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Interview: Colin Cutler on his view of the American South through Flannery O’Connor’s eyes

January 19, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

Catholicism and Pentecostalism, with some sacred steel and concrete details. Americana is a broad church, and Colin Cutler’s love of folk and roots music means this Greensboro, North Carolina resident fits right into the genre. Where […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Paul Kerr

January 11, 2024 Paul Kerr 7

As has been mentioned many times before in this feature, there’s a conundrum at the heart of it. First off, what on earth is americana? Well, for this piece, it’s whatever I decide fits the bill. […]

The Top 10 Greatest Americana Artists: Andrew Frolish

October 5, 2023 Andrew Frolish 1

So, it’s my turn to agonise over the selection of the greatest ever artists in our little musical world of americana. Of course, the first thing to consider is how on earth we define the genre […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Graeme Tait

August 17, 2023 Graeme Tait 19

Having dared to take a peak at my fellow AUK Writer’s Top 10 list over the previous weeks, rather like a naughty schoolboy trying to copy in class, I get the feeling that these articles are […]

Dream Team Triple Header – Sam Lee, Rhiannon Giddens and Teenage Fanclub

June 8, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Songkick offers just one real wildcard this time in its triple header not really a triple header email…err…header – Rhiannon Giddens and Sam Lee are a pairing that would, of course, naturally go together, maybe at […]

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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”

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tracks

Something for the weekend: Rosanne Cash “The Killing Fields”

April 9, 2021 0

That’s us again for this week dear reader. We leave you with a new powerful song from Rosanne Cash in which she tackles the US’s dark history of lynchings, called ‘The Killing Fields.’ “A few years of […]

AUK Mini-Gigs

Exclusive AUK ‘Mega-Concert’ Premiere: VanWyck

November 27, 2020 0

Throughout this challenging year, Americana-UK has posted occasional ‘mini-gigs’ to connect artists with their audiences. At a time when attending live music events was out of the question for many, these little shows, from artists’ living […]

News

Queerfolk Fest 2021 offers free live streaming

June 10, 2021 0

And that’s this very weekend coming up – on June 12th there’s the opportunity to watch (at a fairly reasonable time even with the seven-hour difference between UK and US Central Time) an impressive lineup of […]

Interview: Colin Cutler on his view of the American South through Flannery O’Connor’s eyes

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Paul Kerr

The Top 10 Greatest Americana Artists: Andrew Frolish

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Graeme Tait

Dream Team Triple Header – Sam Lee, Rhiannon Giddens and Teenage Fanclub

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”