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Essentials: The Top 10 Sparklehorse Songs

February 13, 2025 Paul Kerr 4
Sparklehorse, essentially a vehicle for Richmond, Virginia’s Mark Linkous, never achieved huge acclaim over their 15-year career, but they were a critics’ favourite and were well enough recognised to avoid being considered a “cult” band. Linkous […]
Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Paul Kerr

January 11, 2024 Paul Kerr 7
As has been mentioned many times before in this feature, there’s a conundrum at the heart of it. First off, what on earth is americana? Well, for this piece, it’s whatever I decide fits the bill. […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 112

September 22, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
What is Englishness? A state of mind or something more.. As the rugby world cup unfolds and my previous weekend’s activities are considered I find myself thinking about Englishness and national identity. Perhaps not particularly pertinent […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 109

August 18, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
Have I made the right decision … For the first year in a long, long time (pandemic notwithstanding) I will not be attending the End of the Road festival. It has been a regular feature of […]
Features

Let’s unpack the haul…

August 4, 2023 Jonathan Aird 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 […]

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Preview: James Taylor returns to the UK

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July 15, 2026 3

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”

Album Reviews
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Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026

Live Reviews
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Cover art for Max Subar album "Anything Could Be"

Max Subar “Anything Could Be”

Album Reviews
July 15, 2026 2

Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change

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Previews

Preview: James Taylor returns to the UK

July 15, 2026 3
Correction: The original version of this story described James Taylor as arriving in the UK next week, when as one of our readers has pointed out in the comments, he’s already played Scotland and is in […]
Album Reviews

Whiskey Treaty Roadshow “Kept Rising”

July 15, 2026 0
Whiskey Treaty Roadshow proves that Democracy is strongest when it is diverse. It’s hard to pin down Whiskey Treaty Roadshow. They are all over the map, stylistically, and as a collective. Over the course of more […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, British Airways ARC, London – 8th July 2026

July 15, 2026 0
And it’s off to another new venue in London, prestigiously located at Olympia in one of those surprisingly hard to get to parts of London.  Few are the venues that feel the need to post outlying […]

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  • Park Hills Circle “All Of A Sudden” – seasons change
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
Interviews

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3
Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

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Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Judee Sill “The Kiss” Old Grey Whistle Test, 1973

March 10, 2023 4
For this week’s Classic Clip I’d like to travel some fifty years back in time and briefly turn the spotlight on one of L.A.’s finest and most overlooked songwriters of the era as well as one […]
Album Reviews

The Good Lovelies “We Will Never Be The Same”

October 12, 2023 0
Life lessons and harmonies. ‘We Will Never Be The Same’ is the first album of new material from Canada’s The Good Lovelies in five years. Comprising singer-songwriters Caroline Brooks, Kerri Ough and Susan Passmore, they have […]
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Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy to release Merle Haggard covers album – Listen

March 9, 2017 0
You did read that headline correctly. Rolling Stone reports: “Merle Haggard’s influence knew no bounds, attracting fans from all genres of music. That powerful pull has inspired a new album from indie folk-rock artist Bonnie “Prince” […]

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