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Americana UK Deputy Editor Jon Aird has a daily listen to the best new americana tracks

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Junior Sisk (Featuring Dan Tyminski) “A Man Like Me” – I walk alone…

February 12, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Another Monday, another start of the week with a Bluegrass tune, and ‘A Man Like Me‘ is everything a Bluegrass ballad of broken hearts and love gone wrong should be.  There’s a great interplay between the […]
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Something for the weekend: Dylan John Thomas “Feel The Fire”

February 9, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. We leave you with a song from the new self-titled debut album by Glasgow based Dylan John Thomas – although he’s been championed by the likes […]
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Kellie Loder “When We Kiss” – A romantic night leads to a romantic song

February 9, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
Kellie Loder ramps up the romance on her new single ‘When We Kiss’. Loder’s lyrics perfectly capture the giddy exhilaration of a newly found love. Her breathy delivery is a meditation on the boundless possibilities that […]
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Lavinia Blackwall “Morning To Remember” – ah, the joys of Suburbia

February 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
The protagonist of Lavinia Blackwall’s latest single ‘Morning To Remember‘ can be found stumbling through a life so incredibly hum-drum that all there is to do is dream of something better.  It sounds like she might […]
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Geneviève Racette “Same Old Me” – Lonesome steel, a string quartet and a meditative look at self-doubt

February 8, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
Geneviève Racette wrestles with self-doubt on her new single ‘Same Old Me’.   Featuring some incredibly subtle pedal steel playing by Matt Kelly (City and Color) the song is a quiet reflection following a social event that […]

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Matthew Payne “Better Times”

April 27, 2026 0
Texas Hill Country troubadour releases a very fine debut album. Matthew Payne is a singer-songwriter from the delightfully named Dripping Springs near Austin, Texas. A short bio was included in Graeme Tait’s review of Payne’s excellent […]
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Old Crow Medicine Show “My Side Of The Mountain” – living in the past?

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Well, it looks like all-star week on Tracks might be extending into all-star fortnight, and we’ll admit that we’re somewhat conflicted regarding that, as one of Americana UK’s Track section’s reasons for existence is to bring […]
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Video Premiere: Michael Weston King “The Golden Hour”

April 27, 2026 0
It’s a privilege to premiere the video for The Golden Hour, the opening track from Michael Weston King’s latest album. It’s great to see all the performers at work in precise collaboration; Colin Elliot’s insistent keys, […]

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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]
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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]

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One of the most under-rated Christmas films of all time is ‘Jingle All The Way’ which currently has 17% on Rotten Tomatoes. We say that by way of introduction to news that Josh Rouse is to […]
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Mike Plume “Lonesome Stretch Of Highway” (Royalty Records, 2020)

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Mike Plume “is a true alt-country legend in Canada, with a dozen releases since his debut in 1993,” according to his press. Having not encountered him before ‘Lonesome Stretch Of Highway’ comes as a pleasant discovery […]
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The Song Remains: Tom T. Hall 1936 – 2021

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Songwriter, performer and author, feted by fellow artists and known respectfully as ‘The Storyteller’. The news of the death of Tom T. Hall on August 20th 2021 elicited this response from AUK favourites The Drive-By Truckers: […]

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