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Preview: Glasgow Americana Festival, 1st-5th October

September 25, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

The 19th annual Glasgow Americana festival will take place at various places around the city between 1st and 5th October 2025  with a mixture of some familiar and new faces. There will be over 40 musicians […]

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AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – August 2025

August 22, 2025 Graeme Tait 0

Welcome to August’s edition of the Monthly EPs Round-Up, where we run a sagacious eye over this month’s crop of new releases. And what a bumper crop we have to harvest this month, with no less […]

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Live Review: Americana Music Association UK Awards, Hackney Church, London, 23rd January 2025

February 14, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

And at last the bad weather had arrived. After a couple of nights at the Evening Music Showcases where there had been a distinct absence of snow or even rain and things had barely been chilly […]

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AMAUK Awards 2025 winners announced

January 24, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

The winners of the UK Americana Awards 2025 were revealed last night at an apparently glittering ceremony at Hackney Church, London. Gillian Welch & David Rawlings scooped Best International Album and Single awards for “Woodland” and […]

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Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 10-1

December 20, 2024 Mark Whitfield 7

Yesterday we counted down numbers 20-11 in our top albums of 2024 and noted that we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up but that 2024 undoubtedly contained future classics which people […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 2

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Video: Clint Michigan “Shirt Off”

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Taken from his album Centuries, this is a powerful song about insecurity and exposure by singer-songwriter Clint Michigan with an equally powerful video to accompany it.

Tracks

Ramona Rose “High Water” – Listen

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Manchester based Ramona Rose recently took the decision to leave her folk-rock band and hit the road as a solo artist, with just a guitar and a stomp-box loop pedal.  Having just completed an eight city […]

Album Reviews

Cruz Contreras “Cosmico”

September 25, 2023 1

‘Black Lillies’ frontman releases his first solo album, a mix of country-rock and Americana, with a psychedelic edge. Cruz Contreras has quite a track record. With a career spanning twenty-five years and going back to when […]

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