Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ November 10, 2025 ] Live Review: Patterson Hood, The Union Chapel, Islington, London – 27th October 2025 Live Reviews
  • [ November 10, 2025 ] Paperback Riders: Suzy Shaw and Mick Farren “Bomp! Saving the World One Record at a Time” Book Reviews
  • [ November 10, 2025 ] The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Steve Hewitt Features
  • [ November 10, 2025 ] Anniversary Cheers: Tony Joe White’s “The Real Thang” celebrates 45 years Features
  • [ November 10, 2025 ] Robin Adams “The Beggar” Album Reviews
HomeGrant Lee Philips

Grant Lee Philips

Grant Lee Phillips
News

New Grant-Lee Phillips album due early autumn, announces UK/EU tour dates

June 30, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Nashville-based singer, songwriter, and painter Grant-Lee Phillips has announced the release of “In the Hour of Dust”, his 12th solo album, on 5th September 2025 via Yep Roc Records. The self-produced album finds Phillips in introspective […]

News

Preview: Celtic Connections 2023 kicks off this week celebrating its 30th year

January 16, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Celtic Connections, Glasgow’s annual folk and roots music festival, opens its doors this Thursday, 19th January, for three weeks of concerts and events. It’s the first full-fledged festival since pandemic restrictions were ended. The festival moved […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic American Albums: Grant Lee Buffalo “Fuzzy”

July 13, 2022 Paul Gibson 2

By 1993 grunge had reached its omnipresent, powerful, destructive peak. The huge success of Nirvana, Pearl Jam and Soundgarden allowed a superfluity of menial chancers toting flannel shirts and pawnshop guitars to sneak in via the […]

Album Reviews

Grant Lee Phillips “All That You Can Dream”

June 27, 2022 Paul Kerr 0

Grant Lee Phillips tries to find some sense in a world turned upside down Given that life is getting back to something like normality, one would expect the wave of so-called “lockdown” albums to gradually subside […]

News

Grant Lee Philips announces new album – new single out now

February 25, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Grant-Lee Philips, of Grant-Lee Buffalo, has announced his latest album, ‘All That You Can Dream‘ will be released on May 20th on Yep Roc. This, his 11th album, comes soon after 2020 album ‘Lightning, Show us […]

Donate to Americana UK

If you enjoy what you're reading and don't want to support us on a monthly basis, you can help us keep this site free from looking like one of those awful REACH sites by making a one off donation towards our running costs. We all do this in our spare time! THANK YOU.

our latest posts

Live Review: Patterson Hood, The Union Chapel, Islington, London – 27th October 2025

Live Reviews
November 10, 2025 0

Paperback Riders: Suzy Shaw and Mick Farren “Bomp! Saving the World One Record at a Time”

Book Reviews
November 10, 2025 0
artwork Steve Hewitt Twang Factor

The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Steve Hewitt

Features
November 10, 2025 0
Tony Jow White 25 April 2011

Anniversary Cheers: Tony Joe White’s “The Real Thang” celebrates 45 years

Features
November 10, 2025 0
Album cover artwork for Robin Adams "The Beggar"

Robin Adams “The Beggar”

Album Reviews
November 10, 2025 0

  • Live Review: Patterson Hood, The Union Chapel, Islington, London – 27th October 2025
  • Paperback Riders: Suzy Shaw and Mick Farren “Bomp! Saving the World One Record at a Time”
  • The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Steve Hewitt
  • Anniversary Cheers: Tony Joe White’s “The Real Thang” celebrates 45 years
  • Robin Adams “The Beggar”
  • Live Review: Take Root Festival 2025, De Oosterpoort Groningen – 1st November 2025
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 207 “Karma”
  • Tyler Ramsey and Carl Broemel “Sail Away” – the loser now will later be first
  • Video Premiere: The Boy The Earth Sings To “Too Late or Too Soon”
  • Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “Dustland”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Mark Whitfield: You should look up "Joel Roberts" Alan, another fantastic song!
  • Ralph Ownby: Mamdani is "good news", huh? SMH. What is wrong with you, guy?
  • FredArnold: Thanks, Ray. Glad you enjoyed the list. Sad old git here too!! The Lucinda track meant so much to me…

Latest interviews

artwork for John Carter Cash interview
Interviews

Interview: Talking New Music, Producing GRAMMY-Winning Albums, Family and Legacy with John Carter Cash

November 3, 2025 0

John Carter Cash has enjoyed a remarkable career in the music industry. Winning multiple GRAMMY awards for his work as a producer, he has collaborated with a succession of iconic artists, from John Prine to Emmylou […]

artwork james mcmurtry interview
Interviews

Interview: James McMurtry discusses creativity, cancer companies and latest album The Black Dog and the Wandering Boy

October 23, 2025 3

No one could ever accuse James McMurtry of being fanciful. After all, the characters in his songs invariably are edged with such direct, keen-eyed realism, it seems like they’ve walked straight out of the diner or […]

artwork Ashley Monroe interview
Interviews

Interview: Ashley Monroe succeeded through hard work and sacrifice

October 15, 2025 0

When you learn that Ashley Monroe was once part of a country supergroup – Pistol Annies with Miranda Lambert and Angaleena Presley – you figure right away she must be some kind of urban cowgirl, a […]

You may have missed…

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 48

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 37

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

© Americana UK 2025, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool