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Force of nature returns – new Mavis Staples album arrives in November

August 28, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Mavis Staples — one of the most enduring figures in American music — is bringing to the world her latest album “Sad And Beautiful World“ on 7th November 2025 via Anti- Records. Rightly described as a […]

"I will swim to You" A Tribute to Jason Molina album cover

Various Artists: “I Will Swim to You – A Tribute to Jason Molina”

August 22, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

Why put a new address on the same old loneliness? For those unfamiliar with the work of Jason Molina, there’s a fantastic twenty-one-minute meditative documentary from 2005 which follows the band Magnolia Electric Co. as they […]

AMA announces nominations for 24th Annual Americana Honours and Awards

June 12, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

The Americana Music Association (AMA) – the US one that is – has announced the nominations for their 24th Annual Americana Honours & Awards for 2025. The awards will be presented at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on […]

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 10-1

December 20, 2024 Mark Whitfield 7

Yesterday we counted down numbers 20-11 in our top albums of 2024 and noted that we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up but that 2024 undoubtedly contained future classics which people […]

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s Top 20 songs of 2024: Part One, 20-11

December 16, 2024 Mark Whitfield 6

As I often remark these days, or these years, where once my musical life was all about albums, I along with apparently everyone under the age of 65 now have the attention span of a goldfish […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Little Feat after Lowell George

May 20, 2026 3

I’ve gone on record as proclaiming Waiting For Columbus one of the best live albums in the universe, so I took a long time to reconcile myself to the fact that the band had a life […]

Steep Canyon Rangers “Next Act”

May 20, 2026 0

Time to secure your first-class ticket to a bluegrass celebration. Steep Canyon Rangers have been around a long time and continue to produce fine music, and their live performances are legendary. Next Act is their fifteenth […]

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

Interviews

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2

Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

Interviews

Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1

At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

Album Reviews

The Third Mind “Spellbinder”

March 17, 2026 0

Psychedelic rock supergroup continues to impress with a four-song EP companion piece to last year’s critically acclaimed album. There are very few musical collaborations doing the rounds these days as talented as The Third Mind. Formed […]

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Julia Logan “River Run” – flow to the sea

July 8, 2022 0

Julia Logan says that she’d been listening “a lot to Neil Young’s live album with Crosby, Stills & Nash called ‘4 Way Street’” whilst writing ‘River Run.‘ Well she’s talking our language there, which ensured this […]

Album Reviews

Ginger Wildheart “Ghost In The Tanglewood” (Round Records, 2018)

February 14, 2018 1

There’s a dichotomy at the heart of these songs – they are generally explorations of mental illness and especially Wildheart’s struggle with depression, and yet the songs sound joyous. ‘Daylight Hotel’ which opens the record was […]

Force of nature returns – new Mavis Staples album arrives in November

Various Artists: “I Will Swim to You – A Tribute to Jason Molina”

AMA announces nominations for 24th Annual Americana Honours and Awards

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 10-1

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s Top 20 songs of 2024: Part One, 20-11

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Little Feat after Lowell George

Steep Canyon Rangers “Next Act”

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

Abigail Lapell “Shadow Child”

Montana duo Buffalo Traffic Jam to release full-length debut in July