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Live Review: Rod Picott, St Lawrence’s Church Biddulph – 22nd October 2025

October 28, 2025 NickBarber 1

Biddulph is a former mining town on the Staffordshire/Cheshire border and St Lawrence’s Church has a history steeped in folklore – Templar Knights, the English civil war and Viking destruction – and Victorian secret societies – […]

Interview: Rod Picott takes the floor for his last dance

October 8, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 1

Over the years, Rod Picott has built up a dedicated following through regular album releases and frequent touring. The singer/songwriter from Maine is definitely a friend of the AUK show. So, his announcement earlier this year […]

Americana UK’s Top 20 Albums of 2023: Part Two, 10-1

December 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

After huddling with a bottle of parfait amour and a chopping board, we Americana UK writers have nailed down our top 20 albums of 2023. How did we do it? Every writer selected their album of […]

Pump Up The Volume – A Year of Tracks

December 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, another year steams away down the Americana UK Tracks, and it’s therefore time to do the annual compare and contrast in which we find just which songs you enjoyed each month dear readers, and compare […]

artwork for Rod Picott album "Starlight Tour"

Rod Picott “Starlight Tour”

October 19, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

Master songwriter delivers his twelfth studio album that confidently stands alongside the best of his career to date. There are few songwriters of the twenty-first century whose cannon of work stands up to the quality that […]

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Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever
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Old 97s - Too Far to Care
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R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi
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Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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Rolling Stones - Some Girls
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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

Track Premiere: Haunted Like Human “Appaloosa”

September 17, 2025 0

‘Appaloosa‘ is the latest single from the upcoming album “American Mythology,” from the Nashville-based folk duo of Dale Chapman (they/them) and Cody Clark (he/him), who together are Haunted Like Human. It’s their first release since 2021’s […]

Videos

Rodeo FM “Shame Shame Shame”

August 16, 2021 0

Having spent years working their way across Europe on the ‘any-gig-you-can-get’ circuit, Rodeo FM show off their impassioned and polished alt.country skills on ‘Shame Shame Shame‘, the barnstorming second single from their upcoming EP, ‘All The […]

News

Delta queen Bronwynne Brent to play UK tour in October

September 23, 2025 0

Mississippi Delta songbird, Bronwynne Brent, made a major US impact with the release of her “Deep Black Water” album back in 2011. When her follow-up “Stardust” arrived to critical acclaim in 2014, Bob Harris declared himself […]

Live Review: Rod Picott, St Lawrence’s Church Biddulph – 22nd October 2025

Interview: Rod Picott takes the floor for his last dance

Americana UK’s Top 20 Albums of 2023: Part Two, 10-1

Pump Up The Volume – A Year of Tracks

Rod Picott “Starlight Tour”

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”