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Hot Buttered Rum “No Reason” – Or is there?

September 26, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, Hot Buttered Rum sounds like a beverage equally suitable for the Arctic explorer and the Eighteenth Century Pirate – and here we are barely a week late for International Talk Like A Pirate Day.  Arrrr….that […]
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Something for the weekend: Angel Olsen & Sturgill Simpson “Big Time”

September 23, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it for us from another week dear reader, and we leave you with a new version of a song we featured here on AUK a few months back from the wonderful Angel Olsen. It’s […]
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Morton Valence “Summertime In London” – but, was it this Summer?

September 23, 2022 Jonathan Aird 1
Having reached the Autumn Equinox (an event to be celebrated now by not just one, but a fine pair of albums from this guy) it may seem strange to be featuring a Summery song.  And it […]
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Halley Neal “Love Is Different” – blissfully in love

September 23, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Taken from the new album ‘Beautiful & Blue‘, Halley Neal’s song is a blissful evocation of a love that is total; “if I woke up tomorrow and you were gone and I didn’t know why”  she […]
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Eric And The Soo “Moneytown” – Working for The Man

September 22, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Canada’s Eric and the Soo return with a new single looking at the perennial problem of being a cog in the machine.   There’s work, and there’s bills and there’s chasing your tail and all the while […]

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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 5
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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  • Anthony: Very sad news. Beautiful choice of song to pay tribute to them.
  • Morag (Scary Biscuits): Heartbroken at this news (and still trying to process it), but such a beautiful tribute to them both, and perfect…
  • John Jenkins: Very sad news - My condolences to the families and AUK friends - xx

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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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Peaceful Faces “Doin’ It Wrong” – on a daily basis

June 18, 2025 0
Peaceful Faces – the performance moniker of multi-instrumentalist singer-songwriter Tree Palmedo, who has also worked with Fleet Foxes as a trumpeter.   Here, on a song from Peaceful Faces’ recently released third album “Without a Single Fight“, […]
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Slaid Cleaves, Hitchin Folk Club, Hitchin, 8th October 2017

November 6, 2017 0
A welcome return of the American troubadour to the Hitchin Folk Club for the last night of his UK tour – although he still had several weeks in Europe and the USA to go before he […]
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New Isbell live album on the way

June 12, 2018 0
Jason Isbell hits the UK next week for an appearance at the Black Deer Festival down in Kent and if you can’t make it there in person, the next best thing is listening from the comfort […]

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