News
Calexico announce festive album “Seasonal Shift” – Listen
What a year to release your first Christmas album, even if it’s not actually a Christmas album as such – maybe it’s the best year of all given how much cheering up we all need (and […]
Calexico
Features
VERSIONS – “Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)”
Here we are again with “VERSIONS” – our look at the songs, the performers and the interpretations by performers of the songs. This time around Martin Johnson casts his eye over over ‘Senor (Tales of Yankee […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Compilations: Various Artists “Real: The Tom T. Hall Project” (Sire, 1998)
There are musical moments in your life that are of such significance that you will remember them forever. I recall buying my first record, going to my first gig and lying in bed as a 15-year-old […]
News
Yola nominated for GRAMMYs including best americana album
The full list of the nominations for the 62nd GRAMMY Awards have been announced and queen of country-soul Yola has received four nominations including Best New Artist and three nominations in the Roots category including Best […]
Previews
Calexico + Iron and Wine announce New Album ‘Years to Burn’ and Tour
A double header that will be of great interest to readers of Americana UK is a tour later this year when Joey Burns and John Convertino of Calexico hook up with Sam Bean of Iron and […]