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Richard Thompson – 70th Birthday Celebration, Royal Albert Hall, London, 30th September 2019

October 14, 2019 Claire Stones 1

When you’ve had a career such as Richard Thompson’s, supreme songwriter and guitar virtuoso, with many fellow musicians as fans, your 70th Birthday bash, of course, has to be held at the Royal Albert Hall. On […]

Happy Christmas from all of us at Americana UK

December 21, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s a wrap from us for this year dear AUK readers. Thanks for all your support over the last 12 months, whether it’s been being a monthly supporter, subscribing to our daily email or just […]

Loudon Wainwright III announces new 2 disc rarities retrospective

July 12, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

The literal legend Loudon Wainwright III will release ‘Years in the Making’, a two-disc compendium of 45 years of Loudon’s offbeaten, rare and unissued tracks on September 14th via StorySound Records. Described a true “audio-biography” it includes orphaned album cuts, […]

Loudon Wainwright III – ‘Survivng Twin’

February 21, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s fair to say that growing up Loudon Wainwright III had some mixed feelings about his father, a columnist for LIFE magazine which he has summed up himself in a typically forthright and candid manner: “When […]

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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 […]

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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

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 […]

Album Reviews

Rufus Wainwright “Folkocracy”

July 11, 2023 1

Star studded folk duets album delivers a polished sound. We don’t know for certain if he’s zipping up his boots, but ‘Folkocracy’ certainly sees musical polymath Rufus Wainwright returning to his roots. The son of Loudon […]

Tracks

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Tracks

Folk Tracks Roundup – February 2026

February 19, 2026 0

What have we got this month that’s good in the world of folk song? There’s old songs done new ways, and there’s new songs done old ways. There’s the experimental, and there’s the discovery of what […]

Richard Thompson – 70th Birthday Celebration, Royal Albert Hall, London, 30th September 2019

Happy Christmas from all of us at Americana UK

Loudon Wainwright III announces new 2 disc rarities retrospective

Loudon Wainwright III – ‘Survivng Twin’

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”