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Matthew James Adkins “Stoned On My Own”

September 24, 2021 Martin Johnson 2
Muscle Shoals influenced country soul from Detroit. It is hard for aspiring musicians to get any career traction, even when they have managed to write enough songs for an album, and then manage to independently record […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Matthew James Adkins “Stoned on My Own”

September 17, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Matthew James Adkins delivers his world-weary vocals so convincingly on ‘Stoned on My Own’ that it’s easy to imagine that he is several albums into his music career.  However, this is the title track from his […]

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Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

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Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?

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Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking

July 17, 2026 0
We’ve been lucky enough here at Americana UK to have been aware of Anna Tivel and her astonishing songwriting pretty much from her emergence into the folk/singer-songwriter/americana combined genres. We haven’t been shy with our praise […]
Book Reviews

Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”

July 17, 2026 0
When Dennis McNally published A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead in 2002, he had an almost impossible task. It needed to document a band whose history was already wrapped in layers […]
News

Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

July 17, 2026 1
Or England tour to be precise. Tickets on sale from next Wednesday 22nd July. You may have heard of this artist we’ve mentioned on the site once or twice who goes by the name of Bob […]

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  • Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”
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  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Paul Sexton
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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

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Tracks

Angeline Morrison “Unknown African Boy (D.1830)” – Stunning New Folk

August 30, 2022 0
Here is something pretty special, very much a contender for the song of the month.  And with it comes a pretty special artist backstory. Angeline Morrison was first enchanted by folk music when she heard Shirley […]
Album Reviews

Josienne Clarke “Onliness”

June 7, 2023 0
Josienne Clarke reclaims her back catalogue. It has become something of the thing to do when someone has notched up a decade or more in the folk world: put out a retrospective but to distinguish it […]
News

UK Americana Awards 2024 nominations announced

November 28, 2023 3
The UK’s annual celebration of Americana and Roots music, UK Americana Music Week, powered by Sweet Home Alabama, returns to Hackney in London from 22nd – 25th January 2024. Themed Growing Our Roots in Americana, the […]

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