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Live Review: UK Americana Music Week 2023, Hackney, London – 24th – 27th January 2023

February 2, 2023 Peter Feldon 0
Kick Off Party, Night Tales, 24th February  This event got off to a cracking start with live music from previous winners of the Bob Harris Emerging artist award. The excellent Lauren Housley was up first with […]
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Live review: Dean Owens & The Sinners + Kirsten Adamson @Celtic Connections, Oran Mor, Glasgow, 26th January 2023

January 31, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
This sold out show at Oran Mor was essentially two album release shows for the price of one (the subject of a running gag throughout the night) as Dean Owens (winner of our UK Artist Of […]
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Live Review: Lucinda Williams + LA Edwards @ Celtic Connections, Glasgow Royal Concert Hall – 23rd January 2023

January 30, 2023 Cam Fraser 0
For the last 40 years, Lucinda Williams has shown herself to be one of the major figures in Americana. She has a string of well-respected albums that go back to the late 70s and she’s mentioned […]
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Live Review: Lucinda Williams and Buick 6 + L.A. Edwards, The Barbican, London – 21st January 2023

January 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
According to social media posts from those who have seen Lucinda Williams’ current shows, she and her band are on top form. Here at AUK we’ve been lucky enough to have had reporters at two of […]
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Live Review: The Hackles + Lizzie No @Celtic Connections, Drygate, Glasgow – 22nd January 2023

January 26, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
It’s testament to the pulling power of Celtic Connections, now in its 30th year, that a near-capacity crowd turned up to see The Hackles play their first-ever gig in Scotland even as elsewhere, the festival had […]

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Something for the weekend: Black Midi “Still”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year knees up featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and a whole load more americana, you can pick them […]
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Charley Crockett “Age of the Ram”

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Americana favourite delivers the final chapter of his adventurous Sagebrush Trilogy that concludes with the mythological and wide-ranging story of the ‘Outlaw’ Billy MacLane. Readers of Americana UK are likely to be very familiar with the […]
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Tift Merrit announces new album “Sugar”

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Listen to the first single to be taken from it below. Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt has announced Sugar, her first album in nearly a decade, due out June 26th via One Riot which is described as […]

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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

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In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]
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Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]

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The Decemberists, Hammersmith Odeon, London, 7th November 2018

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Under a backdrop dominated by a giant mad-eyed grinning skull The Decemberists returned to the UK, still a little jet-lagged despite landing four days earlier, but determined anyway, to do their very best. This tour has the […]
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Video: The Hanging Stars “(I’ve Seen) The Summer In Her Eyes”

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Here’s the new single from the very wonderful Hanging Stars, taken from their album ‘A New Kind Of Sky‘, out in February next year.  It has a proper cosmic american, classic Byrdsian feel to it and […]
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Something for the weekend: Margo Price “Long Live the King”

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And so we head into the last weekend outdoors and leave you, dear reader, with a new single from BLM-backing country singer Margo Price who once said about alienating fans, “You can’t argue with stupid”, although […]

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