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Songs for the apocalypse: Tim Rogers & the Twin Set “I Left My Heart All Over the Place”

May 22, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
‘What Rhymes with Cars and Girls’ was the first solo album by You Am I frontman Tim Rogers, and the only release featuring the backing band The Twin Set. I grew to love the album with […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Randy Newman “Short People”

May 17, 2019 Paul Villers 0
There’s a TV in every room here at Americana-UK Towers (all fifty or so). None of them are connected, of course, but we need to be able to sell ourselves to visiting dignitaries to The People’s […]
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What Is This Americana Thing Anyway…?

May 16, 2019 Paul Villers 1
Welcome back to our occasional series in which we ask the Americana UK staff writers and contributors to give us a handle on the what, whys and wherefores that got them into the genre and why […]
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Songs for the apocalypse: Jason McNiff “I Remember You”

May 8, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Way back when I first started running AUK back in the early 2000s, promos of CDs started to trickle through the letterbox – some were great, others were let’s say over-confident, but occasionally something would hit […]
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Americana A-Z – Lindi Ortega

May 2, 2019 Andrew Frolish 6
The Americana A-Z is sometimes a means to celebrate a legend of the genre or it is often a way of reminding readers of a forgotten gem. This week, for the letter ‘O’, we’re shining the […]

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Video Premiere: Paper Wings “Mountains on the Moon”

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Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

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I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped the […]
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Interview: Hal Cannon on cowboy poetry, songs and folklore

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For Hal Cannon, life should be very simple – love the place you live, love the ones you know, if you’re needy, why not give, then see if you’re still low. Words to live by, extracted […]

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Bob Dylan is, of course, not the only artist who admires Frank Sinatra – Willie Nelson recorded the Grammy award winning ‘My Way‘ in 2018 and is following it up in 2021 with another album cut […]
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Two more stoney evenings? Sadly, there comes a time in this former young man’s life when any interest in drugs might turn more to the side effects of blood pressure medication or statins. So, with this […]

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