Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup News
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone” Album Reviews
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues” Features
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets” Album Reviews
  • [ March 23, 2026 ] Jack Studer “Falling Forward” Album Reviews
HomeNeko Case

Neko Case

Book Reviews

Book Review: Neko Case “The Harder I Fight The More I Love You”

May 2, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Neko Case’s memoir provides a starkly honest picture of her early life as well as the route by which she came to be the artist and the person she is today.  The book takes us from […]
Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Kimberly Bright

January 18, 2024 Kimberly Bright 4
After seven months of this series, it has been entertaining to see how many different artists have appeared on AUK writers’ lists instead of the same names repeatedly. By my count, it has been about 110 […]
Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Neko Case “Furnace Room Lullaby”

May 26, 2021 Peter Tomkins 1
‘Furnace Room Lullaby’ announces itself pretty quickly as “not your standard country album” with the front cover of Case stretched out on what appears to be a public toilet concrete floor like a corpse. Turn the […]
News

Roky Erickson tribute features Lucinda, Neko and Jeff Tweedy

April 13, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0
Celebrated archival label Light in the Attic Records have announced the first-ever posthumous tribute to the psychedelic rock luminary and pioneer Roky Erickson with ‘May The Circle Remain Unbroken: A Tribute To Roky Erickson’ which lands […]
News

Black Deer adds Case, Kristofferson and Earle (Justin Townes) to 2019 line-up

February 12, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
Oh crikey, this is looking like it’s going to be an event and a half. What’s probably turning into the UK’s biggest americana and country music festival has just announced some more names to its line-up […]

Posts pagination

« 1 2 3 »

Recent Forum Posts

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Chris Knight - Chris Knight

    By Joe Nathan , 2 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever

    By Joe Nathan , 2 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Old 97s - Too Far to Care

    By Joe Nathan , 3 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi

    By Joe Nathan , 3 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac

    By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Wilco - summerteeth

    By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun

    By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago

  • Calling fiction writers - we want to publish your stories

    Americana UK is putting out a call for original short f...

    By Tim Martin , 5 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Rolling Stones - Some Girls

    By Joe Nathan , 5 days ago

our latest posts

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

News
March 23, 2026 0
Cat Clyde Mud Blood Bone artwork

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

Album Reviews
March 23, 2026 0
Marah Live

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

Features
March 23, 2026 0

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Album Reviews
March 23, 2026 0

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

Album Reviews
March 23, 2026 0
News

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 […]
Cat Clyde Mud Blood Bone artwork
Album Reviews

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 […]
Marah Live
Features

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

March 23, 2026 0
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 […]

  • Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup
  • Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”
  • For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”
  • Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”
  • Jack Studer “Falling Forward”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”
  • Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”
  • Video: Jay Buchanan “Sway” – always wanting to do it better
  • Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”
  • Danny George Wilson “Arcade”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Mike Ritchie: As a fellow Dundonian (happily resident in Glasgow since 1978) this is the perfect list – with excellent and informed…
  • Andrew Riggs: Great review to remind us that good music can still be found.
  • Martin Johnson: Thanks, Paul. Mind you, a lot of that. Was down to Mr Alvin who was very open.

Latest interviews

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2
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 […]
Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

You may have missed…

Tracks

Lewin “Sorrow” – Listen

March 18, 2020 0
Some might say that Lewin, the recording name of Jara Holdert,  brought ‘Sorrow‘ on herself, as in a rather prophetic way today’s song describes how her love might leave her; the small signs that point to […]
Interviews

Interview: Courtney Marie Andrews discusses her new album fuelled by heartache, reflection & release

July 17, 2020 0
Over the past few years Courtney Marie Andrews has basically charmed the socks off us all. From the first listen to her breakthrough album ‘Honest Life’ and a string of sensational, sassy and ultimately charming live […]
Tracks

BC Camplight “The Last Rotation Of Earth” – The End is Nigh

March 21, 2023 0
Brian “BC Camplight” Christinzio has a new album out on Bella Union on May 12th, of which this is the title track.  Hard to characterise, quirky singer-songwriter is hardly a genre – maybe think of a […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool