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HomeGillian Welch

Gillian Welch

Gillain Wwelch @ Jazz Fest, New Orleans, 29 April 2007
Features

For the Sake of the Song: Gillian Welch “Everything Is Free”

November 24, 2025 Helen Jones 2
It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time in the early-00s when music piracy was the hot topic. At the turn of the millennium, Metallica member Lars Ulrich famously took the free file-sharing service […]
Features

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Richard Parkinson

November 20, 2025 Richard Parkinson 6
Every writer faced with distilling the entire history of music into the Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time is faced with a need to place some boundaries around the task in order to get some […]
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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Short

November 13, 2025 Andy Short 8
Asking someone to list an all-time top ten of anything can be difficult. It is a personal choice, and what one individual loves, others don’t care for. For this assignment, it is the “Top 10 Americana […]
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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Martin Johnson

October 2, 2025 Martin Johnson 18
Everybody loves a list, except perhaps the person whose job is to write it in the first place. Picking the top 10 songs in a genre that is known for the quality of its songwriting is […]
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Classic Clips: Dave Rawlings Machine “Method Acting/ Cortez The Killer” – Live From Here, 2018

March 14, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
In the beginning there was “A Prairie Home Companion” a live radio variety show presented by Garrison Keillor from the Fitzgerald Theatre in St Paul, Minnesota.  By 2016, Keillor was ready to hand over to a […]

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Sorcha Richardson set to release her third album in September

June 22, 2026 0
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”

June 22, 2026 1
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”

June 22, 2026 0
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

June 18, 2026 0
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

June 17, 2026 0
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, […]
Interviews

Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

June 11, 2026 2
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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GA-20 & Charlie Musselwhite “Crazy Love” – crazy ’bout my lovin’

April 30, 2026 0
Famously, we don’t really cover the Blues here at Americana UK, and equally famously, we do cover Charlie Musselwhite, whose distinctive sound fits in well amongst proto-americana contemporaries. Which is by way of explanation for today’s […]
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Tonight we ride! Tom Russell has UK dates

April 18, 2017 0
Yes, god damn it, Tom Russell will be returning to these fair shores so late in the Fall that we may as well just go ahead and call it a Winter tour.  As usual he’ll be […]
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Track Premiere: Arwen Lewis “Winter”

March 15, 2023 0
It’s worth Winter hanging on a little longer if it is going to gift us songs like this new release from Arwen Lewis.  It’s a slow and moody ballad of wanting enforced closeness, the kind that […]

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