Features – Page 296 – Americana UK

Our latest posts

[ May 19, 2026 ] Old Crow Medicine Show will release latest record Union Made in early June News
[ May 19, 2026 ] Dirt Road Souls “(The Life and Times of) Johnny Moonshine” Album Reviews
[ May 19, 2026 ] More People Really Should Know About: Todd Day Wait Features
[ May 19, 2026 ] Sounds from beyond the Shed 231 “Who Knows Where The Time Goes?” Columns
[ May 19, 2026 ] Lisa Bouchelle “Make This World Stand Still” – featuring Amanda Shires Tracks

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Forbert songs

May 6, 2021 Jim Finnie 10

Despite intense pressure from my Americana UK writing colleagues (which I have to say at times bordered on psychological torture and which has caused me to consider legal remedies), I am not going to cover the […]

The Unsung Heroes of Americana – Fender Telecaster

May 6, 2021 Tim Martin 4

Rick Bayles, Editor of the Unsung Heroes series writes: “The Fender brand is 75 years old this year (founded in Fullerton, California in 1946). For this week’s look at Unsung Heroes of Americana, Tim Martin takes a […]

Classic Americana Albums: Hayes Carll “Trouble In Mind”

May 5, 2021 Jim Finnie 3

When his third album, ‘Trouble In Mind’ was released in 2008, Hayes Carll was an up and coming yet still relatively unknown alt-country singer-songwriter, who had built up a small, but dedicated, group of fans through […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Scotty Melton’s “Me and the Devil”

May 4, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0

Linking to Justin Townes Earle’s ‘Harlem River Blues’ is Earle’s collaborator, friend, and roommate, singer-songwriter Scotty Melton and his song ‘Me and the Devil.’ The two met in the ’90s in the men’s toilets at the […]

Whatever Happened to… The Desert Rose Band

May 4, 2021 Rick Bayles 17

If committing Country Rock was ever to be designated a crime, Chris Hillman would go down in history as one of the great serial offenders. Having been an original member of the Byrds he went on […]