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A Night to Remember: My Morning Jacket – The Roundhouse, London, 7th November 2011

November 18, 2021 Rich Orpin 0

By some strange coincidence, it’s ten years ago to the day (as I write this) that what turned out to be my ‘Night to Remember’ took place. My Morning Jacket had long been a band I’d […]

Classic Americana Albums: John Moreland “Big Bad Luv”

November 17, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

“It’s no use, God bless these blues, let’s get wrecked and bruised and battered,” is just one of John Moreland’s more ‘cheerful’ reflections on his ‘Big Bad Luv’ album about how he has finally found an […]

Small Venue Heroes: Odette Michell

November 16, 2021 Emily Dongray 1

Features Editor Clint West writes: Last week we intoduced ‘The Other Side of Me’ as the first of two new features that would alternate each week on Tuesdays. Today we present the second of those new features […]

Whatever Happened to…The Balham Alligators

November 15, 2021 Rick Bayles 11

Whenever British-made Americana music is discussed you can, pretty much, assume that, sooner or later, the name Geraint Watkins will come up. Born in the village of Abertridwr, South Wales in 1951 the multi-instrumentalist would go […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Lucinda Williams “Right In Time”

November 15, 2021 Peter Tomkins 0

Let’s counterbalance pain with pleasure. Americana UK’s Chain Gang seems to have disappeared down a rabbit hole of drug addiction and pain, so I have attempted to pull it right out and place it back on […]

The Jayhawks live at the Electric Ballroom, Camden - 16th September 2026

Live Review: The Jayhawks, Electric Ballroom, Camden – 16th September 2026

September 28, 2026 0

About a decade ago, I formulated a new genre based on a particular guitar sound that would for several years be heard on Radio 2 after midnight on Friday and Saturday nights. Bob Harris Country is […]

Bluegrass Briefs: Sociograss, Triple Fiddle, The Runaway Strings, Lindsay Lou

September 28, 2026 0

This time, Bluegrass Briefs features music from around the world and all across the Bluegrass tradition, from the rough and rowdy Scottish ways of Sociograss to the almost classical music of Triple Fiddle from Minnesota and […]

artwork for Jack Browning album "Painted Skies"

Jack Browning “Painted Skies”

September 28, 2026 0

London-born singer-songwriter draws on wide Western canvas to create solid sophomore release. Jack Browning’s debut album, Red Eye Radio (2023), may have flown under the AUK radar, but Keith Hargreaves recently clocked the imminent release of […]