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Anna Tivel “The Good Fight” – if this is all there is then this is what I wanted to do

May 18, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Anna Tivel, we will never cease to tell you, is one of the finest songwriters of her generation.  It can be that a lot of songs one hears are nice enough, they amuse for a few […]
Anna Tivel
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Anna Tivel “American Novella” – Drawing to a close

April 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Anna Tivel makes music that hits you hard – soft and quiet it may often be but the ideas are large, the emotions are bare, sometimes brutally so even within the tightly constrained words and the […]
Album Reviews

Last Year’s Man “Time Is A Sparrow”

January 3, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0
Textures of sound wrap a muse around the emotions. On listening to his collection of absorbing contemplation Tyler Fortier’s moniker undersells him. His ability to express his deepest thoughts with all their tales of what was, […]
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Video: Anna Tivel “The Dial”

September 8, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0
Twyla Tharpe get a new soundtrack to dance to in the video for Anna Tivel’s ‘The Dial’.   Gritty programmed percussion joins warbling rootsy guitars as Tivel sings about her experiences on the road after a long […]
Album Reviews

Anna Tivel “Outsiders”

August 10, 2022 Martin Johnson 1
A new album and a new record company mean Anna Tivel is ready to take her music to a larger audience. Pacific North West singer-songwriter Anna Tiivel shakes off the dust of the pandemic by seeking […]

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

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

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Jonathan Something “One More Lonesome Cowboy Song”

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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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  • 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

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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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Clubhouse Records turns 10 – listen to their Spotify playlist

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One of the UK’s best Americana labels Clubhouse Records, a constant friend here at AUK, turns 10 years old this year and the team there have each picked 10 of our favourite tracks from the Clubhouse […]
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