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

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Van Darien “Twisted Metal” – Listen

April 17, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Taken from the new album ‘Levee’, which was released last Friday, ‘Twisted Metal‘ is a tense and haunted song of destructive love which has Van Darien singing that she “can’t get enough of your wicked love“.  […]
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Songs for the apocalypse: Jay Farrar “Station to Station”

April 16, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
Being an americana site we have to mention our own version of the Oasis vs Blur war, Son Volt vs Wilco (admittedly not quite the same war as Oasis and Blur were never in the same […]
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Evening Hymns “I Can Only Be Good” – Listen

April 16, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Evening Hymns is one of the musical projects of Canadian Jonas Bonnetta, and today’s featured song is the first new music under this name since 2015’s ‘Quiet Energies‘.   It’s a  song that enumerates all the reasons […]
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Ryan Langdon “Buck Wild” – Listen

April 15, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Don’t be fooled by that banjo opening, this is a wild one, a buck wild one.  Sounding like the theme tune for the day the bars get opened again Ryan Langdon leaves no room for misunderstanding […]
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Track Premiere: Woods End “Rowan Road”

April 15, 2020 Jonathan Aird 1
There’s a pensive mood to this new song from Sweden’s Woods End, with a ratcheting up of the anxious tension as the song progresses with the death-watch beetle knock of the percussion.  As you’d expect by […]

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CR & The White Lights “My Old Self”

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Live Review: State Fayre Festival, Hylands Park, Chelmsford – 26th-28th June 2026

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Ferris & Sylvester “Jealous” – go green, my hulk

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Video: Pokey LaFarge “The Thing” – I can’t get no satisfaction

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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

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CR & The White Lights “My Old Self”

July 8, 2026 0
Highly accomplished album for fans of Wilco and the like. You have to hand it to Chris “CR” Gennone when it comes to naming his bands; consistency is at the fore. He loves the moniker CR […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: State Fayre Festival, Hylands Park, Chelmsford – 26th-28th June 2026

July 8, 2026 0
State Fayre arrived in Essex beneath blazing sunshine and cloudless skies, three days of unrelenting heat that somehow seemed perfectly suited to a festival built around americana, country, roots and classic rock. From the moment the […]
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Ferris & Sylvester “Jealous” – go green, my hulk

July 8, 2026 0
What’s this then, Issy Ferris is pining to inspire jealousy? That does seem to be the main thrust of the latest single from the latest album, It’s A Joy To Be Alive, set to be released […]

  • CR & The White Lights “My Old Self”
  • Live Review: State Fayre Festival, Hylands Park, Chelmsford – 26th-28th June 2026
  • Ferris & Sylvester “Jealous” – go green, my hulk
  • Video: Pokey LaFarge “The Thing” – I can’t get no satisfaction
  • Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations
  • George Mann and Si Kahn “Mayday!”
  • JP Harris is “Shaving A Dead Man” with his new album
  • More People Really Should Know About: Charm Of Finches
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
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Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3
Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]
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Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0
It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]

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Steve Martin & The Steep Canyon Rangers “Caroline” – Listen

August 2, 2017 0
Steve Martin – officially the world’s coolest banjo player and the only one to sponsor a major annual Banjo music prize whilst also holding down other day jobs such as acting, writing books and collecting modern […]
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Jason Tyler Burton “High Road To Harlan” – Listen

August 7, 2019 0
Jason Tyler Burton’s having a busy Summer – he’s just played at Montana’s  Red Ants Pants Music Festival, and has a new album ‘Kentuckian‘ all ready to go on September 6th.  This here’s the first single […]
Book Reviews

Book Review: Pete Kennedy “Tone, Twang and Taste: A Guitar Memoir”

March 21, 2025 0
The whole things started with me saying “yes.” Pete Kennedy has written his memoir with the same plainspoken elegance as the records he has made with his musical partner and wife, Maura Kennedy. He spins some […]

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