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Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 20-11

December 19, 2024 Mark Whitfield 2
So we have reached the end of another year here at AUK and the bombardment of new music has once again been relentless – we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up […]
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Album Reviews

Ruth Moody “Wanderer”

May 14, 2024 Viv Fish 2
For the listeners, the lovers, the dreamers, and all those who wander. It’s not every day that an album sweeps you off your feet and hits the spot on first listening. Nor does every album have […]
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New Ruth Moody album “Wanderer” out May

March 26, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Ruth Moody has announced the release of her latest solo album ‘Wanderer’, on 17th May 2024 via Blue Muse Records. Originally from Winnipeg, Moody now splits her time between Nashville and  Vancouver Island. The award-winning singer-songwriter […]

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The Brothers Gillespie “Kingfisher”

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“The spirit of Americana UK” – our writing team remembers Paul Kerr

October 8, 2026 0
It’s been a sad time for us here in the AUK community with the loss of two of our writers in such a short period of time, and the loss of our Live Reviews Editor for […]
Features

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Fred Arnold

October 8, 2026 0
It’s the third in the new Feature, seeking out the best americana album by a UK artist, and Fred Arnold throws his hat in the ring this week What a challenge is this? – as a […]
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Bill Scorzari “Sidereal Days (Day 2)”

October 8, 2026 0
Part two of Bill Scorzari’s double-album project has him weaving from love lost to love kept and on the go. Bill Scorzari is a former New York trial lawyer with a Walt Whitman beard that extends […]

  • “The spirit of Americana UK” – our writing team remembers Paul Kerr
  • The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Fred Arnold
  • Bill Scorzari “Sidereal Days (Day 2)”
  • Live Review: The Annie Keating Band + The Dreaming Spires, Little Rabbit Barn, Ardleigh, Colchester – 2nd October 2026
  • The Brothers Gillespie “Kingfisher”
  • Americana Stories – Stuart Anderson “The Doubts That Make Us Strong”
  • The Male Pattern “I Was Shot In The Heart”
  • Élise LeBlanc “Lavender Honey” – honkey-tonk romance
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
Interviews

Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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Video: Vic Chesnutt “Strange Language”

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This week’s retro slot goes back to 1995 with the sadly missed Vic Chesnutt and Strange Language from his great album Is The Actor Happy?  Have a good weekend everyone.
Album Reviews

Molly Maher “Follow” (Real Phonic Records, 2020)

June 4, 2020 0
Waiting nine years to produce an album that “feels good”, even scrapping an album along the way because “it didn’t feel authentic”, may seem a little extreme to some, to say the least. But this is […]
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Isobel Campbell “Everything Falls Apart” – Taking down the patriarchy

April 19, 2024 0
Isobel Campbell takes on the patriarchy on her latest single ‘Everything Falls Apart’.  This is the second single from her forthcoming album ‘Bow to Love’ due 17th May on Cooking Vinyl Records. “My elegy to the […]

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