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

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Tift Merritt “Last Day I Knew What To Do”

July 28, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
We have a fine treat for you, dear readers, on this Monday morning – we’re sure you know that “Tambourine” is getting a reissue, but what you may not be aware of is that there are […]
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Something for the weekend: Fruit Bats “Creature from the Wild”

July 25, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a new song from the upcoming next album from Fruit Bats. In ‘Creature From The Wild’ singer-songwriter Eric D. Johnson muses […]
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Anna Tivel “White Goose” – lost, lost, never to return

July 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
‘White Goose‘ is a meditation on things that are gone and is shot through with regret.  Mistakes and regrets and not only for the tangible things “the ghost of everything we loved and everything we didn’t […]
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Freightliner “Up All Night” – we can certainly relate

July 24, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
There’s certainly something in the lyrics of the new single from Canadian band Freightliner that rings painfully true here at Americana UK Towers: “I’m up all night playing these songs/…/ ’til the dawn then I’m back […]
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Track Premiere: Stephen Jacques “Fragrant Flowers”

July 23, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Fragrant Flowers‘ is the opening cut of Stephen Jacques’ latest album “Pioneers and Fragrant Flowers”, which is a concept album about covering the 19th-century Western migration, frontier wagon train plight, gunfights, saloons, Native American reality, miscreants, […]

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Well that’s it for this week dear reader. Don’t forget to get your tickets for our 25 year anniversary event if you haven’t yet – all the details are here. It’d be remiss of us to […]
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Teddy Thompson “Never Be The Same”

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Guitar-based pop, done skilfully, with words reflecting life’s imperfections. Teddy Thompson, the son of British folk icons Richard and Linda Thompson, was born in the UK but now lives in Brooklyn. This is his tenth self-penned […]
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Americana Stories – Dean Owens “The Motel And The Highway”

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In March, we put out a request for short fiction written around the subject of americana. The first to answer our call was one of our favourite singer/songwriters, Dean Owens. He also appeared on our Podcast […]

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Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood

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Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]
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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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Video: Elles Bailey “Who’s That”

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It’s been an explosive start to 2023 for Elles Bailey, who picked up two awards at the recent Americana Music Association UK ceremony: UK Artist of the Year and UK Live Act of the Year.  She’s […]
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Zervas & Pepper “Endless Road Restless Nomad” (Zerodeo, 2019)

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Folk rock from South Wales, with a (press release-claimed) Laurel Canyon state of mind. As a consequence this record has a distinct 1970s feel; the rock is very soft, very easy listening, perhaps too easy – […]
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Six Parts Seven / Good Morning Valentine “Kissing Distance”

March 18, 2024 2
Widescreen Americana beauty. Six Parts Seven are a band from Ohio who have been known for their collaborative work, with artists such as Iron and Wine, Modest Mouse and the Black Keys. For the ‘Kissing Distance’ […]

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