Robert Earl Keen

Essentials: The Top 10 Robert Earl Keen albums

November 17, 2022 Clint West 7

This week marks the welcome return of ‘Essentials’ the series in which we ask our writers to select either their Top 10 albums or Top 10 songs from a single artist or group of related artists. […]

Classic Americana Albums: Robert Earl Keen “A Bigger Piece of the Sky”

June 15, 2022 Clint West 5

‘A Bigger Piece of the Sky’ is Robert Earl Keen’s third studio album released in 1993 on Sugar Hill Records. Any discussion of Keen’s best album invariably boils down to shoot out between this and its […]

The Unsung Heroes of Americana – The Road

December 23, 2021 Rick Bayles 4

“On the road again Just can’t wait to get on the road again The life I love is making music with my friends And I can’t wait to get on the road again” Willie Nelson’s timeless […]

10 americana food songs to tuck into

April 23, 2021 Clint West 0

Ask any reader of this site what their great pleasures in life are and many will presumably say music. It’s probably a decent bet though, that many of them would also say food. It therefore makes […]

10 americana fishing songs

August 17, 2020 Clint West 3

Fishing is the second most popular outdoor recreational activity in America (behind running). It is estimated that around 50 million Americans fish regularly. Despite being associated with the older generation, 60% of American anglers are under […]

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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 […]

News

Mary Chapin Carpenter announces UK dates, new album

February 9, 2018 0

The new album from Mary Chapin Carpenter (no relation to Karen or Jesus) ‘Sometimes Just The Sky’, will be released March 30th via Thirty Tigers, and features new versions of some of Carpenter’s best-known songs as well as […]

Features

Let’s unpack the haul…

August 4, 2023 1

A favourite YouTube influencer video is the showing off what you bought on your latest shopping expedition, or unpacking a package that came through the post. Well, this isn’t YouTube, and here at Americana UK you […]

Album Reviews

Various Artists: “The Power of the Heart: A Tribute to Lou Reed”

April 5, 2024 0

A career spanning tribute by artists spanning various musical genres. Tribute albums are as old as long-playing records themselves, and as you can imagine, their quality has been extremely variable over the decades. The best ones […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Robert Earl Keen albums

Classic Americana Albums: Robert Earl Keen “A Bigger Piece of the Sky”

The Unsung Heroes of Americana – The Road

10 americana food songs to tuck into

10 americana fishing songs

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”