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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: Simon D James “Dearest Lovely World”

February 16, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Brighton based singer-songwriter Simon D James has a global vision, and his debut single Dearest Lovely World was written whilst he was volunteering in the Calais refugee camps.  This experience led him to recognise that “regardless of […]
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Track Premier: Jesse Terry “Mr Blue Sky”

February 15, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Jesse Terry has a brand new album coming out, hot on the heels of last September’s ‘Stargazer’.  It’s an album of duets with female artists including: Dar Williams / Sarah Darling / Erin Rae/ Kim Richey […]
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Ryan Adams releases Valentine’s Day single online – Listen

February 14, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
Ryan Adams has a shot of V-Day love for the world this year with the release of a special Valentine’s Day single today. ‘Baby I Love You’ is exactly what it sounds like: a song to someone’s […]
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Bob Cheevers “Help Me With My Heart” – Listen

February 14, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Admittedly this is not a new song – but quite appropriate for Valentines Day.  Really we wanted Is It Ever Gonna Rain, but that wasn’t available.  Help Me with My Heart seemed a better second choice […]
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Shakey Graves “Kids These Days” – Listen

February 13, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
One line of wisdom of course is that they don’t.  Listen that is.  Trash.  The kids are all right.  Alejandro Rose-Garcia, aka Shakey Graves, won the award for Best Emerging Artist at the 2015 Americana Music Awards […]

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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”

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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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Fayen “Something To Look Back On”

April 21, 2026 0
Norwegian duo delivers a nordicana record filled with beautiful songs, expertly performed and arranged. Fayen is a Norwegian duo based in Trondheim, situated in central Norway, on the south shore of the third-largest of Norway’s fjords, Trondheimsfjorden […]

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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

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AUK’s Top 10 Americana albums of the 21st Century: Keith Hargreaves

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Nicole Atkins “Goodbye Rhonda Lee” (Single Lock Records, 2017)

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