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Jim White and Marisa Anderson announce UK and Ireland tour dates

August 28, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Jim White and Marisa Anderson have announced UK and Ireland tour dates for September 2024, in support of their expansive new duo album “Swallowtail”. The collaboration between renowned drummer White and acclaimed guitarist Anderson is a […]

AUK’s Back Pages No.6

August 2, 2024 Paul Kerr 1

It’s the middle months of 2006 we revisit here. The shiny new website is pretty much unchanged as is the format of the CDs sent out to those Friends of Americana UK who subscribe. News wise […]

Interview: Ben De La Cour on “Sweet Anhedonia” and Jim White

February 6, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

How literature and heavy metal led to Kerrville and gothic americana. Ben De La Cour has been on a slow burn since leaving home at seventeen for various dead-end jobs before landing in Nashville in 2013 […]

Mama Lucky “Permanent Stranger”

October 31, 2023 Kimberly Bright 0

A dark and surreal outing for Southern Gothic sage Jim White as Mama Lucky, his long-neglected 2009 collaboration with Tucker Martine. Joined by a handful of friends in the studio, including singer Linda Delgado, Floridian singer-songwriter […]

Classic Americana Albums: Joe Henry “Trampoline”

September 22, 2021 David Cowling 4

If it wasn’t for this album, Joe Henry would be a minor footnote in any history of Americana that I might write, perhaps more memorable for being Madonna’s brother-in-law. His early records were serviceable and he […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 3

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”

September 21, 2026 0

“You told me goodbye, how was I to know/You didn’t mean goodbye, you meant please don’t let me go?” Well. It’s the age of nostalgia, so it feels just about right to reminisce about an old […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]

Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1

As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0

Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

Album Reviews

Pretty Lightning “Night Wobble”

February 21, 2025 0

Instrumental, atmospheric tales of the unexpected. Pretty Lightning are a German band formed back in 2007 by Christian Berhoff and Sebastian Haas. ‘Night Wobble’ is their sixth full-length album following the 2022 ‘Dust Moves’ and it […]

Features

For the Sake of the Song: John Hiatt “Have a Little Faith in Me”

August 5, 2024 2

For years, John Hiatt was in a category of his own. His own record company didn’t know where to place him. He is undoubtedly under Americana’s broad banner, but would you say he was country, blues […]

Tracks

Track premiere: Paul Tabachneck “New America” – Listen

August 22, 2017 0

Brooklyn singer songwriter Paul Tabachneck has been writing in his own words “relationshippy” music for a while now, but world events have turned his head to another subject. He told us: “One reason I always gave short […]