Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ April 8, 2026 ] The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 3rd – Counting Crows “A Long December” (1996) Features
  • [ April 8, 2026 ] Great Lakes “Don’t Swim Too Close” Album Reviews
  • [ April 8, 2026 ] Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan to be celebrated in Ace compilation featuring a myriad of stars News
  • [ April 8, 2026 ] Nic Panken “Near Divine or Merely Rhyme” Album Reviews
  • [ April 8, 2026 ] Book Review: Geoffrey Himes “Willie Nelson, All the Albums” The Stories Behind The Music Book Reviews
HomeReviewsAlbum Reviews

Album Reviews

Artwork for Matthew Check ep "The November Session'
Album Reviews

Matthew Check “The November Album”

November 16, 2021 Jonathan Smith 0
Personal songs from the archive of folk/Americana artist. Matthew Check is a singer-songwriter based out of Brooklyn, New York. ‘The November Album’ originally dates from recordings made in 2013, but which are finally seeing the light […]
Album Reviews

Natalie Jane Hill “Solely”

November 16, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Natalie Jane Hill moves into a rarefied folk echelon, and more than justifies her place there. On her second album Natalie Jane Hill provides an eloquent statement of what “less is more” really means, bringing her […]
Art work for Mr Alec Bowman-Clarke, "A Place Like Home"
Album Reviews

Mr. Alec Bowman_Clarke “A Place Like Home”

November 16, 2021 Richard Phillips 0
Poetic musings for an age of isolation. A beginning, an end. The click and whirl of a tape machine starting to revolve signify the former whilst the powering down of the same machine signify the latter […]
Artwork for Frank Richard Rough Enough
Album Reviews

Frank Richard “Rough Enough”

November 15, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 2
Long overdue addition to top-grade Americana, but well worth the wait. When a US singer-songwriter with enough mileage on his clock to have been arrested at an anti-Vietnam demonstration and received his first guitar lesson from […]
Album Reviews

Various Artists “Highway Butterfly: The Songs Of Neal Casal”

November 15, 2021 Paul Kerr 0
A wonderful and lovingly compiled tribute to the late Neal Casal. Neal Casal’s death, by his own hand, in 2019, reverberated throughout the musical community which Americana UK inhabits. Never a household name, never lauded with […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 443 444 445 … 969 »

Recent Forum Posts

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Maeve O'Boyle - All My Sins

    By Peter Thompson , 22 hours ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Live - Throwing Copper

    By Peter Thompson , 22 hours ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Hootie & The Blowfish - Cracked Rear View (25th Ann...

    By Peter Thompson , 22 hours ago

  • RE

    Gretchen Peters: The Songs of Mickey Newbury:

    By FredArnold , 24 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Willie Nelson - Yesterday’s Wine

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Linda Martell - Color Me Country

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Grateful Dead - Dead Set

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Bo Diddley - Self-titled

    By Joe Nathan , 1 day ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Came across this guy John Rush . Know him Paul Kerr? ...

    By Keith Hargreaves , 2 days ago

our latest posts

Countng Crows in Charlotte, NC 2015

The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 3rd – Counting Crows “A Long December” (1996)

Features
April 8, 2026 0

Great Lakes “Don’t Swim Too Close”

Album Reviews
April 8, 2026 0

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan to be celebrated in Ace compilation featuring a myriad of stars

News
April 8, 2026 0
Album art for Nic Panken Near Divine or Merely Rhyme

Nic Panken “Near Divine or Merely Rhyme”

Album Reviews
April 8, 2026 0

Book Review: Geoffrey Himes “Willie Nelson, All the Albums” The Stories Behind The Music

Book Reviews
April 8, 2026 0
Countng Crows in Charlotte, NC 2015
Features

The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 3rd – Counting Crows “A Long December” (1996)

April 8, 2026 0
From the fan favourite album Recovering the Satellites, this song was highly rated across the board, clearly striking a chord with writers (5 of whom voted for it), as its themes of regret and heartbreak melded […]
Album Reviews

Great Lakes “Don’t Swim Too Close”

April 8, 2026 0
Musical subtlety and insightful words add up to a contender for album of any year. Album press releases often fall into two categories: perceptive or preposterous. Especially when a band is new to you, the first […]
News

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan to be celebrated in Ace compilation featuring a myriad of stars

April 8, 2026 0
Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan are to be celebrated by artists such as Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Randy Newman, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Brian Wilson and Laura Nyro as part of […]

  • The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 3rd – Counting Crows “A Long December” (1996)
  • Great Lakes “Don’t Swim Too Close”
  • Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan to be celebrated in Ace compilation featuring a myriad of stars
  • Nic Panken “Near Divine or Merely Rhyme”
  • Book Review: Geoffrey Himes “Willie Nelson, All the Albums” The Stories Behind The Music
  • AUK Shortcuts: Jefferson Ross, Old Sap, Tuomas Räisänen, James Houlahan, David Coller, Joel Robson, Matthew Ryan, Sammi Accola, and Mills & Farrell
  • Foy Vance “The Wake”
  • Preview: Sara Petite is back for Spring tour dates ahead of new album
  • Nathan Evans Fox “Sevindust” – poison spreading across the land
  • Video: Michael Weston King “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore” – disarming reflections on life and loss
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • FredArnold: Thank you - silly error. Now amended
  • FredArnold: Thank you - my bad. Now amended
  • NIels Østergaard: Music From Big Pink was The Bands debut album not their second album.

Latest interviews

Interviews

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

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Rioghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
Interviews

Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

April 7, 2026 0
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 […]
Interviews

Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

April 2, 2026 0
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 […]

You may have missed…

News

Jim Lauderdale announces new album “Game Changer”

July 13, 2022 0
Americana renaissance man Jim Lauderdale has announced details of a new album ‘Game Changer’—his 35th full-length album—which features his new single ‘That Kind Of Life (That Kind Of Day),’ a rollicking ode to what Jim calls […]
News

Robert Plant is our Saving Grace with a new album for September

July 21, 2025 1
Robert Plant has announced the release of “Saving Grace“, the first album featuring a new band of players, which he calls “a song book of the lost and found” – it arrives September 26th on Nonesuch […]
Album Reviews

Dan Michaelson “First Light” (The state51 Conspiracy, 2017)

December 22, 2017 0
First Light is an album of elegant music which serves as a frame for Dan Michaelson’s distinctive cracked and battered vocals – like a canvas sail hauled out for another use in the face of an […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool