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Taylor James Donskey “Gimme Some Time” – have we run out ?

March 7, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
This is a strange one, as Minneapolis singer songwriter Taylor James Donskey wrote this song a a tribute to something that happened getting on for half a decade ago.  What were you doing in 2020?  He […]
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Brown Horse “Dog Rose” – looking back with mixed feelings

March 6, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Norfolk’s (and that’s Norfolk UK folks!) happening Brown Horse will release their second album ‘All The Right Weaknesses” which acts as a second volume of their sprawling fuzzy Americana from the cosmic and rocking end of […]
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Track Premiere: Rachel McIntyre Smith “The Attic”

March 5, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
In ‘The Attic‘ Rachel McIntyre Smith presents as not a fan of decluttering, of holding things up and determining whether they bring joy.  Because objects can also be the repository of memories and connected thoughts, they […]
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Craig Finn “Bethany” – hey girl, whatcha say?

March 4, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Craig Finn’s latest solo album ‘Always Been‘ has benefitted from the assistance of The War On Drugs’ Adam Granduciel as producer and as the provider of guitar solos as on today’s song ‘Bethany‘.  It’s a huge […]
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Icarus Phoenix “Poor Sad Indie Thing” – touching the beautiful sad thoughts

March 4, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Ah, Icarus Phoenix – Drew Danburry is like the musical Juggernaut, an unstoppable force pushing through the world, only in this case not crushing down but lifting up – or, at the least, consoling.  ‘Poor Sad […]

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“The spirit of Americana UK” – our writing team remembers Paul Kerr

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It’s been a sad time for us here in the AUK community with the loss of two of our writers in such a short period of time, and the loss of our Live Reviews Editor for […]
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The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Fred Arnold

October 8, 2026 0
It’s the third in the new Feature, seeking out the best americana album by a UK artist, and Fred Arnold throws his hat in the ring this week What a challenge is this? – as a […]
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Bill Scorzari “Sidereal Days (Day 2)”

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Part two of Bill Scorzari’s double-album project has him weaving from love lost to love kept and on the go. Bill Scorzari is a former New York trial lawyer with a Walt Whitman beard that extends […]

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  • The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Fred Arnold
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  • Live Review: The Annie Keating Band + The Dreaming Spires, Little Rabbit Barn, Ardleigh, Colchester – 2nd October 2026
  • The Brothers Gillespie “Kingfisher”
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

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The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

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Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

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If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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The Brookses “Lucky Charm” (Independent, 2019)

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‘Lucky Charm’ is the debut LP from Atlanta-based father-daughter folk duo The Brookses and a fine introduction it is too. Dad Jim is a veteran of the Atlanta music scene and he is joined here by daughter Meg, and […]
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Clive Gregson & Liz Simcock “Underwater Dancing” (Gregsongs, 2017)

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Clive Gregson’s musical pedigree – not only as the founder in 1975 of his band, Any Trouble, and his work with Richard Thompson, but also in the partnership he forged with Christine Collister over five albums […]
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Uni Boys “Uni Boys”

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Power pop déjà vu, delivered with infectious youthful exuberance. Forty years ago, New Musical Express journalist David Quantick suggested that pop culture was becoming increasingly self-referential, to the point of exhaustion, ultimately predicting that “pop would […]

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