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Rich Layton & Tough Town

Album Reviews

Rich Layton & Tough Town “Salvation Road” (Never Lucky Records, 2019)

June 19, 2019 Mark Johnson 0
On the original road to salvation, St. Paul suggests that the wages of sin are death. Rich Layton has avoided that outcome in a lifetime in the rock’n’roll trenches, but has taken a few knocks along […]

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Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”

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Videos

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

August 21, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Teenage Fanclub who will release their new album Do Not Dare To Dream on 9th October via […]
Album Reviews

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

August 21, 2026 0
A confident debut that shows the Nashville-based singer-songwriter has a vigour that sets her apart from the crowd. For singer-songwriter Alicia Blue, Waylon Jennings isn’t so much an influence as someone she calls “a creative angel […]
Features

Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

August 21, 2026 0
Michael Hurley died last year, and wasn’t it starting to look like he wasn’t the dying kind? Every now and then someone goes, and it’s only then that you realise what you’d been hoping for: that […]

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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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Interviews

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 […]
Interviews

Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]

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Nikki & the Phantom Callers “Mamas Should Know” – Listen

August 17, 2018 0
Jangling and smouldering in the way you might associate with The Sadies, Nikki & The Phantom Callers play country-rock with a hint of classic mid-sixties production.  ‘Mamas Should Know‘ is the B-side of their new single […]
Album Reviews

Darlingside “Everything Is Alive”

August 1, 2023 0
Another brilliant slice of harmonious gorgeousness from the Boston quartet. The manner in which bands and artists create their material is vitally important and each will have their own way of arranging this. For the four […]
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The Brook & The Bluff “Werewolf”

March 19, 2026 0
Going back to their roots. After almost a decade of constant touring, The Brook & The Bluff took a break and stayed put in Nashville, meeting up every weekday morning for band practice. It was just […]

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