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Tony Rose “Medicine Tunes” (Cannery Row Records 2018)

October 11, 2018 Dave Clarke 0
Tony Rose is from Glasgow and this is his first solo record. He has previously recorded as a member of Two Dollar Bash and has a career extending beyond Scotland, playing across Europe, jamming and swapping […]
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Besides Daniel “T E E M I N G” (Hubbub! Music, 2018)

October 11, 2018 Alan O'Hare 0
“There is no more sombre enemy of good art than the pram in the hall.” The English literary critic Cyril Connolly said that. It’s unclear if the only child of Major Matthew William Kemble Connolly ever […]
Album Reviews

Adam’s House Cat “Town Burned Down” (ATO Records 2018)

October 11, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0
‘Any ful kno’ that the Drive by Truckers were founded in 1996 by Patterson Hood and Mike Cooley but 9 years before that came Adam’s House Cat, founded in a dank basement in Florence, Alabama. The […]
Live Reviews

Luke Combs + Ashley McBryde, Shepherds Bush O2, London, 4th October 2018

October 11, 2018 David Chalfen 0
To west London for the second of Luke Combs’ sell-out nights on what has been an impressively sold-out debut UK tour. Combs has made huge commercial and creative headway in the last three years and his […]
Live Reviews

John Smith, Cecil Sharp House, London, 20th September 2018

October 11, 2018 Andrew Maxwell Morris 0
The scene was set for something slightly special as I descended the stairs towards the wood panelled bar at Cecil Sharp house this evening. The weather had turned – the wind was starting to kick up […]

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Don’t forget our Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more – join us in Liverpool in November!

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As usual, we wanted to remind you about Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK, which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House later this year on […]
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Jim James “Wowed Out”

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Jim James escapes information overload through beauty and hope. We’re living in an age of information overload, where almost everything is aimed at shocking or amazing us. Wowed Out is where Jim James thinks our brains […]
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Foy Vance to release multi-part new album and play autumn tour dates

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Emmy-winning singer-songwriter Foy Vance has announced his eighth studio album, IF, for release on 30th April 2027. Described as an autobiography in album form, IF will be released in three parts, with each part arriving as […]

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  • Jim James “Wowed Out”
  • Foy Vance to release multi-part new album and play autumn tour dates
  • Sian & Rob Colquhoun “Sourwood Honey”
  • AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – August 2026
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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the weird in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 0
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]
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Interview: Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester on why “It’s A Joy To Be Alive”

August 19, 2026 0
One thing everyone quickly learns as they get older is that time waits for no one, and that life continues its unstoppable flow forward. Americana UK has followed Ferris & Sylvester’s career since their first album, […]
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Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]

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