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Interview: Aoife O’Donovan explains why she is far from apathetic about music

February 15, 2022 Martin Johnson 2

How the pandemic and Joe Henry brought musical space and enabled a weird type of collaboration. Aoife O’Donovan is a serial collaborator who also enjoys a solo career within the folk rock and americana genres, but […]

Interview: Dean Owens and Joey Burns on the recording of “Sinner’s Shrine” – The Crystal Frontier meets the Water of Leith

February 11, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

AUK’s 2021 winner of Best UK Act, Scotland’s Dean Owens, and Calexico’s Joey Burns talk of how they bonded in a sun blasted Tucson, cemented their friendship in a wintry Edinburgh, and went on to record […]

Interview: Seafarer Matthew Herd on songwriting and odd-jobbing on his own recordings

February 8, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

John Martyn’s unique folk-jazz blend influences new 21st Century music. The Seafarers play a jazz folk hybrid that is the creation of Matthew Herd and while they have been around for nearly ten years, they are […]

Interview: Matt North on how drumming and screenwriting made him a songwriter

February 2, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

Get the best, how Matt North got Wilco’s producer, Lucinda Williams’ guitarist, Emmylou Harris’s bassist, and Chris Stapleton’s keyboardist to work with him. There aren’t many singer-songwriters who get to middle-age before starting their solo recording […]

Interview: Talking Elephant Record’s Malcolm Holmes on his love of folk and ‘70s rock

January 25, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

From Fairport’s Ashley Hutchins and Iain Matthews to echoes of the ‘60s Canterbury Scene. Regular readers of Americana UK interviews will be aware that from time to time we speak to non-musicians who none the less […]

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Rae Spoon “Assigned Country Singer At Birth”

April 23, 2026 0

Non-binary singer returns to their country roots with intimations of mortality. After a twenty-year spell away from the genre, Canadian Rae Spoon returns to their formative years with Assigned Country Singer At Birth, their thirteenth album. […]

Red Rooster crows no more

April 23, 2026 0

We hate to be the bearers of more bad news with everything else going on in the world at the moment but another UK festival has fallen by the wayside. This time it’s Red Rooster which […]

Deer Tick “Everything Born” – goes through changes

April 23, 2026 0

On 5th June, Providence’s Deer Tick will release their ninth studio album, Coin-O-Matic, via ATO. In advance of that comes the customary singles, of which Everything Born is the latest, and it touches on the LP’s underlying […]

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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0

Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0

Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0

Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]

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Songs for the apocalypse: Deadstring Brothers “Blindfolded”

February 26, 2020 2

Omg this band – does anyone remember them? Hailing from Detroit, Michigan and fronted by guitarist/vocalist Kurt Marschke, the worst thing you could say about Deadstring Brothers were that they were sometimes a bit derivative of […]

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Avi Buffalo is back and in UK next week

May 9, 2018 0

‘What’s In It For [Me]?’ was the question most 6Music listeners asked themselves over the summer of 2010 (remember those heady days?) and you might find the answer out to the question finally as, like Lazarus, […]

Videos

Video: Kacy & Clayton “High Holiday”

August 15, 2019 0

From their latest album “Carrying On“, produced by Jeff Tweedy and out on October 4th, comes this slightly eerie, cinematic song from the Canadian folk duo. A wonderful video too.