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Glasgow Americana returns with its best line up yet

October 1, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Glasgow Americana has lined up ten gigs featuring overseas and home-based acts for this year’s five day long festival. The on-stage action for the 12th Glasgow Americana will take place at six city venues from Wednesday […]
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John Murry brings decay to a town near you

September 12, 2018 Paul Fitzgerald 0
John Murry’s UK tour still has a handful of dates left. Bringing songs from this year’s superb album ‘A Short History Of Decay’, as well as a brace of older material, Murry’s work is dark and […]
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Jesse Dayton comes in from the outside

August 28, 2018 Mark Underwood 0
Jesse Dayton has tour dates in the UK over the next fortnight. The Texan’s new record ‘The Outsider’ is more than suggestive of the fact he’s flown somewhat under the radar in terms of popularity in […]
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Robby Hecht & Caroline Spence hits the UK for tour next week

August 17, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
We leave you this weekend (or welcome the new week in if you’re reading this on Monday) dear readers with news of Robby Hecht & Caroline Spence who hit the UK for dates next week. The […]
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Mid-Sussex americana beer festival returns for second year

August 2, 2018 Mark Underwood 0
After its inaugural year in August 2017, the Mid-Sussex americana and ale festival returns next month to the Hassocks hotel. Last year the festival featured the likes of Danny and the Champs, Robert Vincent, Dean Owens […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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Sam Grassie “Burning Of Auchindoun” – flames take you, and be damned

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Katherine Priddy “These Frightening Machines”

March 25, 2026 0
Sophisticated Folk, intellectual pop, from Katherine Priddy. Katherine Priddy’s new album, her third, is a collection of strong songs that each, in their own ways, examine what it means to be a human – not just […]
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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 0
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck to release traditional collaboration in May 2026

March 25, 2026 0
5x Grammy-winning soprano Renée Fleming and 19x Grammy-winning banjo supremo Béla Fleck announced The Fiddle and the Drum, a collaborative album celebrating Appalachian bluegrass and folk music to be released on 29th May 2026 via Thirty […]

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  • Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff
  • Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck to release traditional collaboration in May 2026
  • The Sarandons “Long Way Home”
  • Sam Grassie “Burning Of Auchindoun” – flames take you, and be damned
  • Video Premiere: Brock Davis “Nowhere Near Ready”
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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 0
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Video Premiere: Julian Taylor “Dedication”

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What a pleasure it is for Americana UK to premiere the video for the latest single from good friend of the site, Julian Taylor.  It’s taken from the upcoming album, strongly hinted at by Julian here, […]
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Video: Hank Wangford, Richard Thompson & Aly Bain “S.A.V.E.D.”

September 21, 2018 0
A bit of fun from 1987 for this week’s retro slot with almost certainly the only appearance together of these three luminaries.  Featuring Aly Bain with a jacket, Richard Thompson without a hat and Hank Wangford […]
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Los Straitjackets “Somos Los Straitjackets”

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Instrumental surf and rock’n’roll tunes which could be much dirtier Having spent several  years working with Nick Lowe, Los Straitjackets, the Mexican wrestler masked instrumental combo have stepped out on their own for the first time  […]

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