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Seth Lakeman “The Granite Way”

February 17, 2025 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Lakeman’s latest rousing, compelling reminder that sometimes folk-rock – it just rocks. At 13 solo albums and counting and with a career stretching back to the early 1990s, certain things can be taken for granted about […]

Live Review: Americana Music Association UK Awards, Hackney Church, London, 23rd January 2025

February 14, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

And at last the bad weather had arrived. After a couple of nights at the Evening Music Showcases where there had been a distinct absence of snow or even rain and things had barely been chilly […]

Live Review: Lake Street Dive, Roundhouse, London – 31st January 2025

February 14, 2025 David Jarman 1

How to describe Lake Street Dive? The five piece band have somehow synthesised many corners of US pop and soul music into their own distinctive blend with an irresistible party vibe. London’s Roundhouse was sold out […]

Live Review: UK Americana Music Week – AMAUK UK Showcases, Hackney Venues, 22nd January 2025

February 14, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

And here we were, back again, for another night of mad dashing about to hear the maximum amount of music possible from the various Showcases across the five venues in Hackney Central that provide a home […]

Mary Bue “The Wildness of Living and Dying”

February 14, 2025 Paul Russell 0

Album nine for Minneapolis singer, yogi and retreat guide. You have to hand it to Mary Bue – her utterly focused mission to make highly personal music that links into her other ventures as a yogi […]

Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026

July 15, 2026 0

And it’s off to another new venue in London, prestigiously located at Olympia in one of those surprisingly hard to get to parts of London. Few are the venues that feel the need to post outlying […]

Cover art for Max Subar album "Anything Could Be"

Max Subar “Anything Could Be”

July 15, 2026 1

Chicago singer-songwriter’s highly promising debut album explores the ceaseless ebb and flow of life’s hopes and fears. Recorded in a house on the shore overlooking a frozen lake in Wisconsin, while nature lay dormant beneath a […]

Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change

July 15, 2026 0

Park Hills Circle is the solo project of Maris Tierney, and Alaskan-Irish singer-songwriter who lives in Chicago. She’s just released the debut album All Of A Sudden, and today we have the title track to share. Maris is […]

Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0

Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]

Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1

Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

Interviews

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3

Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

Continental Shift

Continental Shift 6. Netherlands

January 23, 2025 4

This is our sixth and final article in this series about European americana and we’ve arrived in the Netherlands, probably the most established americana market in continental Europe. Looking back over the other articles, there are […]

Features

AUK’s Chain Gang: Eddie Reader “Dram Behind the Curtain”

June 7, 2021 0

Last week Jon Aird managed to link the concept of stars with Flatt & Scruggs’ song ‘Iron Curtain‘ – this week it was either Iron Maiden or Eminem’s ‘Curtain Call’ album but since even our own […]

Album Reviews

Peter Rowan “Calling You From My Mountain – A Bluegrass Journey”

July 22, 2022 0

If you ever doubted bluegrass’s continuing relevance then this is the album to hear. The rollicking take on Woody Guthrie’s ‘New York Town’ that starts ‘Calling You From My Mountain’ proves that Peter Rowan’s voice is […]