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
  • [ March 12, 2026 ] The Top 10 Americana Songs Of All Time: Chas Lacey Features
  • [ March 12, 2026 ] John Hollier & The Rêverie “Rainmaker” Album Reviews
  • [ March 12, 2026 ] “I’ll Take You There” documentary premieres today on YouTube News
  • [ March 12, 2026 ] Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy” Interviews
  • [ March 12, 2026 ] Rosanne Cash: “Time is a Mirror” – a Life in Song Features
HomeReviews

Reviews

Live Reviews

Live Review: Dawn Landes & Friends, Milton Court, London – 7th September 2024

October 2, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
No normal gig this, more of an event – with Dawn Landes’s latest album, ‘The Liberated Women’s Songbook‘ at the heart of it.  There’s a band, there are supporting singers and musicians and there are little […]
artwork for Kelley Mickwee album “Everything Beautiful”
Album Reviews

Kelley Mickwee “Everything Beautiful”

October 2, 2024 Chas Lacey 0
Soulful singing and retro-production reminiscent of ‘Dusty In Memphis’. Having set out to make “a record that sounds like a girl from Memphis, because that’s who I am”, Kelley Mickwee’s ‘Everything Beautiful’ has a wonderful retro-soul […]
Ruthie Foster Mileage 2024
Album Reviews

Ruthie Foster “Mileage”

October 1, 2024 Tom Harding 0
A life’s journey through song. Ruthie Foster’s tenth album, her first for the legendary Sun Records, unfolds as a biography of her life and career, reflecting on the canon of American music itself and delivering a […]
Album Reviews

Rosko Piko “Beautifully Wasted”

October 1, 2024 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0
Kent England duo Rosko Piko presents some beautifully crafted Americana on their debut album. You can describe the sound of a certain band/artist in a few words, or some might warrant a more detailed explanation. For […]
Artwork for The Clearwater Swimmers self-titled album
Album Reviews

The Clearwater Swimmers “The Clearwater Swimmers”

October 1, 2024 Andy Short 0
Not just treading water in the shallow end. The Clearwater Swimmers describe their self-titled debut album as “a collection of field notes exploring gratitude”. The collection is an indie rock, alternative folk affair with a heavy […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 193 194 195 … 1,193 »

Donate to Americana UK

If you enjoy what you're reading and don't want to support us on a monthly basis, you can help us keep this site free from looking like one of those awful REACH sites by making a one off donation towards our running costs. We all do this in our spare time! THANK YOU.

Recent Forum Posts

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    AC/DC - Powerage

    By Joe Nathan , 14 hours ago

  • RE: Nothing is real (maybe)

    As the article states, "All of these claims require sig...

    By Paul Kerr , 14 hours ago

  • RE: Pedro Sánchez

    I reckon that first past the post will be the standard ...

    By Paul Kerr , 14 hours ago

  • RE: Useful Links - Post Them HERE

    This AI shit is getting worse./p>

    By Paul Kerr , 14 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Various Artists - Wanted! The Outlaws

    By Joe Nathan , 17 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

      Alvvays - Alvvays

    By Joe Nathan , 19 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Henry Paul Band - Feel the Heat

    By Joe Nathan , 21 hours ago

  • Paul Villers

    RE: Versions!

    This time a Dylan 'classic' although there are more tun...

    By Paul Villers , 22 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Black Sabbath - Black Sabbath

    By Joe Nathan , 22 hours ago

our latest posts

The Last Waltz encore 25th November 1976

The Top 10 Americana Songs Of All Time: Chas Lacey

Features
March 12, 2026 0
Artwork for John Hollier & The Reverie album "Rainmaker".

John Hollier & The Rêverie “Rainmaker”

Album Reviews
March 12, 2026 0

“I’ll Take You There” documentary premieres today on YouTube

News
March 12, 2026 0

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

Interviews
March 12, 2026 0

Rosanne Cash: “Time is a Mirror” – a Life in Song

Features
March 12, 2026 0
The Last Waltz encore 25th November 1976
Features

The Top 10 Americana Songs Of All Time: Chas Lacey

March 12, 2026 0
The devil may have all the best tunes but six months and many songs down the line from this feature’s inaugural selection, the erudition and impeccable taste of my esteemed colleagues mean that many of the […]
Artwork for John Hollier & The Reverie album "Rainmaker".
Album Reviews

John Hollier & The Rêverie “Rainmaker”

March 12, 2026 0
Strong passionate songs from a band on the rise. John Hollier was raised on a crawfish farm in Louisiana, which tells you where his musical roots lie. He and his touring band of Teddy Thibedoux Jones […]
News

“I’ll Take You There” documentary premieres today on YouTube

March 12, 2026 0
Alabama’s Musical and Civil Rights legacy takes centre stage in a brand new documentary film entitled I’ll Take You There: Discovering the Sound of Alabama, which premieres today at 8 pm GMT on YouTube. The cast […]

  • The Top 10 Americana Songs Of All Time: Chas Lacey
  • John Hollier & The Rêverie “Rainmaker”
  • “I’ll Take You There” documentary premieres today on YouTube
  • Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”
  • Rosanne Cash: “Time is a Mirror” – a Life in Song
  • The Black Crowes “A Pound Of Feathers”
  • Ringo makes it two with T Bone on the “Long Long Road”
  • Cat Clyde “My Love” – boundless, world encompassing
  • Video: Frank Turner “Nashville Tennessee Live 2006” – I was raised in Middle England
  • Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”
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
  • Mike Ritchie: This is a glorious album, delivered with heart and warmth and a moody gentleness while Dirtbag Saloon shows a protest…
  • Mark Whitfield: Lovely to hear from you Tim although have to ask sorry which Tim, we have had a few over the…
  • Tim: Hello Mark, just dropped by for the first time in ages and very pleased to see Sound of Lies in…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 0
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 […]
Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

You may have missed…

AUK's Chain Gang

AUK’s Chain Gang: Los Lobos “Will the Wolf Survive?”

December 12, 2022 0
In the last AUK Chain Gang Guy Lincoln took us to the West Coast of Scotland and Glasgow’s snarling mavericks, James King and the Lone Wolves, but let’s catch a transatlantic flight to a very different […]
AUK Mini-Gigs

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Dean Owens

April 22, 2020 0
We are all having to find new ways to live and cope in the age of social distancing.  There are such barriers to our natural instinct to socialise.  but as Dean Owens sings: “Let’s all get […]
Tracks

Track Premiere: Bill Filipiak “Fearing The Dawn”

August 4, 2021 0
‘Fearing the Dawn‘ is a country-blues shuffle of a song on which Bill Filipiak sings of coming to terms with his father’s death – not an easy journey as he confesses that “It took five years […]

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