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Shelby Means “Shelby Means”

May 22, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Excellent debut from award-winning bass-playing singer-songwriter. Shelby Means is one of the great female double bass players in bluegrass music along with the likes of Missy Raines, Vickie Vaughn and Katie Blomarz.  She has been a […]
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Sterling Drake “The Shape I’m In”

May 21, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 0
Excellent debut album from a young, roving troubadour with one foot in the country and one in the town. Sterling Drake is certainly an interesting character. He’s yet to turn 30 years old, but he has […]
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Charles Ellsworth “Cosmic Cannon Fodder”

May 21, 2025 Jonny Brick 0
Astute politically charged songwriting with rock’n’roll arrangements. Now based in Brooklyn via Arizona and Utah, Charles Ellsworth produces this fifth album with Blake Tallent, the guitar player for Sarah Shook & The Disarmers. Across 11 engaging […]
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Mark Morton “Without the Pain”

May 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Mark Morton leans heavily into the southern rock lane. For nearly a quarter century, Mark Morton has been the guitarist and songwriter for the five-time Grammy nominated, platinum-selling heavy metal band Lamb of God. There is […]
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Suzanne Vega “Flying With Angels”

May 20, 2025 Tim Martin 0
The wait was worth it for an almost faultless set of songs for our time. It’s 11 years since Suzanne Vega last produced an album of all new material. Having always been a particularly thoughtful songwriter […]

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Friends Of Jesse Malin “I Would Do It For You, Vol. 1”

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A second tribute album to the songs of the great Jesse Malin. There can’t be many Americana music fans who weren’t deeply moved by the incredibly sad news back in 2023 that Jesse Malin, one of […]
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Paperback Riders: Chris Hillman “Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother, and Beyond”

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Some musicians write memoirs to settle scores. Others write them to inflate their legend. Chris Hillman, who has spent most of his career standing slightly to one side of the spotlight, seems to have gone for […]
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Classic Clips: The Lone Bellow “Green Eyes and a Heart of Gold” – Live at Paradise Rock Club, Boston, Massachusetts, 2013

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Zach Williams, Kanene Donehey Pipkin and Brian Elmquist, collectively The Lone Bellow, came into being when Georgia natives, long-time friends Zach Williams and Brian Elmquist, got together in Brooklyn; Williams having moved to New York City […]

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Interview: Wesley Stace “I’m never satisfied with my artistic output”

October 13, 2026 0
Since his birth in Sussex in 1965, Wesley Stace has become a man of all colours, releasing 21 albums (17 under the nom de auteur-interprète John Wesley Harding), writing four books, organising the Cabinet of Wonders […]
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]

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Juanita Stein “Carry Me” – letting things go

November 7, 2024 0
The Howling Bells fronts-woman returns at last with her fourth solo album ‘The Weightless Hour‘ from which today’s  song is taken.  The new single was a lockdown written song, with quite the story behind it as […]
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Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring The Sheepdogs in conversation

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This week sees Keith step into Spring with The Sheepdogs, or at least two of them in the shape of Ewan and Ryan, with a lovely conversation about the new album, touring, and the joys of […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Bob Dylan “It’s A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall”

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This week the great and the good, the mediocre and the medium and the poor and the poorest of the residents of Americana-UK Towers (actually they were all great and good but we like to be […]

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