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
    • 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
  • Forum
  • 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
  • [ January 27, 2026 ] More People Really Should Know About: Austin Plaine Features
  • [ January 27, 2026 ] Suzie Ungerleider touring UK in April promoting deluxe version of latest album News
  • [ January 27, 2026 ] Sounds from beyond the Shed 219 “Annual Events” Sounds from the Shed
  • [ January 27, 2026 ] The Sheepdogs “Keep Out Of The Storm” – avoid the bad times Tracks
  • [ January 27, 2026 ] Video: Seán Feeny “Western Roads” – celebrating the diaspora Videos
HomeAustin Plaine

Austin Plaine

You tube screen grab of Austin Plaine
Features

More People Really Should Know About: Austin Plaine

January 27, 2026 Andy Short 0

The cover shot of Austin Plaine’s debut album shows a long, straight train track disappearing into the distance. Alluding to a long journey of discovery. A trip Plaine himself admits he never expected or even aspired […]

Donate to Americana UK

If you enjoy what you're reading and don't want to support us on a monthly basis, you can help us keep this site free from looking like one of those awful REACH sites by making a one off donation towards our running costs. We all do this in our spare time! THANK YOU.

our latest posts

You tube screen grab of Austin Plaine

More People Really Should Know About: Austin Plaine

Features
January 27, 2026 0
Suzie Ungerleider

Suzie Ungerleider touring UK in April promoting deluxe version of latest album

News
January 27, 2026 0

Sounds from beyond the Shed 219 “Annual Events”

Sounds from the Shed
January 27, 2026 0

The Sheepdogs “Keep Out Of The Storm” – avoid the bad times

Tracks
January 27, 2026 0

Video: Seán Feeny “Western Roads” – celebrating the diaspora

Videos
January 27, 2026 0

  • More People Really Should Know About: Austin Plaine
  • Suzie Ungerleider touring UK in April promoting deluxe version of latest album
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 219 “Annual Events”
  • The Sheepdogs “Keep Out Of The Storm” – avoid the bad times
  • Video: Seán Feeny “Western Roads” – celebrating the diaspora
  • For The Sake Of The Song: Eagles “How Long”
  • ER Jurken “To Be Continued”
  • Keeping music alive everywhere – MVT Annual Report launched
  • Live Review: John R. Miller + Jacob Coley, The Lodge @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester – 20th January 2026
  • Mt. Gribley “Moss On The Stone”
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
  • Jonathan Aird: I don't think we ignored that particular ridiculousness https://americana-uk.com/jason-isbell-id-like-this-mask-to-protect-me-from-van-morrison-watch https://americana-uk.com/van-morrison-joins-black-deer-2021-line-up But I guess he didn't sing about it on this…
  • Jonathan Aird: Hi David - thanks for the feedback, it's really appreciated. He is a wonderful songwriter, and enthralling live, it's an…
  • David Wedge: Hi Jonathan, Knowing very little about this guy, but trusting to your good taste, I went to see him play…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Bernie Leadon Too Late to Be Cool? No way!

January 21, 2026 0

When pigs can fly and cows jump over the moon …. when hell freezes over …. when an NBA player gets called for “palming the ball” …. when George Costanza picks up a check … when […]

Interviews

Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion

January 13, 2026 0

“Are you really real, do you feel the same thing that I do, girl, when I touch you, girl?” ~ Ricky Nelson According to iconic filmmaker Federico Fellini, “The visionary is the only true realist.” Before […]

Interviews

Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 1

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

You may have missed…

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 48

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 37

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

© Americana UK 2025, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool