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Jim White & Trey Blake “The Long Road Home” – throw off those mental chains

January 7, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1
What a song we have for you today – taken from Jim White & Trey Blake’s new album ‘Precious Bane‘ (out on the last day of January).  It’s a gothic polemic, of sorts, a declaration of […]
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Jessie James “Rise And Shine” – let’s kick this year off with positivity

January 6, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
What kind of year are we going to have on Americana UK?  Well, there’s worse things to envisage than a year of folk/punk energy focused through the kick-arseist of all instruments the ukulele.  Jessie James, from […]
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Michael Weston King “Sally Sparkles” / Lou Dalgleish “The Empty Swing”

December 23, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0
The americana community in the UK is fairly close-knit so many of you will know already that one of the little girls who died in Southport over the summer was Bebe King, the granddaughter of Michael […]
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Mince Pie Mondays – just two sleeps, just two sleeps…

December 23, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
And, dear festive hat wearing reader, this is truly the last batch of the Yule songs for this… umm… Yule.  As solstice becomes just a hazy memory, and the stockings are being dusted off for their […]
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Jingle Bells Friday – what happened to all the wrapping paper?

December 20, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Into the last weekend before the big day with the big feast and the gleeful exchange of Americana themed albums – what’ll it be this year?  And tomorrow is solstice, which is nice, although perhaps a […]

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The Brothers Gillespie “Kingfisher”

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“The spirit of Americana UK” – our writing team remembers Paul Kerr

October 8, 2026 0
It’s been a sad time for us here in the AUK community with the loss of two of our writers in such a short period of time, and the loss of our Live Reviews Editor for […]
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The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Fred Arnold

October 8, 2026 0
It’s the third in the new Feature, seeking out the best americana album by a UK artist, and Fred Arnold throws his hat in the ring this week What a challenge is this? – as a […]
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Bill Scorzari “Sidereal Days (Day 2)”

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Part two of Bill Scorzari’s double-album project has him weaving from love lost to love kept and on the go. Bill Scorzari is a former New York trial lawyer with a Walt Whitman beard that extends […]

  • “The spirit of Americana UK” – our writing team remembers Paul Kerr
  • The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Fred Arnold
  • Bill Scorzari “Sidereal Days (Day 2)”
  • Live Review: The Annie Keating Band + The Dreaming Spires, Little Rabbit Barn, Ardleigh, Colchester – 2nd October 2026
  • The Brothers Gillespie “Kingfisher”
  • Americana Stories – Stuart Anderson “The Doubts That Make Us Strong”
  • The Male Pattern “I Was Shot In The Heart”
  • Élise LeBlanc “Lavender Honey” – honkey-tonk romance
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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Robert Rex Waller, Jr “The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Any More” – no moon neither

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Well, this is pretty exciting – the I See Hawks In L.A. frontman has a new solo album coming on October 20th.  It’s called ‘See The Big Man Cry‘ and was produced by Carla Olson.  Rob […]
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Gabriel Birnbaum “Not Alone” (Arrowhawk Records, 2019)

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Gabriel Birnbaum takes us down a mellow path on his first solo record: ‘Not Alone’. This is a stripped back and low key album when compared to Birnbaum’s indie-rock style as part of band Wilder Maker […]
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The End Of America “A Million Miles Of Low Road” – Listen

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In the same way that The Milk Carton Kids have to endure endless comparisons to Simon & Garfunkel (poor, poor Milk Carton Kids), The End Of America are having to learn to shoulder the burden of […]

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