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Luke Winslow King “Blue Mesa” (Bloodshot, 2018)

June 28, 2018 Mark Hegarty 0
Blue Mesa is Luke Winslow King’s fifth album, and his fourth for Bloodshot Records, coming two years after ‘I’m Glad Trouble Don’t Last Always’. His latest offering serves up a familiar sound with well-constructed, heartfelt songs […]
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Sam Llanas “Return of the Goya – Part 1” (Llanas Music, 2018)

June 27, 2018 Mark Johnson 0
As this review was being submitted, news broke in the USA of allegations about Sam Llanas made by Tessa Neumann, stepdaughter of BoDeans frontman Kurt Neumann. Graphic and detailed, they go back to when Kurt Neumann […]
Live Reviews

Black Deer Festival – Eridge Park, 22nd-24th June 2018

June 27, 2018 Mark Whitfield 1
Every festival I’ve been to for the last 5 years has ended up as kind of tsunami of varying proportions, and if you believe it’s all evidence of the Gods’ passing judgement on the headliners, then […]
Live Reviews

Wizz Jones & Ralph McTell, Junction 2, Cambridge, 21st June 2018

June 26, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
In the wake of the passing of John Renbourn in 2015, old friends Ralph McTell and Wizz Jones were prompted to finally get around to recording an album together the title of which – ‘About Time‘ […]
Album Reviews

Leon III “Leon III” (Cornelius Chapel Records, 2018)

June 26, 2018 Paul Kerr 0
Leon III (or Leon the Third if you prefer, their PR blurb mentions both) are a side project of two members of a Virginia alt-country band, the Wrinkle Neck Mules, a band this reviewer had never […]

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Jobi Riccio announces UK and Ireland tour dates for Autumn

August 24, 2026 0
Colorado-born, Nashville-based songwriter Jobi Riccio will make her UK and Ireland live debut in October 2026, bringing the songs from her recently released second album, Face The Feeling, to audiences across the UK and Ireland.  Riccio […]
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Chasen Wayne and the Honky Tonk Machine “The Diamond Saloon”

August 24, 2026 0
Wonderfully ambitious third album from Austin honky-tonker. Chasen Wayne is not a musician to do anything by halves. After releasing two well-received albums, his third is a bold and distinct mélange of country, psychedelia, surf punk, […]
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Americana Stories – Jack Roscoe “Out of the Woods”

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Jack Roscoe finally emerged as a songwriter during Lockdown after years of stalled attempts at music. He released his debut album, the folky Out of the Woods, in November 2023. He followed this up with his second […]

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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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He seemed like a hearty oak that could never be felled, the one person who might avoid the fate of all people, but it is twelve years today since the titan of folk Pete Seeger died. […]
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Brian Fallon of the Gaslight Anthem returns with his first new solo music in five years, to be released via Lesser Known Records. As you might imagine, it’s a pretty hard-rocking outing, and on Not Bad […]

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