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Live Review: Neilson Hubbard, Audrey Spillman Hubbard, Samuel James Taylor, The Sound Lounge, Sutton, 27th January 2023

February 6, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0
The stage consisting of three chairs, three mics and two acoustic guitars served as a useful reminder that musical pleasure does not require a lot of kit. With a totally absorbing performance of songs and lively […]
Album Reviews

Helene Cronin “Landmarks”

February 6, 2023 Michael Macy 0
Veteran storyteller sets life’s lessons to music in her sophomore release. ‘Landmarks’, Helene Cronin’s latest album, is music for the dance of life. It also finds the words to face down life’s challenges with grace and […]
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Live Review: Nickel Creek + Lau Noah, Union Chapel, London, 27th January 2023

February 3, 2023 Brian Hancill 0
The first sign of the wild enthusiasm that greeted Nickel Creek’s first UK show in 20 years was the queue outside the Union Chapel as the temperature plunged towards 2 degrees Celsius on a dark January […]
Album Reviews

Rhys Duursma “Songs From Swan Street Vol.1”

February 2, 2023 Tim Martin 0
A debut EP with lots of promise and directions to follow. Australian singer-songwriter Rhys Duursma’s debut solo EP starts with ‘Same Old’, a fairly routine piece of folk music, which mutates halfway through into a dusty […]
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Live Review: Americana Music Association UK Awards, Hackney Empire, London – 26th January 2023

February 2, 2023 Jonathan Aird 2
It’s a cliché but none the less true, that all good things have to come to an end and their annual awards show is the capping event of the Americana Music Association UK’s annual conference, held […]

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Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “4th of July”

July 3, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm tonight. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place […]
Leah Blevins
Live Reviews

Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026

July 3, 2026 0
Performances don’t get much more intimate when less than 50 people are in the front space of a record shop and the artist is playing unamplified, less than five feet away. In the autumn of 2025, […]
Album Reviews

Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen “They Call Us The Lucky Ones”

July 3, 2026 0
Americana royalty teams up with a cracking Texas band to produce a varied and highly enjoyable mix of country, soul and stomp. Ryan Bingham is a comparatively rare example of an americana artist who has broken […]

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  • Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026
  • Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen “They Call Us The Lucky Ones”
  • Americana Stories – Simon Lamont “Americana”
  • Our new supporters playlist is out later today – win a vinyl copy of Ashley McBryde’s new album
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Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0
It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]
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Interview: Jeff Finlin – the hero who journeys among us

July 1, 2026 0
In 2023, an AUK writer displayed exquisite taste by naming Jeff Finlin as one of the top ten greatest americana artists of all time. Congrats to Jeff, as well as, after all, he did record the […]
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Interview: Matt Patershuk writes songs for the small moments we all share

June 24, 2026 1
As an animal lover and caretaker of horses, dogs and cats, the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Patershuk certainly caught my attention. Dog Tiger Horses on Red Hen Records (2025) is green as grass, country-folk […]

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Jonah Kagen “You Again” – like a bad penny?

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Jonah Kagen’s debut album is put today, it’s called “Sunflowers And Leather” and this song, ‘You Again‘, is the most recent single from it.  Jonah Kagen took a big life swerve when a relationship ended – […]
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Luoma “The Maple Plain”

May 10, 2022 0
Fair to middling, back porch Americana recorded in the countryside of Minnesota – worth a visit, but you wouldn’t want to spend too long there… There’s an air of mystery to Luoma’s ‘The Maple Plain.’  It’s not […]
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Video: Emily Barker “Where Have the Sparrows Gone?”

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Emily Barker’s brand new album, ‘A Dark Murmuration of Words’, is released today 4th September on Thirty Tigers.  It’s the highly anticipated follow-up to the successful ‘Sweet Kind of Blue’, which helped her to land the […]

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