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Great Willow “Age Of Reason” – Bing bing, bong bong bong, bing bing

May 26, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
It has been a while, quite a while, since we last featured Great Willow (although we have heard more recently from James Combs, one half of the duo), so it’s really nice to have some new […]
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Kurt Vile “Zoom 97” – passing through, not speeding through

May 22, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
Featuring his trademark “relaxed” vocals and playing, Zoom 97 is the second single from Kurt Vile’s new album, Philadelphia’s been good to me, which will be out May 29th via Verve Records. As Zoom 97 glides […]
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Rob Burger “Valley People” – with Iron & Wine

May 21, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, this is that rare thing, a doubly old new song: Valley People originally started life as an instrumental piece that Rob Burger wrote during a break from a demanding touring stretch. The piece began as […]
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Father John Misty “The Payoff” – read the small print, sucker

May 20, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
Here’s a song that doesn’t offer much in the way of optimism, talking as it does of deals, probably of the shady kind, and a world that ought to get you, and, hey, get this, you […]
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Lisa Bouchelle “Make This World Stand Still” – featuring Amanda Shires

May 19, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
Now, we’re dipping into the postbag, and thank you, Americana UK readers, for being so loyal to the analogue world. We appreciate every handwritten letter, even more so when it has clearly been produced with the […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Buffalo Springfield

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A picture of the members of Buffalo Springfield, including Neil Young and Stephen Stills -
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Buffalo Springfield

June 3, 2026 1
There’s something about Buffalo Springfield. I can’t quite put my finger on it. Their work is shrouded in a haze. That is, it’s hard to look at anything that Stephen Stills or Neil Young did on […]
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Doug Mishkin “Tip Of The Spear”

June 3, 2026 0
A veteran activist singer-songwriter releases his latest bulletin on our troubled times, mixed in with more personal musings. Think of protest music, and one thinks of 1960s America, when the Vietnam War, in particular, inspired a […]
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Paul Metsa “Songs of Resistance & Resolve: 1984–2025”

June 3, 2026 0
Collection spanning the Minnesotan’s career highlights how fighting for justice is as important now as it ever was. When you think of americana and protest music, the striking image of Woody Guthrie brandishing his guitar with […]

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  • Doug Mishkin “Tip Of The Spear”
  • Paul Metsa “Songs of Resistance & Resolve: 1984–2025”
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  • It was fifty years and five months today…
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Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

May 29, 2026 0
To say Ben Vaughn has had an eclectic musical career would be a gross understatement. He grew up in the Philadelphia area, and his journey into music began when a kind uncle gave him a Duane […]
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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

May 27, 2026 0
If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3
Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

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Video Premiere: Jake Ybarra “A Whole Lot to Remember”

February 28, 2023 0
The latest single from Jake Ybarra is full of rockabilly energy.  ‘A Whole Lot to Remember’ is the tale of an unruly party guy, delivered in a suitably upbeat, uptempo fashion by Ybarra, whose rhythmic strum […]
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Trials of Cato and Brìghde Chaimbeul are winners at Radio 2’s Folk Awards

October 17, 2019 0
The winners of the BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards 2019 were announced last night in a ceremony presented by Mark Radcliffe at Bridgewater Hall, Manchester as part of the Manchester Folk Festival, the whole thing being […]
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Lucinda Williams announces “Good Souls Better Angels”, UK dates

February 28, 2020 0
Thirty Tigers and Highway 20 have announced the release of a new Lucinda Williams album, ‘Good Souls Better Angels’ which is due out April 24th and which “unabashedly takes on some of the human, social and […]

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