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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Paul Kerr

October 9, 2025 Paul Kerr 2

Jeez! You sign up to Americana UK, thinking you’re on the road to hobnobbing with the stars in the VIP area at gigs, and then you’re thrown a curveball. Your top ten americana songs? First off, […]

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Emily Nenni announces UK tour dates and new video

April 15, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Emily Nenni previously announced the release of her latest release ‘Drive & Cry’ which arrives via New West Records on 3rd May, and now she has set up some initial UK headlining dates in support of […]

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Terry Allen and the Panhandle Mystery Band to reissue two back catalogue classics

April 7, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Label Paradise of Bachelors has announced deluxe reissues of internationally celebrated songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen‘s albums ‘Smokin the Dummy‘ (1980) and ‘Bloodlines‘ (1983). These comprise the label’s sixth and seventh releases by Allen and the […]

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Interview:  Darden Smith on why songs by themselves aren’t enough to explain Western Skies

March 24, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

How an old Polaroid and the pandemic helped reinvigorate a thirty-plus-year career. Austin-based songwriter Darden Smith has always done things his way, rather than following the norms of the music business. Texas-born Smith came to Austin […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: Terry Allen “Amarillo Highway”

February 21, 2022 Clint West 1

Having spent the last two weeks in Australia courtesy of The Triffids and Kasey Chambers, I’ve decided to steer the ship back into more familiar americana waters. Indeed nowhere could be more familiar to lovers of […]

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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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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Beau Jennings & The Tigers “Heavy Light”

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A meaningful album about looking back on life’s crossroads and looking for the light-filled path. Only a few months since the release of his EP ‘Feel the Sun’ with his band The Tigers, Oklahoma’s Beau Jennings […]

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Track Premiere: Maygen & The Birdwatcher “Hat Man Blues”

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Have you ever had the ‘Hat Man Blues‘?  Maygen & The Birdwatcher, the Minnesota based bluegrass influenced band certainly have.  But, perhaps it’s not a concept that you’re familiar with – well the band’s Noah Neumann […]

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