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Pump Up The Volume – A Year of Tracks

December 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, another year steams away down the Americana UK Tracks, and it’s therefore time to do the annual compare and contrast in which we find just which songs you enjoyed each month dear readers, and compare […]

Features

Jingle Bells Friday – Snow is falling… somewhere…

November 24, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Actually not so far away – there should be snow in Germany this weekend…not such a hotbed of Americana though (unless, of course, you know differently).  Anyway – this week we have another fine selection of […]

Interviews

Interview: Darling West’s Mari and Tor Egil Kreken discuss “Cosmos” and nordicana

June 20, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Norwegians love the banjo and bring a natural sense of melancholy to their music. Many people enjoyed the 2000 film ‘O Brother, Where Art Thou’, but in Norway, it also helped kickstarted the nordicana genre when […]

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Darling West “Cosmos”

May 2, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Norway’s Darling West look to Rumours era Mac for new album. Opening with the title track is always a signal of intent and Norwegian band Darling West lay down the template for this album from the […]

Tracks

Darling West “Cosmos” – drifting off into the universe

March 17, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

The awesome Darling West have a new album that will be released on Jansen Records on the 24th of March – it’s called ‘Cosmos’ and so, of course, this is the title track.  We’ve swooned often […]

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  • Something for the weekend: This Is Lorelei “SF & GG” – the spirit of Elliott Smith in two minutes
  • The Gordon Sharpe Americana UK Book Award 2025
  • Classic Clips: Josh Ritter “All Some Kind of Dream” – Paste Studios, New York, 2019
  • The Third Mind make a ‘Spellbindingly’ quick return
  • Lucky Came To Town “The River Knows My Name”
  • The latest Americana UK podcast is now live featuring Courtney Marie Andrews
  • The Corner Laughers “Rainbow Cardigan” – contains plausible dance moves
  • Video Premiere: KB Bayley “Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime”
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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 0

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 […]

Interviews

Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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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 […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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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

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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 […]

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