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Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking

July 17, 2026 Jonathan Aird 2
We’ve been lucky enough here at Americana UK to have been aware of Anna Tivel and her astonishing songwriting pretty much from her emergence into the folk/singer-songwriter/americana combined genres. We haven’t been shy with our praise […]
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Album Reviews

Alela Diane “Who’s Keeping Time?”

May 7, 2026 Andrew Raw 1
Collaboration brings a beautiful folk album with words of love. This is Alela Diane’s seventh album, and the story behind it starts with the death at the age of eighty-three of her great friend Michael Hurley. […]
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Anna Tivel “Memphis” – well, everything is going to be so easy now…

January 14, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
We told you back in December about Anna Tivel’s B-Side companion to the acclaimed album “Animal Poem“, and we’ve mentioned a few times that we collectively think Anna Tivel is just fab, fab, fab. That last […]
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Americana UK’s top 20 albums of 2025: 20-11

December 19, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
So we have reached the end of another year here at AUK and over the last few weeks we as a group of writers have been locked in a dark room until we could reach a […]
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Video Review of the Year 2025

December 17, 2025 Andrew Frolish 2
Well, another year has flown by and will soon be consigned to history’s waste bin. It was a year of monstrous tariffs and volatile markets, of small boats and protests outside hotels, of ongoing, heartbreaking conflicts […]

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Billy Bragg & Wilco’s “Mermaid Avenue” project returns with expanded “The Complete Sessions”

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Billy Bragg & Wilco’s “Mermaid Avenue” project returns with expanded “The Complete Sessions”

October 12, 2026 0
Nearly thirty years after Billy Bragg and Wilco first came together to give voice to a collection of previously unheard Woody Guthrie lyrics, Craft Recordings will release Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions on 11th December 2026, […]
Album Reviews

Afton Wolfe and The Snake Hunters “Live from the Fallout Shelter”

October 12, 2026 0
A raw, live recording with all the in-the-moment feel of the best performances. Recorded at the Fallout Shelter venue in Norwood, Massachusetts, there is no denying the intensity of the live performance from Wolfe and his […]
Chris Stapleton at Merrieather Post Pavilion August 2019
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For The Sake Of The Song: Chris Stapleton “Traveller”

October 12, 2026 0
Our esteemed editor has labelled Chris Stapleton as the Marmite of artists for the writers here at Americana UK. It may be that our readers likewise fall into two camps and it took me a while […]

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  • Afton Wolfe and The Snake Hunters “Live from the Fallout Shelter”
  • For The Sake Of The Song: Chris Stapleton “Traveller”
  • Jonathan Something “One More Lonesome Cowboy Song”
  • Live Review: Robert Jon and the Wreck, The Junction, Cambridge – 2nd October 2026
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
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”

September 29, 2026 2
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”

September 15, 2026 0
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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Video Premiere: Steve Wallis “The Wolf” (feat. Youka Snell)

August 8, 2022 0
Australian singer-songwriter Steve Wallis, now based in France, is known for his pure voice, accomplished song-craft and finely finger-picked guitar.  On his latest single, ‘The Wolf’, all of these elements are in evidence.  We are pleased […]
Interviews

Interview: Jack O’Hara on how Eggs Over Easy accidentally helped punk to develop

July 15, 2021 2
How a borrowed PA, off-brand guitars and a real piano created a new old sound. Normally, Americana UK interviews artists who are promoting an album, either of new material or a career retrospective, and in pre-COVID […]
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Track Premiere: Katie Boeck “Calico (Lonely Love)”

March 29, 2023 0
Katie Boeck has had one of those musical careers that get called “varied”, indicating that she has taken many paths over the years – some of them more fruitful than others but all going to form […]

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