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Flutes & Low “Lay Fallow”

March 18, 2026 0
Sparse, beautiful folk-influenced music shaped by winter, tragedy, and nature. Flutes & Low comprises Ben Pichler and Cambria Haen, who met in Duluth, north-eastern Minnesota. They took their name from the Gerard Manley Hopkins poem “Inversnaid”, […]
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NOCONA “How Do You Feel?” – pretty good, mostly, slight ache just there, but mustn’t grumble

March 18, 2026 0
Are you, good readers of Americana UK, ready for some music that isn’t Americana?  What?  What?  No, no, calm down, it’s not so bad.  NOCONA, the band from Los Angeles, have spent 12 years denying that […]
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Video: Foy Vance “We Almost Made It” – weary, confessional intimacy

March 18, 2026 0
Foy Vance has released another striking single, We Almost Made It, which aches with vulnerability. Hushed and delicate, the song unfolds in bittersweet tones and a beautifully fluent melody over gently rolling drums. As ever, Vance’s […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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

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

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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 […]

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Midlake & John Grant “Roadrunner Blues” – at a 1,000 mile per hour

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