Larkin Poe

Video: Larkin Poe “Bluephoria”

July 17, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

The Lovell sisters rock the blues in their new video for Larkin Poe’s ‘Bluephoria’. The video was shot in The Blue Room at Jack White’s Third Man Records in Nashville. Megan Lovell’s signature standing lapsteel shines […]

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – Win a pair of tickets to see Fanny Lumsden on tour

July 5, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by The Decemberists, Jason McNiff, Seasick Steve, Ana Egge and […]

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – Win a pair of weekend tickets for the 2024 Cambridge Folk Festival!

June 7, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

As those of you who have been around these parts for a while will know, AUK supporters get entered into a draw each month where they can win vinyl, books or tickets to gigs, but we’re […]

Americana Music Association announces nominees for 23rd Annual Honours and Awards

May 9, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The AMAUK awards take place here in January each year but over in the US, the (not UK) Americana Music Association (AMA) has announced the nominees for their 23rd Annual Americana Honours & Awards. The awards […]

Video: Larkin Poe “Bad Spell” (Acoustic)

September 25, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s something a little different from GRAMMY-nominated sister duo Larkin Poe. The Nashville-based Rebecca and Megan Lovell are usually to be found with electric guitars in hand, delivering bluesy riffs with edge and energy – check […]

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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 […]

News

Pick of the Political Pops: Waylon Jennings “Mental Revenge”

June 1, 2018 0

We like to think ourselves as fairly tolerant folk here at Americana-UK Towers and are prepared to forgive and forget most things (except not putting fifty pence in the meter over the Bank Holiday so that […]

Album Reviews

Desert Blonde “Live Slow Die Old” (Independent, 2020)

November 2, 2020 0

Started initially in the studio in winter 2020 but ultimately finished in the extended quarantine that 2021 has proved to be this fourth EP from Desert Blonde, a.k.a. Zach Hinkle, reflects that fact. Without the ability […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Jacob Aranda “Strangers in a Field”

July 31, 2023 0

We’re pleased to premiere the absorbing new song from Bay Area singer-songwriter Jacob Aranda. ‘Strangers in a Field’ is a lyrically-powerful song of familial alienation and isolation. Aranda’s low, sonorous voice, lifted by haunting backing vocals, […]

Video: Larkin Poe “Bluephoria”

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – Win a pair of tickets to see Fanny Lumsden on tour

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – Win a pair of weekend tickets for the 2024 Cambridge Folk Festival!

Americana Music Association announces nominees for 23rd Annual Honours and Awards

Video: Larkin Poe “Bad Spell” (Acoustic)

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”