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Interview: John Milward talks about his new book ‘Americanaland – Where Country & Western met Rock ’n’ Roll’

August 2, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 3

Americana has existed all along. For some of the most respected US newspaper titles to the specialist music press over forty years John Milward has written about all the musical strands that make up what we […]

Interview: James McMurtry discusses new album The Horses and The Hounds

July 29, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 1

How being ‘Kings of Middle of Nowhere’ helped inspire his latest album. When the time finally comes that we can look back on the pandemic, musical historians may well note that it proved fertile terrain for […]

Interview: Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin on LA’s native sons, WAR, and how to last forty-years as a band

July 27, 2021 Tim Newby 0

How a stop-gap album became a statement on Los Lobos’ musical DNA thanks to COVID. For nearly fifty years Los Lobos have been one of the great curators and stewards of American music, digging deep into […]

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

July 20, 2021 Tim Newby 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 […]

Interview: Jack O’Hara on how Eggs Over Easy accidentally helped punk to develop

July 15, 2021 Martin Johnson 2

How a borrowed PA, off-brand guitars and a real piano created a new old sound. Normally, Americana UK interviews artists who are promoting an album, either of new material or a career retrospective, and in pre-COVID […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Tim Easton - fIREHORSE
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Waylon & Willie - Self-titled
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Ry Cooder - Paradise and Lunch
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RE: The Paper Kites
Glad you enjoyed it Phil, they're a great band :)
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The Paper Kites
I have this site to thank for switching on to The Paper...
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Toots & the Maytals - In the DarK
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Drive-By Truckers - Gangstabilly
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Miles recorded a version of Crosby’s “Guinnevere”. &n...
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Megan Mornoney's third full length album Cloud Nine and...
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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 […]

News

The Sheepdogs change colours across the UK – June

April 30, 2018 0

Down boy! Quadruple Juno Award-winning Canadian quintet The Sheepdogs were described by Uncut as sounding like “Badfinger picking up The Flying Burrito Brothers’ bar tab” and they have today announced a string of UK shows throughout June and July, including […]

Videos

Video: Mandolin Orange “The Wolves”

January 23, 2019 0

The excellent Mandolin Orange have a new album, Tides Of A Teardrop, out on February 1st and this is the latest single from it, a beautiful song of joy and hope.

Interviews

Interview: Simone Felice

April 20, 2018 0

A long time has passed since we witnessed a shirtless, sweating Felice clambering over a rickety drum kit hollering “Yankees In The House” at The Basement in Nashville after an incendiary Felice Brothers show that was […]