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Can’t Live With it, Can’t Live Without it: Drive-By Truckers

December 18, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

I first clapped eyes on Drive-By Truckers when they were on the Jools Holland Show in 2010 playing ‘Birthday Boy’ from “The Big to Do” album. I had always had a bit of a soft spot […]

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 10 – Drive-By Truckers

February 5, 2024 Clint West 2

Today we begin the countdown to ‘The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists’. Over the next two weeks we will reveal one each publication day, in reverse order, until we reach our number one at the […]

News

Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood & Jason Isbell to release live boxset

March 15, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Mike Cooley, Patterson Hood & Jason Isbell have announced a special indie exclusive 4 LP box set release of their memorable Live At The Shoals Theatre performance which lands on June 4th, 2021. You can pre-order […]

Interviews

Interview: Patterson Hood on “The New OK”, COVID and the Portland Riots

October 8, 2020 Martin Johnson 2

Americana UK has been lucky enough to speak to Patterson Hood of the Drive-by Truckers as their new album, ‘The New OK’, gets its digital release. Their 2016 ‘American Band’ album was the Truckers most overtly […]

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Something for the weekend: Tom Petty “Crawling Back to You”

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AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – June 2025

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Danny Horn & The Shared Myths: “The Death of Lucy”

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Oregon’s Anna Tivel releases new record “Animal Poem” late summer 2025

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Classic Clips: Rich Hopkins & Luminarios “Paraguay” – Norderstedt, 2019

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  • Something for the weekend: Tom Petty “Crawling Back to You”
  • AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – June 2025
  • Danny Horn & The Shared Myths: “The Death of Lucy”
  • Oregon’s Anna Tivel releases new record “Animal Poem” late summer 2025
  • Classic Clips: Rich Hopkins & Luminarios “Paraguay” – Norderstedt, 2019
  • Tift Merritt reissues “Tambourine” along with companion of demos and home recordings
  • Sam Kelly “Dreamers Dawn”
  • Live Review: JP Harris + Jack Browning, The Lexington, London, 3rd June 2025
  • The Wood Brothers “The Trick” – how to live your life
  • Video Premiere: Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus “I Want it All”
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  • Paul Kerr: Thanks Alan, great to see that some folk already know about Lachlan and great to hear that we have promoters…
  • Graeme Tait: Hi Alan. Yeah, quite a varied collection this month.

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Interview: The Brother Brothers – What’s going on?

June 18, 2025 0

This interview took place just before The Brother Brothers left the US for a tour in Australia, which was cancelled when David Moss passed out while swimming in the surf and nearly drowned. You know we’ve […]

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Interview: Caleb Caudle values endurance and radical empathy

June 3, 2025 0

Caleb Caudle has been making music for longer than you might guess since the night he walked up to an open mic night, sat down and strummed his first chord in a live setting. He sings […]

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Interview: Chatham Rabbits can pull from a hatful of songs

May 28, 2025 1

It’s hard to pin down and stamp a genre like a Notary Public would on Chatham Rabbits. The husband-and-wife duo of Austin and Sarah McCombie started out in bluegrass and old-timey music, but they have taken […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 34

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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