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Live Review: Folk In The Park, Manor Park, Sutton – 16th August 2025

August 21, 2025 Oliver Gray 1
Sedentary performers were prominent at Folk In The Park. Richard Thompson had fallen down some stairs, while Tom Robinson was suffering from a more prosaic hernia. Poor Eddi Reader, meanwhile, had fallen ill but… The Show […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Linda Thompson presents Proxy Music, Cadogan Hall, London – 19th July 2024

August 1, 2024 Brian Hancill 0
Linda Thompson is one of the best singers ever to stand in front of a microphone. Across six albums with her then husband Richard and then on four solo releases, she brought songs to life with […]
News

Heartworn Highways live tribute planned for August

June 11, 2019 Mark Underwood 0
An evening that’s sure to be of huge interest to London-based lovers of music documentaries and Americana music is a live recreation of the cult film, Heartworn Highways. Set in the unique and intimate surrounds of Wilton’s, […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Bonnie Raitt “I Can’t Make You Love Me”

August 3, 2026 1
During the almost 55 years since the release of her eponymous debut album, Bonnie Raitt has established herself as  a top quality singer and slide guitar player; she has won many awards over her career, including […]
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Album Reviews

Mason Jennings “Dark Wings”

August 3, 2026 0
Minneapolis-based troubadour draws upon the Creative Spirit in turbulent times. Dark Wings is the eighteenth studio album from the prolific Mason Jennings. With a significant following in the USA and worldwide, new releases from the Minneapolis-based […]
AUK Mini-Gigs

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Samuel James Taylor

August 3, 2026 0
In one of several playfully erudite, self-written reflections included in press materials accompanying his debut solo album, Wild Tales and Broken Hearts (Sweet Irene Records, 2022), Sheffield troubadour Samuel James Taylor brands himself a believer in […]

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Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
Interviews

Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Dirty Dozens

Dirty Dozen: Sam Rochford

August 23, 2017 0
Sam Rochford is a 25-year-old Connecticut native now living in Nashville where she was formerly an on-air correspondent for 650 AM WSM’s “Nashville Today” show hosted by Devon O’Day. Prior to moving to Nashville, she was […]
Tracks

ARREN “Rising Sun” – new days arrive

October 30, 2025 0
To be honest ARREN doesn’t really help himself to get onto the pages of Americana UK: describing your music as having “the anthemic scale of iconic ’90s and 2000s pop-rock with the intimacy of singer-songwriter” and […]
Videos

Video: Peter Bruntnell “I Will, I Won’t”

November 3, 2017 0
This week’s retro slot is taken by one of the UK’s greats, Peter Bruntnell, with a suitably surreal video for this wonderful track from his 1995 debut album Cannibal.

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