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Interview: Cat Clyde on how blues, jazz and country move her

October 17, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Singing as a child grounded her and Billie Holiday, Patsy Cline, and Bobbie Gentry inspired her. The term singer-songwriter is used with abandon within the americana and folk genres but there are only a few artists […]

Interview: Thea Gilmore on how a few beats helped release the real Thea Gilmore

October 10, 2023 Martin Johnson 8

Afterlight represented the start of a regeneration. Thea Gilmore is 20 albums and 25 years into her career which on the face of it is not the most obvious point to release her eponymous album, particularly […]

Interview: Charley Crockett on playing to the ghosts of The Ryman

October 3, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

The debt owed to James “Slim” Hand and the juke joints and honky tonks of Texas. He may have been playing music since he was seventeen years old, but it has taken until he is nearly […]

Interview: Cruz Contreras on cosmic country and Idaho

September 26, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Mixing lo-fi with classic sounds and a Steinway piano to create a unique sound. After 25 years playing music, latterly with his band the Black Lillies, Cruz Contreras has finally got around to releasing his first […]

Interview: Tommy Prine on going this far South with friends

September 21, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Songs that document the journey to being a man. Acclaimed singer-songwriter Ruston Kelly helped to persuade his friend, Tommy Prine, that he should pursue a life in music. Subsequently, Kelly, a wise man, indeed, co-produced ‘This […]

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Interviews

Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

February 23, 2026 0

Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]

Interviews

Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

February 18, 2026 0

The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It is not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

Features

“What Is This Americana Thing Anyway…?” – Martin Johnson

January 23, 2020 0

Here we are again folks with another eagerly anticipated contribution to our semi-regular “What Is This…?” feature. This time around Martin Johnson reveals his (what we can only surmise are) hippy roots in the North East […]

Album Reviews

Cua “In Flight Off The Islands” (Independent, 2019)

January 9, 2020 0

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 […]

News

Amythyst Kiah set for UK summer dates

June 13, 2019 0

A name that’s likely to be relatively new to readers of Americana UK is Amythyst Kiah, who has recently collaborated as part of a feted supergroup of four banjo players under the moniker, Our Native Daughters.