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Track Premiere: Katie Dahl “Since I Was Eight”

May 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Katie Dahl is a folk singer rooted in Wisconson – her family have lived  on the Wisconsin peninsula for 175 years.  With four albums to her name she has built a reputation for mixing unflinching authenticiy […]
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Leftover Salmon “Fire And Brimstone” – a devilish brew

May 10, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Where bluegrass meets jam band that’s where you’ll find Leftover Salmon – although it’s not quite how the band choose to label themselves.  As Band co-founder and lead singer Vince Herman comments: “We cover the music […]
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Lloyd Cole “Warm By The Fire” – welcome to the Dystopia

May 10, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
On the new single from Lloyd Cole’s upcoming album ‘On Pain‘, which he is releasing on his EarMUSIC label on the 23rd July he sings that “it’s warmer by the fire, by the flames” to a […]
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Starpainter “Summer In Your Mouth” – how long ’til you come around again?

May 9, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Here’s the second single from Alberta band Starpainter’s new album ‘Rattlesnake Dream’ which will be released on June 2nd.  It’s a quietly impressive song of steadfast longing, that had a literary inspiration.  Starpainter’s Joel Stretch explained […]
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Something for the long weekend: Billy Bragg “Take Down the Union Jack”

May 5, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
“Take down the Union Jack It clashes with the sunset And put it in the attic with the emperor’s old clothes When did it fall apart? Sometime in the eighties When the great and the good […]

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Classic Clips: Chris Hillman “Turn! Turn! Turn!” – Live at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, 2017

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Some sad news to end the week with: Americana UK loses two of our best, Paul Kerr and Martin Johnson

October 2, 2026 11
We’re sorry to end this week with some sad news for regular readers which some of you will know already via social media. It’s been a very tough last few days for us as a team […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Kyp Harness

October 2, 2026 0
Kyp Harness makes music on his own terms and has been doing it for 35 years. He is prolific, having put out 20 independent albums of storytelling and melody, with his latest (Lovely) released in April […]
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Mistaken for Wayne “Whitefish”

October 2, 2026 0
Musical pursuits in the heart of rural Canadian life. Not only outside the music industry but within its margins (much less frequently at its very core), there are those for whom music is one of several […]

  • Some sad news to end the week with: Americana UK loses two of our best, Paul Kerr and Martin Johnson
  • Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Kyp Harness
  • Mistaken for Wayne “Whitefish”
  • Jake Bugg announces a fortnight of intimate record store appearances
  • Classic Clips: Chris Hillman “Turn! Turn! Turn!” – Live at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, 2017
  • The Oystermen “Darn Tootin”
  • Our new supporters playlist is out today – win a pair of tickets to 2027’s Cambridge Folk Festival
  • Live Review: Joe Martin + Maggie May Treanor, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 26th September 2026
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  • Michael Hurley “The Werewolf Song” – howls at the moon
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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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Martin Harley “Morning Sun”

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Making a welcome return to the studio after a five-year hiatus, Cardiff-born Martin Harley delivers an excellent set of laidback self-penned songs recorded at Manchester’s Airtight Studio. In total Martin has released eight albums, four recorded […]
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Jesse Malin + Kris Gruen, Greystones Sheffield – Sunday 3rd October 2021

October 13, 2021 0
Expectations were toned down, best to not get too excited, right? If we are indeed ‘post’ anything then it’s possible to observe that the post lockdown / Covid / pandemic gig has been a bit of […]
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Interview: Los Lobos’ Steve Berlin on LA’s native sons, WAR, and how to last forty-years as a band

July 27, 2021 0
How a stop-gap album became a statement on Los Lobos’ musical DNA thanks to COVID. For nearly fifty years Los Lobos have been one of the great curators and stewards of American music, digging deep into […]

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