Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ March 13, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Angel’s Eye” Tracks
  • [ March 13, 2026 ] Book of Churches “Book of Churches” Album Reviews
  • [ March 13, 2026 ] Classic Clips: I’m With Her and Iron & Wine “Overland” – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA – 24th July 2025 Classic Clips
  • [ March 13, 2026 ] Live Review: Eagles, Sphere, Las Vegas – 27th February 2026 Live Reviews
  • [ March 13, 2026 ] Lolly Lee “Everything Spins” Album Reviews
HomeFeaturesTop 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists

Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists

Americana UK writers choose their top ten americana artists of all time

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Guy Lincoln

October 26, 2023 Guy Lincoln 4
Honestly I get it, I really do. I love a list as much as anybody and probably more than most. I still scour old NME, Select, Skyscraper, Shindig and Paste magazines to read annual best of […]
Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Ljubinko Zivkovic

October 19, 2023 Ljubinko Zivkovic 3
It has been said before (if not always), that creating a list of the top 10 artists ‘ever’ in any genre is almost an impossible task. There are always at least ten more other artists that […]
Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Pete Churchill

October 12, 2023 Peter Churchill 7
Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists. Ever? Impossible task. So, let us assume the writer cannot possibly have had access to every potential artist who might fit comfortably into that category and take it from there. […]
Features

The Top 10 Greatest Americana Artists: Andrew Frolish

October 5, 2023 Andrew Frolish 1
So, it’s my turn to agonise over the selection of the greatest ever artists in our little musical world of americana.  Of course, the first thing to consider is how on earth we define the genre […]
Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Jonathan Smith

September 28, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0
Aargh! The best? How do you even do that? Answer: don’t fret, just pick ten who spring to mind, even if that means leaving out Bob Dylan, The Band, Jackson Browne, Bruce Springsteen, Steve Earle, Jason […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 4 5 6 … 8 »

Donate to Americana UK

If you enjoy what you're reading and don't want to support us on a monthly basis, you can help us keep this site free from looking like one of those awful REACH sites by making a one off donation towards our running costs. We all do this in our spare time! THANK YOU.

Recent Forum Posts

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Sturgill Simpson - Cuttin’ Grass-Vol. 1 (The Butcher Sh...

    By Joe Nathan , 48 minutes ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    The Black Crowes - A Pound of Feathers

    By Joe Nathan , 18 hours ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Just got a copy of The Jayhawks Rainy Day Music special...

    By Andy Short , 22 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Mary Gauthier - Mercy Now

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Native Harrow - Old Kind of Magic (vinyl) Steve Earle...

    By Peter Thompson , 1 day ago

  • RE: Nothing is real (maybe)

    Who knows. We won’t really know until we get to the bot...

    By Martin Johnson , 1 day ago

  • RE: Versions!

    Not forgetting Elvis C.

    By Martin Johnson , 1 day ago

  • RE: Versions!

    Watt beats Adams hands down here. Must dig out an EP he...

    By Paul Kerr , 2 days ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Old Crow Medicine Show - Live at Third Man Records (vin...

    By Peter Thompson , 2 days ago

our latest posts

Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Angel’s Eye”

Tracks
March 13, 2026 0
artwork for Book of Churches album

Book of Churches “Book of Churches”

Album Reviews
March 13, 2026 0
I'm With Her

Classic Clips: I’m With Her and Iron & Wine “Overland” – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA – 24th July 2025

Classic Clips
March 13, 2026 0
Eagles at Sphere, Las Vegas, 27-02-2026

Live Review: Eagles, Sphere, Las Vegas – 27th February 2026

Live Reviews
March 13, 2026 0
artwork for Lolly Lee album "Everything Spins"

Lolly Lee “Everything Spins”

Album Reviews
March 13, 2026 0
Tracks

Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Angel’s Eye”

March 13, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with the fantastic opening track from the 2024 album Box for Buddy, Box for Star from American singer, songwriter and record producer […]
artwork for Book of Churches album
Album Reviews

Book of Churches “Book of Churches”

March 13, 2026 0
Gentle songs of quiet reflection for staying grounded in hurried times. Hot on the heels of last year’s critically acclaimed release, Divorce singer and guitarist Felix Mackenzie-Barrow returns with the eponymously titled debut album from his […]
I'm With Her
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: I’m With Her and Iron & Wine “Overland” – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA – 24th July 2025

March 13, 2026 0
2025 has been a busy year for folk supergroup I’m With Her.  The three principals – Aoife O’Donovan, Sarah Jarosz and Sara Watkins released their second album “Wild And Clear And Blue” on 9th May.  Its […]

  • Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Angel’s Eye”
  • Book of Churches “Book of Churches”
  • Classic Clips: I’m With Her and Iron & Wine “Overland” – Keswick Theatre, Glenside, PA – 24th July 2025
  • Live Review: Eagles, Sphere, Las Vegas – 27th February 2026
  • Lolly Lee “Everything Spins”
  • Viarosa’s Richard Neuberg emerges from a sixteen year hiatus with “The Vine”
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available this week featuring the brilliant Sam Beam of Iron and Wine
  • Bruce Springsteen “A Rainy Night In Soho” – those wet London nights
  • Video: Iron and Wine “Roses” – Laugh into each other’s empty mouth
  • The Top 10 Americana Songs Of All Time: Chas Lacey
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Chas Lacey: Thank you Jonathan, for your kind words and suggestions. The Slaid Cleaves track has a nice Jackson Browne vibe and…
  • Mark Whitfield: test
  • Jonathan Aird: Great list - The Grateful Dead taking on the mantle of The Byrds, the not talked about enough Slaid Cleaves…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 0
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

You may have missed…

Interviews

Interview: Joshua Radin, loneliness, longing, and working remotely

July 20, 2021 0
How COVID has influenced an album that speaks to everyone. Singer/ songwriter Joshua Radin has become known for his introspective lyrics over his nearly two-decade and eight studio album long career.  His latest album, ‘The Ghost […]
Interviews

Interview: Ida Mae’s Chris Turpin on “Thunder Above You”

January 23, 2024 0
English folk and American roots music with improvisation and tour support from a nanny. Ida Mae are husband and wife Chris Turpin and Stephanie Jean Ward who play an indie folk americana mix that they’ve worked […]
Tracks

Gillian Welch “There’s A First Time For Everything” – Listen

November 6, 2020 2
Today’s track is another bite at the delicious cherry that is ‘Boots No. 2: The Lost Songs, Vol. 3 ‘, the Acony Records release of demo and unreleased songs from Gillian Welch. Today’s song is a […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool