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Video Interview: Blackberry Smoke’s Charlie Starr on “Be Right Here”

February 22, 2024 Martin Johnson 2
25 years as a band and still going strong. Americana UK interviews have proved popular with our readers and after long discussions at AIK Towers, we have decided to publish some future interviews on video to […]
artwork for Blackberry Smoke album "Be Right Here"
Album Reviews

Blackberry Smoke “Be Right Here”

February 14, 2024 Graeme Tait 2
Eighth studio album from Atlanta, Georgia’s americana rockers delivers a broader palette whilst still staying true to their bourbon-soaked southern roots. Having recorded their seventh album ‘You Hear Georgia’, during the most intense and restrictive period […]
Other stuff

Our new AUK supporters playlist is out today – win tickets to see Blackberry Smoke on tour

March 3, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters including new tracks by Iris DeMent, Ron Sexmith and Ruston Kelly among others – […]
Features

Classic Clips: Blackberry Smoke with Amanda Shires “You Got Lucky” – Live from Southern Ground, 2018

October 15, 2021 Rick Bayles 0
I remember being blown away when I first stumbled on this. Blackberry Smoke are a band I like but always find that little bit more interesting when they’re playing acoustically; team them with everyone’s (well, mine […]
News

Blackberry Smoke announce 2022 UK dates

June 3, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0
Atlanta, Georgia’s Blackberry Smoke have announced a string of UK shows, as part of a full European tour in early 2022, bringing their southern rockin’ sounds to these shores next February. Special guests on the tour […]

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

Tracks
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

Interviews
April 17, 2026 0

Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

Album Reviews
April 17, 2026 0

Book review: Richard Houghton “Iain Matthews: A People’s History”

Book Reviews
April 17, 2026 0

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Joseph Martone

AUK Mini-Gigs
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Tracks

Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

April 17, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
Interviews

Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
Album Reviews

Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

April 17, 2026 0
Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

  • Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”
  • Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming
  • Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”
  • Book review: Richard Houghton “Iain Matthews: A People’s History”
  • Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Joseph Martone
  • The Taproots “Comedy Of Fools”
  • Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring The Sheepdogs in conversation
  • Tony Rice’s 1977 self-titled album returns on vinyl and digital for his 75th birthday
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Interviews

Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
Interviews

Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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Tracks

Dr John “Sleeping Dogs Best Left Alone” – Great sounds from great man’s last album

June 13, 2022 0
Another song from the late and much lamented Dr John (one of the few of whom it can be truly said “there’ll never be another one like him”), taken from the last studio album he completed […]
Tracks

Fruit Bats “Let You People Down” – wrestling with my angst

August 13, 2025 0
I think we can just waffle along a bit and then let you, favoured reader, hit the play button.  Look – Eric D. Johnson is just one of our favourite Americana artists – an endless collaborator, […]
Tracks

Dusty Wright “Stare Into The Sun” – Just for fun

August 17, 2021 0
Look – if Dusty Wright told you to go jump in the lake would you do that?  Just because he turns up with a hooky earworm of a funky rock song doesn’t mean that you should […]

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