers” (Rocksnob, 2020)

October 1, 2020 0
Our Man in the Field, otherwise singer-songwriter Alexander Ellis, reports back from the London small gig scene (in the old world at least) with a set of songs created and evolved by being performed live “wherever […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool