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
  • [ February 20, 2026 ] Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “California Wasted” Tracks
  • [ February 20, 2026 ] Live Review: Midlake + The Bretheren, Electric Ballroom, London – 6th February 2026 Live Reviews
  • [ February 20, 2026 ] Anniversary Cheers: Slim Dunlap’s “Every Little Word” is a reissue of his two solo albums 30 years on, with added extras Anniversary Cheers
  • [ February 20, 2026 ] Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: BIRD AUK Mini-Gigs
  • [ February 20, 2026 ] Classic Clips: Chris Whitley “Big Sky Country” – Live At Les Nuis L’Emission, 29th February 1992 Classic Clips
HomeBob Dylan

Bob Dylan

Interviews

Interview: Liz Thomson on Greenwich Village, Joan Baez and the young Dylan

November 10, 2025 Martin Johnson 0

The last year has seen Bob Dylan take the media by storm, something that started with the success of “A Complete Unknown”, a biopic that covered his career between 1961-1965, which was a critical and commercial […]

Cover art for Chris Gregory's book "Minstrel Boy, The Metamorphoses of Bob Dylan'
Book Reviews

Book Review: Chris Gregory “Minstrel Boy – The Metamorphosis Of Bob Dylan – Picasso Of Song, Volume Two”

October 31, 2025 Graeme Tait 0

Following on from his highly acclaimed 2021 book, “Determined To Stand – The Reinvention Of Bob Dylan“, which took a detailed evaluation of the legendary singer-songwriter’s career between the years of 1992 – 2020, author Chris […]

Album Reviews

Bob Dylan “Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window,1956-1963”

October 30, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Already a legend, the unwashed phenomenon, the original vagabond. It is surely no great coincidence that with the recent success of the film “A Complete Unknown” that we should find ourselves here, on the latest Bootleg […]

News

The Bootleg Series turns 18 and goes back to Bob Dylan’s source

September 19, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings, the catalogue division of Sony Music Entertainment, will release Bob Dylan’s ”Bootleg Series Volume 18: Through The Open Window, 1956-1963” on 31st October 2025. “Through The Open Window” tells the story […]

Tracks

Kronos Quartet “A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall” – marking a significant date

July 18, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

This recently released new version of Dylan’s classic song was issued to mark 80 years since 16th July 1945 when the world’s first nuclear bomb was detonated in New Mexico at 5:29 am.  Kronos Quartet produced […]

Posts pagination

« 1 2 3 … 40 »

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.

Recent Forum Posts

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: My Top 10 Favorite Albums of 2025

    I’ve been working on an expanded version of this list t...

    By Joe Nathan , 5 minutes ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: My Top 10 Favorite Albums of 2025

      Thanks but I purposely never use words like be...

    By Joe Nathan , 12 minutes ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: My Top 10 Favorite Albums of 2025

    I loved their previous album. I obviously love this one...

    By Joe Nathan , 14 minutes ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: My Top 10 Favorite Albums of 2025

    A compilation CD put Michael Hurley on my radar in the ...

    By Joe Nathan , 39 minutes ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Carson McCullers Reads From The Member of the Wedding a...

    By Joe Nathan , 50 minutes ago

  • RE: Jesse Jackson

    A very influential politician who never held high offic...

    By Martin Johnson , 8 hours ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    @rick-bayles Lane and Marriott were great song writers....

    By Martin Johnson , 14 hours ago

  • RE: Crap updates to good songs

    Have to say, I quite like that version of Brown Eyed Gi...

    By Rick Bayles , 15 hours ago

  • RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    I've just recently discovered 'Love, Death & Robots...

    By Rick Bayles , 15 hours ago

our latest posts

Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “California Wasted”

Tracks
February 20, 2026 1

Live Review: Midlake + The Bretheren, Electric Ballroom, London – 6th February 2026

Live Reviews
February 20, 2026 0
Slim Dunlap at The Mad Riplle Hootenanny 27thNovember 2007

Anniversary Cheers: Slim Dunlap’s “Every Little Word” is a reissue of his two solo albums 30 years on, with added extras

Anniversary Cheers
February 20, 2026 0

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: BIRD

AUK Mini-Gigs
February 20, 2026 0
Chris Whitley from a 1990s benefit concert in New York City

Classic Clips: Chris Whitley “Big Sky Country” – Live At Les Nuis L’Emission, 29th February 1992

Classic Clips
February 20, 2026 1

  • Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “California Wasted”
  • Live Review: Midlake + The Bretheren, Electric Ballroom, London – 6th February 2026
  • Anniversary Cheers: Slim Dunlap’s “Every Little Word” is a reissue of his two solo albums 30 years on, with added extras
  • Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: BIRD
  • Classic Clips: Chris Whitley “Big Sky Country” – Live At Les Nuis L’Emission, 29th February 1992
  • Rose’s Pawn Shop “American Seams”
  • Charley Crockett makes it a hat trick of albums in a year with “Age of the Ram”
  • The latest AUK podcast is available now featuring Katherine Priddy and Band of Heathens
  • Awolk “Into The Void” – sometimes the void looks back
  • Video: Tenderness “The Salt Flats” – living in the moment of gentle panic
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
  • Debbie: Well said! Loved Living With The Law when it came out and think it is a masterpiece. I have played…
  • Jay: Linda Ronstadt was the 1970s Queen of Rock.
  • Jonathan Hincks: Good call Mark. Added to my California playlist, in close proximity to California Sober (Billy Strings/Willie Nelson, or Post Malone/Chris…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

February 18, 2026 0

The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

Interviews

Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 2

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

You may have missed…

Otis Gibbs at SXSW 2009: Jovita's, Austin, TX, March 21, 2009 (Twangfest party) https://secure.flickr.com/photos/heather-c/3844773610/
Classic Clips

Classic Clip: Otis Gibbs “Ghosts Of Our Fathers” Live at KDHX radio station – 20th August 2014

July 21, 2023 0

This week’s classic clip is Otis Gibbs’ almost unbearably moving ‘Ghosts Of Our Fathers’ recorded live by KDHX radio station in St Louis. From his seventh album ‘Souvenirs Of A Misspent Youth’ released in 2014, Otis […]

News

2018 Americana Music Association Awards nominees revealed

May 16, 2018 0

News in from the AMA overnight (the US version) of their list of nominees for their honours and awards for 2018, and there’s good news for Mr Isbell, Margo Price and Brandi Carlile among others – […]

Album Reviews

Rob Leines “Headcase”

July 15, 2024 0

Strong Southern rock that has lost none of its edge in the recording studio. “Today I met the asphalt face to face / Spilt my brains all over that dirty place,” sings Rob Leines on ‘Headcase’, […]

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