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

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Brendan & the Strangest Ways “We Can Beat Mercury” – Listen

March 11, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
As part of his landmark series ‘Cosmos‘ the great Carl Sagan made a characteristically softly spoken and reasoned analysis of astrology, and found it was bunkum wrapped up in hokum.  No doubt he’d approve of Brenden […]
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Nadia Reid “Oh Canada” – Listen

March 10, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
New Zealand’s Nadia Reid has a new album called ‘Out Of My Province‘, which emerged on Spacebomb Records last Friday.  It features musings on travel and, on  ‘Oh Canada‘ also embraces Reid’s love of Canadian artists […]
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Track Premiere: Tai Shan “Wishing You Were Here”

March 9, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Tai Shan is a singer-songwriter who’s hard to pin down to a single musical genre – her stories want to expand out of a folk or rock constraint in order to pull in soulful elements and […]
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Palomino Kings “Living In The Dark” – Listen

March 6, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
The latest single from the Palomino Kings takes some cues from Daniel Lanois – with switches in sonic intensity that happen at the drop of a drumstick, moving from an evocative ache to an earsplitting surge […]
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Track Premiere: KaiL Baxley “Stump Liquor”

March 5, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
KaiL Baxley has one of those incredible back stories that really are hard to believe.   From having dance offs with James Brown,  to being an aspiring US Olympic boxing team member who lost his way on […]

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Matthew Payne “Better Times”

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Old Crow Medicine Show “My Side Of The Mountain” – living in the past?

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Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair’s Indie Hourzz session

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Joshua Burnside “It’s Not Going To Be Okay”

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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?

April 27, 2026 0
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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  • Old Crow Medicine Show “My Side Of The Mountain” – living in the past?
  • Video Premiere: Michael Weston King “The Golden Hour”
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  • Joshua Burnside “It’s Not Going To Be Okay”
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

April 23, 2026 0
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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Espanola “Espanola” (Independent, 2019)

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Espanola enter with a rock swagger from the very first moment of opener ‘Tricks of the Heart‘ – if the buzzing guitar hasn’t got you, and you can resist the drum beat just 17 seconds later […]
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Neil Young “Archives II: 1972 – 1976” (Reprise, 2020)

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Opening with Letter from ‘Nam – all solo acoustic and plaintive musing and closing with Cortez the Killer – a live incendiary explosion from the ‘Hammy Odeon’, the 10 discs in Archives II mine a Klondike […]
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Harvey Russell “Liquid Damage” (Independent, 2019)

September 23, 2019 0
If you listen to Harvey Russell’s new album ‘Liquid Damage’ on SoundCloud, then there are three hashtags: #Americana (we’ll come back to that), #honkytonk (lots of that on the album) and #alt-country. Well this album shouldn’t really […]

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