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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Graeme Tait

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This new feature has now been running for approximately four months. During that time, I have simultaneously sympathised with my fellow writers at the magnitude of the challenge they have faced and marvelled at the array […]
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Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 5th-7th July 2024

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As promised, here’s part two of our Maverick Festival experience. Prior to coming over for the Maverick Festival, Jerry Joseph had played three shows in 24 hours at the High Sierra Festival in California, before driving […]
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Maverick Festival returns for 2024

March 28, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
The UK’s Maverick Festival has announced that the 2024 event will take place in the barns and fields of Easton Farm Park, Suffolk from Friday 5th July to Sunday 7th July. The festival which is in […]
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Live Review: Diana Jones, Twickfolk, Cabbage Patch, Twickenham – 16th April 2023

April 24, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0
As Diana Jones ended her performance to rapturous applause, the person next to your reviewer could not have summed it up better, “She gives you hope that the world might be a better place and she […]
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Diana Jones “Better Times Will Come – Reimagined & Remastered”

April 17, 2023 Paul Kerr 1
Diana Jones’ reissue of her 2009 classic scrubs up well and remains a powerful listen. How to improve on near perfection? That’s the conundrum posed when one is confronted by Diana Jones’ latest album, a reconfigured […]

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Sorcha Richardson set to release her third album in September

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Dublin-born singer-songwriter Sorcha Richardson has returned with the announcement of her new album Draw The Outline, out 11th September via Faction Records. Alongside the album, Richardson has also shared the single Illinois Again. With just two […]
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For The Sake Of The Song: Rod MacDonald “American Jerusalem”

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When I first started subscribing to Americana UK back in 2016, it was like having all my birthdays and Christmas come at once, as it supplied me with a daily diet of everything happening in the […]
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The Cousins Project “Child of the Hills”

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Artisanal roots music from Vermont’s Green Mountains. Kristina Stykos is a songwriter, musician, recording engineer and producer who has been a torchbearer for the music of the Green Mountain State since the 1980s. Her Pepperbox Studio […]

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Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

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Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]
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Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

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In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]
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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

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Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]

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Classic Americana Compilations: “Tulare Dust – A Songwriter’s Tribute to Merle Haggard” (Hightown Records, 1994)

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Merle Haggard has always been categorised as one of the great American Country Singers but, when it comes to songwriting, his talents are often overlooked. So, when a bunch of top Americana singers and songwriters came […]
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Ash Gray “Chicken Wire” (Labelship Records, 2018)

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Here is the second album from Ash Gray from  Austin, TX, now based in Sheffield, Yorkshire, the land of his forefathers. All the tracks here are written and produced by Gray himself. The title track demonstrates […]
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The Top 10 Americana Songs Of All Time: Chas Lacey

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The devil may have all the best tunes but six months and many songs down the line from this feature’s inaugural selection, the erudition and impeccable taste of my esteemed colleagues mean that many of the […]

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