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Our top ten americana albums of 2021 – Part Two

December 21, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Americana UK reveals its album of the year for 2021. Following a few dormant years when trying to decide on an albums of the year list we ended up scratching (and sometimes gouging) each other’s eyes […]

Our top ten americana albums of 2021 – Part One

December 20, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Well it’s been a long year by anyone’s standards but as a form of group therapy, we decided for the first time in years to try and come up with a list of our favourite albums […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Rodney Crowell “Something Has To Change”

December 20, 2021 Tim Martin 0

Last week on the Chain Gang I was introduced by Sean Hannam to Matt Hill, and his album ‘Return of the Idle Drones’. This is available exclusively via Hill’s Bandcamp page. Like many of the artists […]

Classic Clips – Gregory Alan Isakov & Passenger “Sweet Baby James”

December 17, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Two of the finest vocalists and songwriters around today are Colorado-based Gregory Alan Isakov and the UK’s Michael Rosenberg, better known by his stage-name Passenger. Both possess gently intimate voices that draw us into their stories. […]

Killers and crowd-pleasing epics: Helen Jones’s Review of 2021

December 16, 2021 Helen Jones 2

Sadly, still no shows for me in 2021 (an autoimmune disorder means I’m operating with an abundance of caution), but hey, at least there has been a great raft of studio albums to keep me entertained. […]

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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

March 20, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from British slacker twang quartet Brown Horse, the third and final single from their upcoming album Total Dive […]

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

March 20, 2026 1

Danny George Wilson delivers a reflective and beautifully crafted set of songs exploring loss, memory, and the difficult business of moving on. Danny George Wilson follows up the Danny & The Champions of the World album, […]

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

March 20, 2026 0

Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum has announced his new album Birds of Paradise, “a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves,” which will come out on May 22 via Dear Life Records, and […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Videos

Video: Barry Gibb ft. Gillian Welch and David Rawlings “Butterfly”

December 14, 2020 0

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings are one of a number of artists who feature on Barry Gibb’s forthcoming country/roots album ‘Greenfields’, which is produced by Dave Cobb – you can hear them on this track ‘Butterfly’ […]

Album Reviews

Steve Wallis “Nothing Stays the Same Way For Long”

September 12, 2022 0

Subtly crafted gorgeousness abounds on Australian songwriter’s debut. Steve Wallis is an Australian singer songwriter who has resided in Paris for nearly a decade. This, his debut album, following the success of 2018 single ‘Melbourne Rain’, […]

Album Reviews

Alex Seel ”Circles EP” (Independent, 2017)

August 10, 2017 0

Native of the UK, Alex Seel has been steeped in folk music, and this is audible in the guitar playing on this ”Circles EP”, especially in the title track kicking off the EP. With gorgeously rich […]

Our top ten americana albums of 2021 – Part Two

Our top ten americana albums of 2021 – Part One

AUK’s Chain Gang: Rodney Crowell “Something Has To Change”

Classic Clips – Gregory Alan Isakov & Passenger “Sweet Baby James”

Killers and crowd-pleasing epics: Helen Jones’s Review of 2021

Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

Classic Clips: Brown Horse “Wipers”, Newport 2024

Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”