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  • [ August 21, 2026 ] Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015 Features
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The Gina Furtado Project “I Hope You Have A Good Life” (Independent, 2019)

October 9, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
You may already know Gina Furtado as Gina Clowes, banjo player for Chris Jones & The Night Drivers – and even a cursory listen to ‘I Hope You Have a Good Life‘ will explain why she […]

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Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

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LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”

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Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”

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Brothers Comatose “High Hopes” – wishing for well

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Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

August 21, 2026 0
Michael Hurley died last year, and wasn’t it starting to look like he wasn’t the dying kind? Every now and then someone goes, and it’s only then that you realise what you’d been hoping for: that […]
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LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”

August 21, 2026 0
On Elephant Hill is the debut album from Big Trouble, the Los Angeles-based project led by Justin Kohlberg (Moonrun) and Daniel Talamantes and it’s scheduled for release on the 18th of September on Royal Oakie Records. […]
Album artwork for Devyn Brinsfield's album "Dreamers and Losers"
Album Reviews

Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”

August 21, 2026 0
Proper country, raw and honest and raucous. Devyn Brinsfield is one of those characters with a backstory that you would dismiss as being unbelievable if you didn’t know better. Still employed as a school bus driver […]

  • Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015
  • LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”
  • Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Mike Scott of The Waterboys
  • Brothers Comatose “High Hopes” – wishing for well
  • Video: Elanor Moss “Fixer” – a doorway into healing
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  • Preview: The Long Road Festival of Country, Americana and Roots, 27th-30th August Stanford Hall Leicestershire
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Interview: Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester on why “It’s A Joy To Be Alive”

August 19, 2026 0
One thing everyone quickly learns as they get older is that time waits for no one, and that life continues its unstoppable flow forward. Americana UK has followed Ferris & Sylvester’s career since their first album, […]
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Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]
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Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]

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Video Premiere: Jeremy Dion “Lovin’ Our Friends”

April 11, 2025 0
Here’s an infectiously catchy song that will make you smile.  Folk therapist Jeremy Dion’s latest single, “Lovin’ Our Friends”, drives along on rhythmic guitar with Dion delivering a smooth, engaging vocal melody.  On the recording of […]
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Video: Margo Price “Letting Me Down”

June 16, 2020 0
There are very few who can sing and craft a song like Margo Price.  When Price sings: “Everybody’s lonely, oh babe, just look around,” it feels perfect for the strange times we’re living in.   To […]
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Video: Great Lake Swimmers “Promise of Spring”

September 27, 2023 0
Great Lake Swimmers are about to release a deluxe version of their recent, well-received album ‘Uncertain Country’.  The new edition, due to drop on 29th September 2023, will feature acoustic versions of six of the album […]

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