Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • Fiction
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ August 4, 2026 ] Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider Interviews
  • [ August 4, 2026 ] Phil Hooley “Everything We’ll Never Need” Album Reviews
  • [ August 4, 2026 ] Americana on Audio: Three books that you don’t need an Audible subscription for Book Reviews
  • [ August 4, 2026 ] More People Should Really Know About: Agalisiga “Chuj” Mackey Features
  • [ August 4, 2026 ] AUK Shortcuts: Around About Dusk, Paul Mosley and The Red Meat Orchestra, Coldsville, The Roseline, Jim Reynolds, Long John Makkay, Clark Paterson, and Davis Wells Album Reviews
HomeSam Kelly & The Lost Boys

Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys

Live Reviews

Live Review: Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys + Honey and the Bear, Junction 2, Cambridge – 9th June 2025

June 30, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Sam Kelly’s take on folk music relies on a combination of reworked and mostly sped-up traditional songs and his own, often more introspective, self-writes. With the full Lost Boys band he frequently leans into a joyful […]

our latest posts

Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

Interviews
August 4, 2026 0
Album cover artwork for Phil Hooley "Everything We'll Never Need"

Phil Hooley “Everything We’ll Never Need”

Album Reviews
August 4, 2026 0

Americana on Audio: Three books that you don’t need an Audible subscription for

Book Reviews
August 4, 2026 0

More People Should Really Know About: Agalisiga “Chuj” Mackey

Features
August 4, 2026 0
press shot Around About Dusk provided by band 16/06/2026

AUK Shortcuts: Around About Dusk, Paul Mosley and The Red Meat Orchestra, Coldsville, The Roseline, Jim Reynolds, Long John Makkay, Clark Paterson, and Davis Wells

Album Reviews
August 4, 2026 0
Interviews

Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0
Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
Album cover artwork for Phil Hooley "Everything We'll Never Need"
Album Reviews

Phil Hooley “Everything We’ll Never Need”

August 4, 2026 0
An appealing laid-back brew of blues, soul and country with gentle swing and groove. Scarborough-based Phil Hooley is the founder of the alt-country band The Woolgatherers. Everything We’ll Never Need is his third solo album after […]
Book Reviews

Americana on Audio: Three books that you don’t need an Audible subscription for

August 4, 2026 0
Audiobooks are one of the big growth areas in listening. They now amount to 10% of the UK publishing market. That market is still dominated by the convenience of Amazon’s Audible platform, and there are plenty […]

  • Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider
  • Phil Hooley “Everything We’ll Never Need”
  • Americana on Audio: Three books that you don’t need an Audible subscription for
  • More People Should Really Know About: Agalisiga “Chuj” Mackey
  • AUK Shortcuts: Around About Dusk, Paul Mosley and The Red Meat Orchestra, Coldsville, The Roseline, Jim Reynolds, Long John Makkay, Clark Paterson, and Davis Wells
  • Various Artists “Sittin’ with Blaze, A Tribute to Blaze Foley”
  • Ian Noe announces new album with September release
  • Tom Waits “The Fly” – no Jeff Goldblum
  • Video Premiere: Erik Vincent Huey “Things You Left Behind”
  • For The Sake Of The Song: Bonnie Raitt “I Can’t Make You Love Me”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Kelly Rock: These guys are superb. Saw them live at High Tide Festival in Twickenham. Really great performance.
  • Chris Dodge: It may be through one of the magazine polls you have already referred to but I was drawn to the…
  • keith hargreaves: Completely different to my take on the album Ben. I found it engaging, moving and on occasion thrilling. Perhaps more…

Latest interviews

Interviews

Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0
Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

You may have missed…

Videos

Something for the weekend: Hurray for the Riff Raff “Colossus of Roads”

February 2, 2024 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader – if you’re an AUK supporter our new playlist is out later today. We leave you in the meantime with a new song from a band […]
Videos

Video: Sam Gleaves & Tyler Hughes “When We Love”

June 20, 2017 0
This is the new single from Sam & Tyler, from their eponymous first album together, out in June.  Sam’s solo debut Ain’t We Brothers deservedly made many Best Of lists in 2015 and this is just […]
Videos

Video: Hannah Cohen “Draggin'”

March 12, 2025 0
The new single from Hannah Cohen is an effective blend of a grooving, rhythmic strum with a bright, melodic vocal – a catchy arrangement that pulls you in and gets you moving.  There’s an appealing lightness […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool