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Silver Lake 66 “Ragged Heart” (Independent, 2019)

September 23, 2019 Elise Kennedy 0
‘Ragged Heart’ by duo Silver Lake 66 defines what modern-day Americana music is. Taking its influences from classical country music, folk and a little bit of blues,  it falls into similar realms as The Civil Wars. […]
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Dallas Burrow “Southern Wind” (Subliminal Hyminal, 2019)

September 23, 2019 Ewan Lury 0
When you look at who Dallas Burrow is playing alongside on his debut album, you can only think that this album is going to be as career-defining as he hopes it will be. With names such […]
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Harvey Russell “Liquid Damage” (Independent, 2019)

September 23, 2019 Alan Fitter 0
If you listen to Harvey Russell’s new album ‘Liquid Damage’ on SoundCloud, then there are three hashtags: #Americana (we’ll come back to that), #honkytonk (lots of that on the album) and #alt-country. Well this album shouldn’t really […]
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Jason Tyler Burton “Kentuckian” (Independent 2019)

September 20, 2019 Keith Hargreaves 0
Kentuckian is a straight down the middle Americana roots album full of all the delights of the genre. Some stirring playing, acoustic rhythms and rhymes, some keening harmonies, strong blue-collar songwriting all topped off by Tyler […]
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The Jorgensens “The Lexington Stretch” (Independent, 2019)

September 20, 2019 Viv Fish 0
What a stunner! The opening track to this new album is powerful, pure, alluring and thought-provoking. The first note of the a capella voices will bring you to a standstill, and you will have to stop […]

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AUK celebrates with an event in Liverpool city centre on Saturday November 28th. Well, unbelievably, it was a quarter of a century ago that Americana UK first came into existence as a one-man operation run from a […]
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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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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”

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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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Some details have come through on Joan Baez’s upcoming new album.  To be released on March 2nd 2018 via Proper Records Whistle Down the Wind will feature a selection of songs by Baez’s favourite songwriters. Whistle Down […]
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Jason Isbell and Sheryl Crow cover Dylan’s “Everything Is Broken” – Listen

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Sheryl Crow has covered Bob Dylan songs in the past such as ‘Mississippi’ and ‘Tombstone Blues’, and she keeps up that tradition on her forthcoming ‘Threads’ album, due next month, where she covers Dylan’s ‘Everything Is […]
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