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Michael McDermott “Flowers From The Graveyard”

August 19, 2026 Chas Lacey 1
Anthemic songs of hard times and hope amidst the 99%. Now well into his sixth decade, Michael McDermott keeps on producing records of quality from his home city of Chicago. The eagerly awaited Flowers From The […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Michael McDermott “The Best We Get” – only focus on what is in your control

May 7, 2026 Andrew Frolish 2
The new single from Chicago singer-songwriter Michael McDermott is a typically catchy song that immediately hooks you in with big chords and big choruses. Opening with bright, uplifting guitar, The Best We Get is a driving […]
Features

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 20-11

December 19, 2024 Mark Whitfield 2
So we have reached the end of another year here at AUK and the bombardment of new music has once again been relentless – we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up […]
Album Reviews

Michael McDermott “Lighthouse on the Shore” & “East Jesus”

September 12, 2024 FredArnold 4
The best singer-songwriter of his generation? – Discuss. Michael McDermott delivers an awesome twosome! “Michael McDermott is one of the finest singer-songwriters of this generation” – so said Stephen King after listening to McDermott’s third album […]
Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: The Westies “West Side Stories”

October 26, 2022 Peter Churchill 0
Michael McDermott was first signed to a major label in 1991. A number of albums followed, the label dropped him and, in his own words “Those days are now just a wash of dreams of characters, […]

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Michael McDermott “Flowers From The Graveyard”

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Film of “Hadestown: The Musical” gets limited release in October

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Sequoia “So Long”

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Live Review: Jenny Don’t And The Spurs, The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge – 12th August 2026

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Interview: Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester on why “It’s A Joy To Be Alive”

August 19, 2026 0
One thing everyone quickly learns as they get older is that time waits for no one, and that life continues its unstoppable flow forward. Americana UK has followed Ferris & Sylvester’s career since their first album, […]
artwork for Michael McDermott album "Flowers From The Graveyard"
Album Reviews

Michael McDermott “Flowers From The Graveyard”

August 19, 2026 1
Anthemic songs of hard times and hope amidst the 99%. Now well into his sixth decade, Michael McDermott keeps on producing records of quality from his home city of Chicago. The eagerly awaited Flowers From The […]
Hadestown The Musical movie still
News

Film of “Hadestown: The Musical” gets limited release in October

August 19, 2026 0
Hadestown, the musical co-written by Anais Mitchell and Rachel Chavkin, has earned many accolades, including eight Tony Awards in 2019, including Best Musical, and the 2020 Grammy Award for Best Musical Theatre Album. But if you […]

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  • Michael McDermott “Flowers From The Graveyard”
  • Film of “Hadestown: The Musical” gets limited release in October
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  • Live Review: Jenny Don’t And The Spurs, The Trades Club, Hebden Bridge – 12th August 2026
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Interview: Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester on why “It’s A Joy To Be Alive”

August 19, 2026 0
One thing everyone quickly learns as they get older is that time waits for no one, and that life continues its unstoppable flow forward. Americana UK has followed Ferris & Sylvester’s career since their first album, […]
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Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]
Interviews

Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]

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Tracks

Ian Noe “Tom Barrett” – there is a darkness

March 30, 2022 0
A second song from Ian Noe’s new album ‘River Fools and Mountain Saints‘ which paints in a song a series of portraits of Appalachia and its people as it is today.  So, ‘Tom Barrett’, documents a […]
News

Jesse Malin announces UK dates for 2020

July 17, 2019 0
Jesse Malin has announced a headline UK tour to follow the release of his Lucinda Williams-produced new album ‘Sunset Kids’, which is out August 30 via Wicked Cool Records/Velvet Elk. The New York singer-songwriter will follow […]
Live Reviews

Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters, The American Museum in Britain, Bath, 20th August 2017

August 28, 2017 0
High up on Claverton Hill on the outskirts of Bath is the bucolic setting of The American Museum in Britain. Established in 1961 with the aim of educating the UK, and the world, about American cultural […]

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