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Interview: The Mighty Oak’s discuss their international credentials and new record “Mexico”

May 27, 2021 Martin Johnson 0
Why Germany is a good place to play music and the benefits of making an album during a pandemic. Regular readers of Americana UK will know that periodically we feature americana artists from Europe to bring […]
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Mighty Oaks “Ghost” – Listen

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Berlin based Mighty Oaks have another single from their new album ‘Mexico‘, which is out on May 7th.  With soaring harmony vocals it moves from the possibly romantic to the slightly threatening – is this love […]
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Mighty Oaks “Mexico” – Listen

March 15, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Mighty Oaks make no apology for their new song being uplifting and even somewhat escapist.  Sometimes it’s just necessary to say “life is disappointing – forget it!” Or, as Mighty Oaks have it: “2020 brought out […]

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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 […]
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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 […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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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 […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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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

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