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Interview: Fairport Convention’s Dave Pegg on the band’s first 55 years and the ukulele bass

May 17, 2022 Martin Johnson 3
He may be only the bass player but he has helped create the British folk rock genre. Fairport Convention may have defined British folk rock but their mix of traditional music with the sounds associated with […]
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Interview: Kris Wilkinson Hughes on The ARC Tour with Kate Ellis and Anna Howie

May 10, 2022 Martin Johnson 0
Born in Louisiana but semi-Anglicised by over twenty years in the UK, the epitome of Americana UK. If you were looking for a typical Americana UK artist then you would be hard pushed to find a […]
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Interview: David Ford and Annie Dressner on their spontaneous joint project

May 6, 2022 Paul Gibson 0
The importance of meticulous characterisation. David Ford and Annie Dressner have been working together as a duo for only a very short time, just a matter of weeks at this point, but the musical telepathy they […]
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Notes from abroad: Bluegrass and Americana is alive and kicking at the Suwanee Music Festival

May 4, 2022 Mike Fiorito 2
We’re always up for something new at AUK and when we were offered this intimate glimpse into what appears to be an idyllic bluegrass festival, held in the Suwanee Music Park in North Florida, we thought, […]
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Interview: Dutch americana artist and member of Matthews Southern Comfort Eric Devries

May 3, 2022 Martin Johnson 0
How the Beatles and punk rock lead to Guy Clark, Townes Van Zandt, and Steve Earle. Every now and again Americana UK takes a look at americana in one of our European neighbours to make sure […]

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Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”

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Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates

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Jawdropped, a four-piece from Los Angeles, have announced their debut album, Secret To Spare, due 18th September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback. The band has also released the first single, Split Lip, along with a video […]
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Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking

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We’ve been lucky enough here at Americana UK to have been aware of Anna Tivel and her astonishing songwriting pretty much from her emergence into the folk/singer-songwriter/americana combined genres. We haven’t been shy with our praise […]
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Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”

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When Dennis McNally published A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead in 2002, he had an almost impossible task. It needed to document a band whose history was already wrapped in layers […]

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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

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Track Premiere: Fairbanks & the Lonesome Light “Song to My Bartender” – Listen

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Here’s a nice new track we’ve got exclusively for you this morning. Erik Flores and Amelia Rose Logan’s songs as Fairbanks & the Lonesome Light have been described as “modern dime westerns” and this is as good an example […]
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Yonder Mountain String Band “Nowhere Next”

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What bluegrass through Yonder Mountain breaks. It was back in 1998 when Jeff Austin and Dave Johnston joined forces in Colorado under the stoner name The Bluegrassholes. That probably seemed funny at the time (actually, still […]
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David Picco “Still Doubt It” – Funked up Americana via Texas and Toronto

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Funked up americana via Texas and Toronto on David Picco’s new track ‘Still Doubt It’. Canadian songwriter Picco released his news album ‘Until Now’ on 30th May.  ‘Still Doubt It’ is the first single and features […]

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