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What Is This Americana Thing Anyway…

June 20, 2019 Paul Villers 0
It’s that time again when the great and the good of Americana-UK ‘fess up and tell it like it is in their individual journeys into the genre we all know and love. This week Ben Roberts […]
News

The Band’s “Music From the Big Pink” gets 50th anniversary re-release

July 2, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
On July 1, 1968, The Band’s landmark debut album ‘Music from Big Pink’ seemed to spring from nowhere and everywhere. Drawing from the American roots music panoply of country, blues, R&B, gospel, soul, rockabilly, the honking […]
News

Robbie Robertson – people told us: “You’re americana”

June 6, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
A nice little piece up in Rolling Stone Country today where they talk to The Band’s Robbie Robertson about a number of things including his former band’s influence in creating the “americana” genre despite being Canadian. […]

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case/lang/veirs

Anniversary Cheers: case/lang/veirs celebrates 10 years

Anniversary Cheers
September 3, 2026 0

Alex Dupree “Talking To The Dog”

Album Reviews
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Thunder and Rain, live at the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey - 28th August 2026

Live Review: Thunder and Rain, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 28th August 2026

Live Reviews
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Track Premiere: Jaspar Lepak “On The Inside”

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Video: Cole Gallagher “Chatting Through Steel (Revisited)” ft. David Hidalgo

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case/lang/veirs
Anniversary Cheers

Anniversary Cheers: case/lang/veirs celebrates 10 years

September 3, 2026 0
Outstanding one-off album is re-released together with an album of live tracks from the tour that accompanied the album, plus a new song (on vinyl and CD). case/lang/veirs was released in 2016. In keeping with the […]
Album Reviews

Alex Dupree “Talking To The Dog”

September 3, 2026 0
Allow yourself to be captivated by a master musician’s vivid imagination. There’s always a hope that listening to a new album will take the listener to a place they hadn’t been to before. Through inspired music […]
Thunder and Rain, live at the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey - 28th August 2026
Live Reviews

Live Review: Thunder and Rain, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 28th August 2026

September 3, 2026 0
As I travelled to this evening’s show through the Lincolnshire countryside, the consequences of this long, hot summer were visible as far as the eye could see. In place of the “green and pleasant land” so […]

  • Anniversary Cheers: case/lang/veirs celebrates 10 years
  • Alex Dupree “Talking To The Dog”
  • Live Review: Thunder and Rain, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 28th August 2026
  • Track Premiere: Jaspar Lepak “On The Inside”
  • Video: Cole Gallagher “Chatting Through Steel (Revisited)” ft. David Hidalgo
  • After a four-year break, Rayland Baxter will release latest album in October
  • Dom Glynn and His Sunday Best “This Fast Life Is Killing Me”
  • Nick Mitchell Maiato “Naquera”
  • Jack Barksdale “The Scam Song” – seem’s ok and above board…
  • Video Premiere: Scott Cook “Steady For You”
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  • Jonathan Aird: Glad you liked it - the tribute album is going to be a must-get.
  • William Frazier: I caught a Bronwyn show Friday at Nashville's 3rd & Lindsley venue. Among the tunes I recall her playing were…
  • David Cohen: Love it! This band will go far, mark my words.

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Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
Interviews

Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 1
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers “Pacific Coast Rambler”

August 3, 2022 0
When the first Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers album appeared in 1997 it was praised in places like Mojo as a return to ex-Jayhawk, Mark Olson’s folk and country roots. The story of Olson, his then wife […]
Album Reviews

Dia del Mercado “Another Clumsey Mile” (Root and Branch Recordings, 2017)

October 17, 2017 0
Tumbleweeds roll through a dusty town, the barroom doors clatter back and forth in the wind and the Ennio Morricone soundtrack rattles with a raucous choir. It’s not, however, a cheroot chewing man with no name […]
Videos

Video: Vicki Peterson & John Cowsill “Is Anybody Here”

May 7, 2025 0
Recent single from Americana duo Vicki Peterson and John Cowsill, ‘Is Anybody Here’, is an engaging, melodic song built around the interplay of the pair’s guitars and their voices, which work together beautifully.  The single appears on […]

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