Jonathan Wilson

Interview: Erin Rae on channelling Bobbie Gentry with Jonathan Wilson

March 8, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

How to create cinematic songs and still keep the vocals upfront and disproving the difficult third album cliché. There is an age-old cliché in the music business about the difficult third album where artists can struggle to […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana albums of the 21st Century: Keith Hargreaves

January 13, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 2

Second in the series and probably the most accurate… discuss! So, another list that requires soul searching and many hours of trawling through the collection. What’s not to like? Especially as the caveat that is always […]

Classic Americana Albums: Jonathan Wilson “Fanfare”

August 4, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 2

Revitalising the Laurel Canyon scene and spawning a classic all in one go. 2011’s ‘Gentle Spirit’ caught the attention with its guitar-driven, parched songs and stylings but in 2013 Wilson released what remains his most consistent […]

Interview: Joshua Radin, loneliness, longing, and working remotely

July 20, 2021 Tim Newby 0

How COVID has influenced an album that speaks to everyone. Singer/ songwriter Joshua Radin has become known for his introspective lyrics over his nearly two-decade and eight studio album long career. His latest album, ‘The Ghost […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 10

March 17, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

So we’re back and the kids are alright. The beauty of teaching teenagers is their innate ability to appear completely indifferent to giving a tuppenny toss about anything other than their tiny world view. So as […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Live Reviews

SummerTyne Americana Festival , Sage Gateshead, 19th – 21st July, 2019

July 29, 2019 0

Returning for its fourteenth year, one of the pioneers of the Americana festival scene continues its very relaxed mix of fun and music. When it started, the question was, “What is Americana?” but nowadays it is […]

Album Reviews

The Sadies “Colder Streams”

July 15, 2022 0

Long awaited 11th studio album from the respected Toronto quartet. The unexpected passing of band co-founder Dallas Good in February ensures that this fine album from The Sadies will stand as a remarkable epitaph to his […]

Features

Here are the results of 2019’s Americana UK readers poll!

December 20, 2019 1

So here we are again. If the word “poll” is still making you break out in cold sweats, this will hopefully be cathartic before the year is out. We should have actually started counting the number […]

Interview: Erin Rae on channelling Bobbie Gentry with Jonathan Wilson

AUK’s Top 10 Americana albums of the 21st Century: Keith Hargreaves

Classic Americana Albums: Jonathan Wilson “Fanfare”

Interview: Joshua Radin, loneliness, longing, and working remotely

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 10

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”