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Classic Americana Album: Neutral Milk Hotel “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”

April 20, 2022 Cam Fraser 0
It takes quite an effort to be an especially lazy person; easier to just be typically lazy. So, in selecting this album as a classic of Americana, I’ll demonstrate my own typically lazy approach by straightaway […]
Features

Americana A to Z – Neutral Milk Hotel

February 25, 2020 Diccon Johnston 0
Americana is described as the “amalgam of American music formed by the confluence of the shared and varied traditions”. You might therefore think it inappropriate when producing an article entitled Americana A-Z, to write about Neutral […]
Album Reviews

Ian Felice “In The Kingdom of Dreams” (Loose, 2017)

August 29, 2017 David Cowling 0
Between two things there is often a dilution of each, a middle of the road but there is also the possibility of great fertility. I mention this as when listening to this record my first impression […]

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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the weird in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 0
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]
Album artwork for Lambchop's "Punching the Clown"
Album Reviews

Lambchop “Punching The Clown”

August 24, 2026 0
Kurt Wagner’s very individual vision takes another sharp turn. Kurt Wagner, for he is the constant in Lambchop’s story, delivers the band’s 16th album and like most of those that have come before, it’s hard to […]
Craig Finn performs solo
Features

For The Sake of The Song: Craig Finn “God in Chicago”

August 24, 2026 0
I am sure many of you will know of Craig Finn. The front man with The Hold Steady has been applying his raspy form of talk-singing to their blend of indie punk and heartland rock since […]

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  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 250 “Edinburgh”
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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the weird in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 0
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]
Interviews

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 […]

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Live Review: Cua + Danny Bradley, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 17th March 2023

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Video: Guise “Don’t Come Back”

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Writing for Americana UK is frequently a gift, and this was certainly true this week. Having not heard of the last chain gang offering, this writer had to dig a little deeper. Meg Olsen is the […]

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