Liz Longley

Essentials: The Top Ten Songs That Name-Drop Other Artists

July 17, 2025 Andy Short 33

It has long been a tradition in music for artists to cover their favourite songs. Some take the original to the next level, while others are straight copies; some are plain weird, and finally, there are […]

Liz Longley “New Life”

April 15, 2025 FredArnold 0

Liz Longley leaves sad songs behind to reflect on the concerns and wonderment of marriage and parenthood. When you think of female singers with the most immaculate voices, and perfect pitch, you would probably come up […]

More People Really Should Know About: Liz Longley

December 5, 2023 FredArnold 0

Liz Longley is in her mid-thirties now but has been recording and releasing music for the last 14 years. My first introduction to her was a most wonderful track, probably still my favourite, called ‘Outta My […]

Jingle Bells Friday – Have you done your cards yet?

November 27, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

We here at Americana UK get a lot of song offers for features throughout the year. And from late October a number, an increasing number as the days pass into November, are Yuletide themed. The joys […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Chris Knight - Chris Knight
By Joe Nathan , 2 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever
By Joe Nathan , 2 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Old 97s - Too Far to Care
By Joe Nathan , 3 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
By Joe Nathan , 3 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Wilco - summerteeth
By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago
Calling fiction writers - we want to publish your stories
Americana UK is putting out a call for original short f...
By Tim Martin , 4 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Rolling Stones - Some Girls
By Joe Nathan , 5 days ago

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

Live Review: Alan Fletcher, The Bedford, Balham, London – 22nd July 2025

July 30, 2025 0

As no doubt many readers will have instantly recognised, this is the same Alan Fletcher who plays Dr Karl Kennedy in the Australian TV drama ‘Neighbours’. Readers will also recognise Alan Fletcher, the singer/songwriter from AUK’s […]

Album Reviews

Rachel Sermanni “Swallow Me”

June 17, 2021 0

An intimate, meditative EP of thought-provoking songs. Rachel Sermanni follows a path worn by other Scottish singers like Karine Polwart and Kim Edgar in taking a basic Joni Mitchell template and giving it a Celtic spin. […]

Album Reviews

Nathaniel Riley “Bird Songs”

June 26, 2023 0

Highly impressive debut from Colorado singer/songwriter. ‘Bird Songs’ is the debut album from Colorado singer/songwriter Nathaniel Riley. It is, in his own words, his “first real ‘kick on the musical door ‘ and hopefully it will […]

Essentials: The Top Ten Songs That Name-Drop Other Artists

Liz Longley “New Life”

More People Really Should Know About: Liz Longley

Jingle Bells Friday – Have you done your cards yet?

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”