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artwork for Ferran Orriols album "Darrere els horts / Behind The Orchard"

Ferran Orriols “Darrere Els Horts / Behind The Orchard”

May 9, 2025 Graeme Tait 0

Orriols’ sophomore album builds on the promise of his debut, musically defying borders and lyrically transcending language. Following on from his critically acclaimed debut album “PLATA (SILVER)”, released in 2023, Catalan singer-songwriter Ferran Orriols has returned […]

Book Review: In-Law Country – Geoffrey Himes “How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985”

May 9, 2025 Tim Martin 2

Published in association with The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, this hefty (357 pages + notes) book examines what Himes calls “a musical movement of outsiders who, in time, became influential insiders.” As this […]

artwork for Mark Mulholland album "Fighting With Your Shadow"

Mark Mulholland “Fighting With Your Shadow”

May 9, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

Unflagging optimism pervades the tales of a wandering musician. There’s something instantly appealing about the life of an artist who travels the world as they slowly build their body of work. A profusion of examples can […]

Folk Roundup – Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Wise Woman, Flook, Iona Lane, Passengers & Pioneers Project

May 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

The latest Folk Roundup is a pretty mixed bag on what we (loosely) call Folk music, with the welcome return of a long-serving – but relatively small outputting – band in the form of Flook, as […]

Album cover artwork for Sam Robbins "So Much I Still Don't See"

Sam Robbins “So Much I Still Don’t See”

May 8, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Sunny and melodic folk-pop with thoughtful and philosophical words. “So Much I Still Don’t See” is Sam Robbins’ third album after his debut, “Finally Feeling Young” (2021) and 2022’s “Bigger Than in Between”. It is melodic […]

Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking

July 17, 2026 0

We’ve been lucky enough here at Americana UK to have been aware of Anna Tivel and her astonishing songwriting pretty much from her emergence into the folk/singer-songwriter/americana combined genres. We haven’t been shy with our praise […]

Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”

July 17, 2026 0

When Dennis McNally published A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead in 2002, he had an almost impossible task. It needed to document a band whose history was already wrapped in layers […]

Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

July 17, 2026 1

Or England tour to be precise. Tickets on sale from next Wednesday 22nd July. You may have heard of this artist we’ve mentioned on the site once or twice who goes by the name of Bob […]

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