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

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Track Premiere – The Tiger Lillies “Tombstone”

February 13, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Prague in the 1990’s, a time between the Velvet Revolution and the rise of mass stag night tourism – this is the era evoked by The Tiger Lillies on their new album ‘Devil’s Fairground‘ which is […]
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Track Premiere – Smith Allen “Pouring Rain”

February 12, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
If you like your music drenched in pedal steel and with a singer with a warm vocal, then you’re going to like Smith Allen.  If you like your backup vocals performed by Miranda Lee Richards then […]
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Joy Williams “Front Porch” – Listen

February 11, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Joy Williams has released a new single from her album ‘Front Porch‘, which will be released in May.  This song, the title cut, shows off her crystal clear flowing vocal to great effect over the gentlest […]
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Track Premiere – Roses & Cigarettes “Bones On The Ground”

February 8, 2019 Jonathan Aird 1
Roses & Cigarettes are a duo made up of singer Jenny Pagliaro and guitarist Angela Petrilli who hail from Los Angeles.  They are all set to release their second album ‘Echoes and Silence’ on the 22nd […]
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I’m With Her “Call My Name” – Listen

February 6, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Any band that consists of Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan is going to be worth listening to – but we all know that already.  What makes this particular gorgeously harmonising song tenderly beseeching a lover to […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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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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Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

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Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell, who is releasing her new album Shadow Child on 8th May 2026 via Outside Music, has announced a run of six UK headline shows as part of a wider UK and European […]
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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

April 21, 2026 0
Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

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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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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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Hailing from Durham in North Carolina ‘The Pinkerton Raid’ (great name!) produce an Indie/Americana sound based around the writing of the band’s frontman, Jesse James DeConto. This is their fourth full-length album and is based on […]
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Interview: Willy Vlautin talks Delines, Fontaine, Books, Movies and Ursula Le Guinn

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Willy Vlautin has a whole quiver full of arrows, which is lucky as he has many strings to his bow.  We talked with The Delines songwriter in a wide-ranging chat. As songwriter for Richmond Fontaine and […]
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My interest in music began at a very early age, influenced by absolutely nothing – i.e. there was no music in the home, my parents weren’t interested and, as I subsequently discovered, I had no voice […]

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