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What should I do, Americana UK?

October 15, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

It was hardly a normal start to a musical enquiry such as we are accustomed (now) to address in this feature.  It was a very worried looking Willie Nelson who burst through the door to […]

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Album Reviews

Amy LaVere “Painting Blue” (Archer Records, 2020)

March 18, 2020 Sean Hannam 0

‘No Battle Hymn’, the striking first single from ‘Painting Blue’, the fifth album by Memphis-based Amy LaVere, is a timely anthem for a world in crisis. “No one’s ready to admit we may be out […]

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Amy LaVere ft. Will Sexton + Between The Vines, The Rose and Monkey, Manchester, 11th February 2020

February 24, 2020 Clint West 0

Amy LaVere and Will Sexton travelled down to Manchester from their previous night’s show in Glasgow, via Newcastle. The reason for this lengthy detour, they informed us, was to retrieve Will’s jacket which he had […]

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Americana Roots: Pixie & the Partygrass Boys

Americana Roots
December 18, 2020 0
Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US.  It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts [...]

Americana Roots: Grayson Capps

Americana Roots
December 4, 2020 1
American Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US.  It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts [...]
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Americana Roots: Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

November 20, 2020 0
  American Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US.  It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established [...]
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Americana Roots: Old Town Flood

October 16, 2020 0
  American Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US.  It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established [...]
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Americana Roots: Tenth Mountain Division

October 2, 2020 0
  Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US.  It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established [...]

Latest interviews

Interview: Dean Owens on hooking up with Calexico and beating the lockdown blues

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Emily Barker 2021

Interview: Emily Barker reflects on her 2020 success and AMA-UK nomination

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Interview : One Hundred Years Of Songitude with Peter Stampfel

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Interview: Anna Elizabeth Laube on celebrating her 15 year career

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Interview: Scottish singer-songwriter Kerri Watt on Neptune’s Daughter and recording in Austin

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Classic Americana Albums: Songs: Ohia “Magnolia Electric Co.”

Classic Americana Albums
January 27, 2021 1

‘Magnolia Electric Co.’ is the place to enter the world of Jason Molina. It draws together the essential elements of his music to the point that is most accessible, combining alt-country, low-fi and indie-rock seamlessly. […]

Loretta Lynn is Still Woman Enough

News
January 27, 2021 0

Loretta Lynn’s upcoming album, her fourth on the Legacy label, is a celebration of Women in Country Music.  It’s called ‘Still Woman Enough’ and it will be out on March 19th and features as guest […]

Gabriel Douglas “Darker Still”

Album Reviews
January 27, 2021 0

A cry from the dark. There is a certain bleakness to the solo albums of Gabriel Douglas but as the title suggests, his latest, ‘Darker Still’ plunges into deeper gloom. Douglas is best known as […]

A tribute to my beautiful lost mum, Pat Whitfield

Features
January 27, 2021 9

A week last Thursday the phone went at 7.45 in the morning, a call which I’ll never forget. My dad told me that in the middle of the night, my mum had completely out of […]

What is Americana? – Our Man in the Field

Features
January 27, 2021 1

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 […]

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