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Video Premiere: Icarus Phoenix “Different Languages”

March 6, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
We are delighted to premiere the latest single from Drew Danburry’s band Icarus Phoenix.  In ‘Different Languages’, Danburry’s thoughtful words feel heartfelt and profound: “Words can build and destroy but some building is destruction,” especially when delivered […]
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Videos

Video: Icarus Phoenix “Nostalgia for Arannis Morissette, the Half-Elf Bard”

February 29, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0
Icarus Phoenix tap artist Cat Palmer to star in their new video for ‘Nostalgia for Arannis Morissette, the Half-Elf Bard’.   As Drew Danburry’s track tells the tale of being inspired by other songwriters, taking on the […]
Tracks

Something for the weekend: For all the Girls “Caroline” featuring Icarus Phoenix

January 26, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another weekend dear reader. We are heading for our annual writers’ get together to (drum roll) Buxton this year so do come and say hello if you happen to be […]
Tracks

Something for the weekend: Icarus Phoenix “Gild (For J.W. Teller)”

March 25, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0
That’s it for another week from us dear reader and we leave you with a new track from the forthcoming third album from Drew Danburry’s Icarus Phoenix project ‘Sometimes Our Shadow Gets in the Way’. We’ve […]
Features

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor: My top 10 tracks of 2021

December 23, 2021 Mark Whitfield 1
Every year in recent times I seem to listen to fewer and fewer whole albums – it’s often a time issue, as creating the monthly supporters’ compilations along with trawling through dozens of submissions every week […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

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Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

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Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates

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All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December

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Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2
The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]
Album Reviews

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0
The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]
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Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

August 5, 2026 0
Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]

  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits
  • Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”
  • Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers
  • Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates
  • All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December
  • Live Review: Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes + Riley Catherall, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 25th July 2026
  • Clayton Denwood “Looking for a Road”
  • Ferris & Sylvester “The Game” – going back to the beginning
  • Video: Inland Isle “White Collar Breakdown” – a dark fantasy about AI
  • Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider
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  • Graeme Tait: Lol. Sorry, Alan, I knew as soon as I'd chosen to cover Tom Waits for this feature you'd be a…
  • Alan Peatfield: OK, Graeme - just one observation ... the obvious one. "As a songwriter he is right up there; on the…
  • Graeme Tait: Hi Alan. Glad you approve. It was an excellent gig.

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Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0
Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

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The Northern Belle “No Rush” – Listen

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The new single by the Norwegian septet The Northern Belle see’s the band’s sound expanded even further with the addition of vocals from Nordicana compatriots Siv Jakobsen and Louien.  It means that there’s just extra layers to the […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Ferris & Sylvester + Oli McCracken, Spiritual Bar, London – 27th May 2025

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Regular AUK readers will already be familiar with Ferris & Sylvester and their distinctive blend of blues, folk and Americana. Having won multiple awards, including UK Album Of The Year at the UK Americana Awards 2023 […]
Album Reviews

Thea Gilmore “The Counterweight” (Cooking Vinyl, 2017)

August 25, 2017 0
Thea Gilmore has been a song-writing heavyweight on the British circuit for a long time and has shown a knack for consistent quality and a down-to-earth music that fiddles with genre and tweaks the nose of expectation. Can […]

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