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James Yorkston teams up with Swedish stars for “Songs For Nina and Johanna”

June 11, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Scottish singer-songwriter James Yorkston has announced his latest album, “Songs for Nina and Johanna”, will be released via Domino on 22nd August 2025. The album is his sixteenth on Domino and his third to be recorded […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 First Aid Kit Songs

May 15, 2025 Fiona Golden 4
As we certainly know at AUK, sometimes people far, far away from the United States naturally flourish in Americana. Anyone acquainted with the niche and wildly underrated subgenre of Scandifolk must know First Aid Kit. Practically […]
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Something for the weekend: First Aid Kit “Everybody’s Got to Learn”

July 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
That’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a previously unreleased track from the new expanded version of  Swedish indie-folksters First Aid Kit’s most recent album from 2022, this time […]
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Classic Clips: Conor Oberst, First Aid Kit and James Felice “Lua” Hardly Strictly Bluegrass, 6 October 2017

June 9, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0
One of the upsides of festivals is the opportunities presented for collaboration.  Hardly Strictly Bluegrass is a three-day festival held in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park on the first weekend in October.  For a number of […]
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Classic Clip: First Aid Kit “Emmylou” – Live at the Polar Music Awards, 2015

March 17, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0
Emmylou Harris was in Stockholm in 2015, as the latest recipient for the Polar Music Prize, instigated by Stig Anderson, manager and collaborator with ABBA. That alone was a high achievement, placing her in a pantheon […]

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year knees up featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and a whole load more americana, you can pick them […]
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Charley Crockett “Age of the Ram”

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Americana favourite delivers the final chapter of his adventurous Sagebrush Trilogy that concludes with the mythological and wide-ranging story of the ‘Outlaw’ Billy MacLane. Readers of Americana UK are likely to be very familiar with the […]
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Tift Merrit announces new album “Sugar”

April 10, 2026 1
Listen to the first single to be taken from it below. Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tift Merritt has announced Sugar, her first album in nearly a decade, due out June 26th via One Riot which is described as […]

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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
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Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

April 7, 2026 0
In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]
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Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

April 2, 2026 0
How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]

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Nahko “My Name Is Bear” (SideOneDummy Records, 2017)

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The bearable parts of this record are rendered unbearable by the spoken word interludes that are snippets of (a lack of) insight usually centred on smoking weed and trivia from his life as a touring musician […]
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Mary Scholz “Talk To Me” – come on, open up

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Los  Angeles based singer-songwriter Mary Scholz has recently released ‘Talk to Me,’ the first single from her upcoming album, ‘Begin Again’, which was produced by Jonathan Wilson.  It’s a song that takes a broader view of […]
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Afton Wolfe “The Harvest”

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Wolfe’s continues to perplex with his sophomore album of seven songs all written by his Father-in-Law. Afton Wolfe is a man of many hats having previously found employment in a varying array of professions, ranging from […]

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