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AUK’s Paul Villers has a weekly look at the news with an accompanying Americana song

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Pick of the Political Pops: Warren Zevon “Lawyers, Guns and Money”

October 2, 2020 Paul Villers 0
This weeks televisual highlight at Americana-UK Towers came as tuned in to watch the American presidential debate. We say debate but it was more like a primary school spat between spoiled brats except worse. No one […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: George Strait “The Weight Of The Badge”

September 25, 2020 Paul Villers 0
This week at Americana-UK Towers we have been mostly practising at being Shroedinger’s Worker – a concept where we are simultaneously both working from home and working from the office. It seemed the only sensible thing […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Steve Earle “Amerika v6.0 (The Best We Can Do)”

September 18, 2020 Paul Villers 0
Recently at Americana UK Towers we set up the cine projector and had our weekly ‘film night’ where we come together as one and enjoy a movie. We had a high old time each with their […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Yo La Tengo “Autumn Sweater”

September 11, 2020 Paul Villers 0
Here at Americana-UK Towers we have unaccountably found ourselves in a new season and are ready to embrace all that this change in the meteorological world has to throw at us. Thank heavens that the madness […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Robyn Hitchcock “Television”

September 4, 2020 Paul Villers 0
Here in Americana-UK Towers we have recently renewed our television licence. It cost us a grand sum of fifty-three quid since The Editor is too tight to let us have a colour TV and we make […]

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Sorcha Richardson set to release her third album in September

June 22, 2026 0
Dublin-born singer-songwriter Sorcha Richardson has returned with the announcement of her new album Draw The Outline, out 11th September via Faction Records. Alongside the album, Richardson has also shared the single Illinois Again. With just two […]
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For The Sake Of The Song: Rod MacDonald “American Jerusalem”

June 22, 2026 0
When I first started subscribing to Americana UK back in 2016, it was like having all my birthdays and Christmas come at once, as it supplied me with a daily diet of everything happening in the […]
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The Cousins Project “Child of the Hills”

June 22, 2026 0
Artisanal roots music from Vermont’s Green Mountains. Kristina Stykos is a songwriter, musician, recording engineer and producer who has been a torchbearer for the music of the Green Mountain State since the 1980s. Her Pepperbox Studio […]

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Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

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Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]
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Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0
In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]
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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

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Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]

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Interview: Sicard Hollow’s Alex King on finding their bluegrass heart

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Taking a lead from Tony Rice’s generation and trying to move bluegrass forward in the 21st Century. Sicard Hollow are the new kids on the block for jamband-influenced progressive bluegrass, so new that they are still […]
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James Houlahan Has “Memories of Outer Space”

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LA based singer-songwriter James Houlahan is gearing up for the release of his new album ‘The Wheel Still in Spin‘, which will be his fourth album.  ‘Memories of Outer Space‘ is the lead single from the […]
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Album Reviews

The Brothers Comatose “Golden Grass”

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Northern California band engages in an outburst of pleasurable doodling. The Brothers Comatose claim to have embraced a new genre. According to the brothers Alex and Ben Morrison, a fan started calling their sound golden grass, […]

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