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  • [ July 31, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power” Tracks
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Support music now, or lose it forever

January 29, 2021 Tim Martin 1
It’s felt over the course of the last year, and particularly at the start of 2021 that music is under threat as never before. With tiers and lockdowns stretching on for an unknowable time most businesses […]
Features

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Tim Newby

January 28, 2021 Clint West 5
This week we bring you our penultimate set of suggestions for the top 10 americana albums ever. Our second US based writer, Tim Newby, has served up a tantalising cocktail of proven ingredients complemented by a […]
Features

What is Americana? – Lady Neade and Carmen Phelan

January 28, 2021 Paul Kerr 0
We’re still digging into this joint quest with Country In The UK to pose the question to a few UK acts in the week that the Americana Music Association UK hosts its annual festival and awards […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Songs: Ohia “Magnolia Electric Co.”

January 27, 2021 Diccon Johnston 1
‘Magnolia Electric Co.’ is the place to enter the world of Jason Molina. It draws together the essential elements of his music to the point that is most accessible, combining alt-country, low-fi and indie-rock seamlessly. In […]
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A tribute to my beautiful lost mum, Pat Whitfield

January 27, 2021 Mark Whitfield 15
A week last Thursday the phone went at 7.45 in the morning, a call which I’ll never forget. My dad told me that in the middle of the night, my mum had completely out of the […]

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Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”

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Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September

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Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

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There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday

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Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981

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Tracks

Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”

July 31, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from case/lang/veirs who have this week shared their cover of Patti Smith’s track People Have The Power which […]
News

Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September

July 31, 2026 0
London-based singer-songwriter Jack Browning will release his sophomore album, Painted Skies, on September 16th via Too Fine Records. The twelve-song collection follows Browning’s signing to the Nashville label earlier this year and arrives after two years […]
Features

Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

July 31, 2026 0
The next Americana Story comes from one of our own. Rick Bayles escaped the UK to live in the Dordogne region of France, and from there he reports back through his monthly Vox Continental column, sharing […]

  • Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”
  • Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September
  • Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”
  • There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday
  • Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981
  • Jason McNiff “Ten Blue Songs”
  • Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 3rd-5th July 2026
  • Vox Continental: July 2026
  • The latest Americana UK podcast now available featuring Haylie Davis and Leeroy Stagger
  • Twilark “Tired To Sleep” – to sleep , perchance to forget
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  • Andrew Frolish: Indeed! There is great pleasure in remembering and writing about such a fantastic weekend! Always excellent and I love trying…
  • David Chalfen: You must have spent as long writing this massive review as you did at the festival! Super piece and captures…
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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
Interviews

Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 178 “Plus ca change”

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Since hanging up my mortarboard and gown (I never actually had either of these, but you get my drift), I’ve been doing lots of things, as these pages will attest. One of those things is taking […]
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Rob Jones & The Restless Dream “January Man” – Laurel Canyon by way of Manchester

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Rob Jones & The Restless Dream relive a lonely New Year’s Eve in their new single ‘January Man’. This is one of three singles being in the early months of 2024. A former school teacher and […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Lambchop “Your Fucking Sunny Day”

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This week we have been musing on two things. Firstly we are mourning the passing of our British summer. It lasted two whole days so I suppose we shouldn’t complain. Secondly we have been wondering what […]

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