Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • Fiction
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ September 18, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Be With You Tonight” Videos
  • [ September 18, 2026 ] Benjamin Tod “Country is Dead” Album Reviews
  • [ September 18, 2026 ] Live Review: Buddy Miller, Ryman Auditorium , Nashville – 13th September 2026 Live Reviews
  • [ September 18, 2026 ] Classic Clip: Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas “The Boxer”— Library of Congress, Washington, 2007 Classic Clips
  • [ September 18, 2026 ] The Dreaming Spires and Annie Keating join forces for single and live dates News
HomeAmy Speace

Amy Speace

Tracks

Mince Pie Mondays – are these vegan?

December 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1
What’s going on?  Isn’t Mince Pie Mondays a bit like Solstice Songs Thursdays, a last-minute attempt to use up the late-arriving seasonal songs so no one feels like the child that Santa forgot?  A sort of […]
artwork for Amy Speace album "The American Dream"
Album Reviews

Amy Speace “The American Dream”

October 29, 2024 Chas Lacey 1
Songs of innocence and experience form a poetic musical memoir. Amy Speace will be familiar to many as the winner of the UK Americana Music Association’s 2020 International Song of the Year Award for ‘Me and […]
Tracks

Amy Speace “Where Did You Go” – I thought I knew you

September 25, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
You don’t need to be Sherlock Holmes to decipher the topic of this latest single from Amy Speace’s new album ‘The American Dream‘ which is released on 18th October.  Amy gives a concise background to the […]
artwork for Amy Speace EP "Same Old Storm"
Features

For The Sake Of The Song: Amy Speace “The Sea & The Shore”

May 28, 2024 Graeme Tait 2
“Amy Speace is on a roll. Each new release has brought an expansion of her voice and art, and she has reached the level of absolute mastery. Folk music doesn’t get any better than this”. Sadly […]
News

Preview: Ben Glover to release “And The Sun Breaks Through The Sky” later this month

April 4, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Ben Glover, the Northern Irish singer-songwriter, has announced the release of his latest album ‘And The Sun Breaks Through The Sky’ on 26th April. The record will be released on Goldrush Records. The album is Glover’s […]

Posts pagination

« 1 2 3 4 … 6 »

Support Americana UK!

Please help us support our running costs by making a one off donation – here.

our latest posts

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Be With You Tonight”

Videos
September 18, 2026 0

Benjamin Tod “Country is Dead”

Album Reviews
September 18, 2026 0
Buddy Miller live

Live Review: Buddy Miller, Ryman Auditorium , Nashville – 13th September 2026

Live Reviews
September 18, 2026 0
Krauss, Colvin and Douglas at Library of Congress 2007

Classic Clip: Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas “The Boxer”— Library of Congress, Washington, 2007

Classic Clips
September 18, 2026 1

The Dreaming Spires and Annie Keating join forces for single and live dates

News
September 18, 2026 0
Videos

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Be With You Tonight”

September 18, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Teenage Fanclub who will release their new album Do Not Dare To Dream on 9th October via […]
Album Reviews

Benjamin Tod “Country is Dead”

September 18, 2026 0
Journeyman comes full circle with an album of resonant covers that have been uniquely adapted throughout his career, tracing all the way back to his teenage days busking in Nashville. Benjamin Tod has been around the […]
Buddy Miller live
Live Reviews

Live Review: Buddy Miller, Ryman Auditorium , Nashville – 13th September 2026

September 18, 2026 0
Opening for The War and Treaty at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium, Buddy Miller explained how he came to crash the party and thanked the headliners and support Avery Sunshine for indulging him. Miller had a call from […]

  • Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Be With You Tonight”
  • Benjamin Tod “Country is Dead”
  • Live Review: Buddy Miller, Ryman Auditorium , Nashville – 13th September 2026
  • Classic Clip: Alison Krauss, Shawn Colvin, Jerry Douglas “The Boxer”— Library of Congress, Washington, 2007
  • The Dreaming Spires and Annie Keating join forces for single and live dates
  • Kyle Jenkins “Palace”
  • Dennis Ellsworth “Living”
  • Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Jack Browning and Blue Twisted Steel
  • Kyshona “We The People” – only people have the power
  • Video Premiere: RJ Chesney “Suzanne”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Paul: Fabulous. Been a Colvin fan her whole career and she holds her own in such august company. Not forgetting, of…
  • Wayne: Glad you got to see ESR on the Front Porch; such a great songwriter and storyteller. I made sure to…
  • Fiona: Hear hear! And thank God for music!

Latest interviews

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”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 […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

You may have missed…

Felicity and the Night
Tracks

Felicity and the Night “Wanted to Die” An Outback murder ballad.

March 1, 2024 0
Moody and murderous, the new song from Felicity and the Night evokes Tarantino and Tom Waits with a decidedly wicked twist.  ‘Wanted to Die’ is the first single from Felicity Jayn Heath under her new moniker, […]
News

Welcome to the new Americana UK

September 14, 2016 0
If you’re staring at the site thinking “whaaa.. happened?” then you can be forgiven, rewarded even, for being astute.  Americana UK has always been run as a non-commercial site with decreasing resources available to support what […]
News

The big guns come out for Tom Petty tribute “Petty Country”

April 11, 2024 7
Put on a Nudie shirt, grab a bottle of Bud and shout Yeeehaa! “Petty Country: A Country Music Celebration of Tom Petty”, a country tribute album curated by some of the late rocker’s closest friends and […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool