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Preview: Georgia’s Clover County plays first ever UK and Ireland tour dates in May

April 30, 2026 0

Emerging Georgia singer/songwriter Clover County, whose debut album, Finer Things, was released in September 2025 via her own label Undercover Lover Records in partnership with Thirty Tigers, has announced a short series of tour dates in […]

Paperback Riders: John Perry Barlow “Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times” and The Principles Of Adult Behavior

April 30, 2026 0

John Perry Barlow’s memoir Mother American Night: My Life in Crazy Times reads like an acid trip from the American counterculture, yet also carries an idealistic turn that comes from living through multiple revolutions. The book […]

Live Review: Eric Bibb + Janileigh Cohen, St. Leonard’s Church, Bridgnorth – 25th March 2026

April 30, 2026 0

You probably wouldn’t immediately think of St. Leonard’s Church in Bridgnorth as a likely venue if someone were to mention a roof-raising indie-folk and blues double bill. Yet on a storm-lashed March evening, the old sandstone […]

Vox Continental: April 2026

April 30, 2026 0

This month’s all about new music, with new singles from Sweden and Denmark and new albums from Norway and Finland. Plus, a French duo taking their music to the USA. We kick off this month’s offerings […]

GA-20 & Charlie Musselwhite “Crazy Love” – crazy ’bout my lovin’

April 30, 2026 0

Famously, we don’t really cover the Blues here at Americana UK, and equally famously, we do cover Charlie Musselwhite, whose distinctive sound fits in well amongst proto-americana contemporaries. Which is by way of explanation for today’s […]

Essentials
Essentials: The Top 10 Thea Gilmore Songs
Thea Gilmore is one of the most remarkable voices in contemporary British songwriting. Her work is often experimental, thrillingly so at times, and she moves effortlessly between genres without ever being defined by them. Elements [...]
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Jesse Malin
New Yorker Jesse Malin began his performing career in the New York hardcore band Heart Attack, before assuming the role of vocalist of glam punk band D Generation. Between 1994 and 1999 D Generation released [...]
Interviews
Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris
Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his [...]
Features
More People Really Should Know About: Blue Water Highway
Blue Water Highway is an Austin-based Americana/folk rock band. Their signature is considered songwriting across a variety of styles, but always melodic, with fantastic harmony singing. Musically timeless, there are elements of Laurel Canyon songwriting, [...]
AUK Mini-Gigs
Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Dan Bern
People used to call Dan Bern “the new Dylan” or sometimes “smarty pants.” There have been more than a few new Dylans over the years. Bern was not one of them. A pal of mine [...]

Video: Brown Horse “Comeback Loading” – dumb, ironic t-shirt slogans to something more real

April 30, 2026 0

In the video for Brown Horse’s latest single, the band is stranded in the tour van before they work together to tune up the van and get back on the road. It’s a light-hearted visual inspired […]

Jesse Malin at 7th Street Entry, Minneapolis 10th November 2019

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Jesse Malin

April 29, 2026 0

New Yorker Jesse Malin began his performing career in the New York hardcore band Heart Attack, before assuming the role of vocalist of glam punk band D Generation. Between 1994 and 1999 D Generation released three […]

Folk Tracks Roundup – April 2026

April 29, 2026 0

We’re heading towards the Summer now, May Day falls this week, and the obvious thing would be to offer you, valued reader, a swathe of music that touches on those themes of rebirth and the explosion […]

Rock legend Lenny Kaye to release debut solo album at 79

April 29, 2026 0

Lenny Kaye has announced his debut solo record, Goin’ Local, which will be out 17th July 2026 via Yep Roc Records. At 79, the punk pioneer and “godfather of garage rock” steps forward with a deeply […]

Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck “My Epitaph” – remember me this way

April 29, 2026 0

The Fiddle And The Drum is the new collaborative album from Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck, and My Epitaph is the latest single from it. Originally written and recorded by Appalachian folk artist Ola Belle Reed, […]

GA-20 & Charlie Musselwhite “Crazy Love” – crazy ’bout my lovin’
April 30, 2026 0
Famously, we don’t really cover the Blues here at Americana UK, and equally famously, we do cover Charlie Musselwhite, whose distinctive sound fits in well amongst proto-americana contemporaries. Which is by way of explanation for [...]
Video: Brown Horse “Comeback Loading” – dumb, ironic t-shirt slogans to something more real
April 30, 2026 0
In the video for Brown Horse’s latest single, the band is stranded in the tour van before they work together to tune up the van and get back on the road. It’s a light-hearted visual [...]
Folk Tracks Roundup – April 2026
April 29, 2026 0
We’re heading towards the Summer now, May Day falls this week, and the obvious thing would be to offer you, valued reader, a swathe of music that touches on those themes of rebirth and the [...]
Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck “My Epitaph” – remember me this way
April 29, 2026 0
The Fiddle And The Drum is the new collaborative album from Renée Fleming and Béla Fleck, and My Epitaph is the latest single from it. Originally written and recorded by Appalachian folk artist Ola Belle [...]
Video Premiere: Florence Dore “Twelve Great Minds (Department Meeting)”
April 29, 2026 0
The new single from Florence Dore is a rocking, insistent anthem for a problem that many of us will associate with: meetings at work that manage to be both boring and pointless. With Will Rigby’s [...]

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