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[ July 27, 2026 ] Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award News
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Satin Nickel

March 26, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s another exclusive house-gig from Americana UK. We’re bringing these to you to help keep the nation smiling! This is a great opportunity for us to see some fabulous songs performed in new ways. It’s also […]

AmericanA to Z – Doug Sahm

March 26, 2020 Paul Kerr 3

Doug Sahm, AKA Sir Douglas, AKA Doug Saldana, AKA Wayne Douglas, a man of many names and one of the prime movers in concocting what we nowadays call Americana. The embodiment of Texas music, a child […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Ian Roland & The Subtown Set

March 25, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

We continue our mission, dear reader, to delight and entrance you with exclusive performances from great artists. Gigs and festivals have been cancelled all around us, stealing away those precious opportunities to share musical and social […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Eef Barzelay “The Ballad of Bitter Honey”

March 25, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

It feels either appropriate or misplaced to run a feature about the “apocalypse” when everything feels a bit end of the world-ish right now, but anyway, in for a penny… Eef Barzelay is the voice and […]

Forgotten Artists – Barefoot Jerry

March 25, 2020 Clint West 1

Founded in Nashville in 1971, Barefoot Jerry recorded six albums before calling it a day in 1977. None of them achieved great commercial success, but together they represent a body of work rivalled by few of […]

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 0

The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]

Cover art for Tucker Zimmerman album "Dream Me A Dream"

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

July 27, 2026 0

Posthumous studio album from literate Californian singer-songwriter turns dreams into songs, providing a fitting epitaph for one of life’s truly great maverick artists. The sub-zero temperatures that covered the bulk of the UK during the first […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

July 27, 2026 0

Several years ago, while still teaching, my morning routine took me to the local swimming pool at six thirty every morning, where I would pull on some awful budgie smugglers and swim a kilometre at a […]