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Interview: Chuck Prophet on “Wake The Dead”, ¿Qiensave? and Cumbia

January 21, 2025 Martin Johnson 4
Being excited by music that makes you feel good and want to sway your body. It’s been four years since Chuck Prophet released a new album, and in that time he has had to deal with […]
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Interview: James Mastro on Richard Lloyd, Ian Hunter, Richard Barone, to name a few

January 16, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
If James Mastro has health and happiness, he’s a rich man. His Facebook blurb states “I write songs and sing them if I have to. Guitarist, producer, and fake a host of other instruments. A sordid […]
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Interview: Amy Speace on her view of “The American Dream”

January 14, 2025 Martin Johnson 4
You can take the girl out of New York, but not New York out of the girl. Amy Speace is a favourite of Americana UK and has just released her fourth record in five years, “The […]
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Interview: Nick Gusman on “Lifting Heavy Things” with The Coyotes

January 8, 2025 Martin Johnson 0
Keeping ‘90s alt-country alive while bringing new music to new audiences. If Nick Gusman and The Coyotes are an indicator then grassroots americana is still alive and well in St Louis, Missouri. The band who earned […]
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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids on “Christmas in A Minor Key”

December 19, 2024 Dean Nardi 0
When it really comes down to these two or three weeks, you want the Nat King Cole of it all. Christmas carolling is a tradition where groups of people bundle up and go door to door […]

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Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967

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Live review: The Waterboys, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 29th August 2026

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Something for the weekend: Great Lakes “Why Did My Love Go Away?”

September 4, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a track from the new album by Great Lakes, Fear of the Fear, a band we have been big fans of […]
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Keyside “Keyside”

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A catchy, guitar-led debut where jangly hooks and catchy choruses carry stories of lives lived close to the edge. There is something immediately familiar about Keyside, the debut album from Liverpool four-piece Keyside. Jangly guitars and […]
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Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967

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Growing up, I loved to watch the television show The Monkees, though looking back, I figure I wasn’t watching the episodes as they first aired, but re-runs. There were only two series of the show, though […]

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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 1
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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The press release accompanying Cua’s (pronounced CooAhh) latest album quotes AUK’s Jeremy Searle discussing their last release. He said then: “this Irish trio stands right at the forefront of contemporary cutting-edge folk”. And that still stands […]

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