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Live Review: 2022 UK Americana Awards Launch Show – Omeara, London, 16 November 2021

November 22, 2021 Lyndon Bolton 0

Introducing the Americana Music Association UK 2022 Nominations and Awards at a well-attended Omeara in London, Stevie Smith, AMA-UK’s CEO, reminded her audience that a year ago she had opened the proceedings from a shed in […]

Interview: Americana UK favourite Robert Vincent reflects on his recent multiple awards

March 3, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

Americana UK favourite Robert Vincent on a UK view of americana and his appreciation of his UK fans. Robert Vincent is a great favourite of Americana UK, and if anyone had any doubts about this statement […]

Festival Review: AmericanaFest 2021, 26th-28th January 2021

February 5, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

The conference part of the Americana Festival had had to be shelved for the year, but nothing, not even a global pandemic, could prevent the AmericanFest showcase nights and award ceremony from going ahead. Moving on-line […]

What is Americana? – Lady Neade and Carmen Phelan

January 28, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

We’re still digging into this joint quest with Country In The UK to pose the question to a few UK acts in the week that the Americana Music Association UK hosts its annual festival and awards […]

What is Americana? – Our Man in the Field

January 27, 2021 Paul Kerr 2

Second day of our hook up with Country In The UK to pose this question to a few UK acts in the week that the Americana Music Association UK hosts its annual festival and awards ceremony, […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Features

More People Really Should Know About: Charlie Worsham

February 4, 2026 0

Dextrous of hand and sunny of disposition, Charlie Worsham, is a musician’s musician. In 2022 he was the Academy of Country Music’s Acoustic Guitar Player of the Year followed a year later by his nomination as […]

Videos

Video: Bird “The Film”

October 21, 2025 0

The new single from Bird, the musical moniker of Janie Price, explores themes of loss, heartbreak and lingering memories as a relationship unravels. ‘The Film’ opens with moody guitar before Bird delivers her compelling, hypnotic vocals. […]

Tracks

Songs for the apocalypse: The Handsome Family “So Much Wine”

January 16, 2020 0

The Handsomes are one of those bands that feel so synonymous with what the americana genre means to me I feel they should be on the front of textbooks, with that rich combination of melody, atmosphere […]

Live Review: 2022 UK Americana Awards Launch Show – Omeara, London, 16 November 2021

Interview: Americana UK favourite Robert Vincent reflects on his recent multiple awards

Festival Review: AmericanaFest 2021, 26th-28th January 2021

What is Americana? – Lady Neade and Carmen Phelan

What is Americana? – Our Man in the Field

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”