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Album Reviews

Laura Veirs “Laura Veirs and the Choir Who Couldn’t Say (Live In Angoulême)”

October 7, 2025 Peter Thompson 0
This collaboration between Laura Veirs and a French school choir offers a different perspective on songs from Veirs’ back catalogue. Don’t you just love an album with a fascinating back story? Well, this album has one […]

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Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”

Tracks
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Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September

News
July 31, 2026 0

Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

Features
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There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday

Previews
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Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981

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Tracks

Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”

July 31, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from case/lang/veirs who have this week shared their cover of Patti Smith’s track People Have The Power which […]
News

Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September

July 31, 2026 0
London-based singer-songwriter Jack Browning will release his sophomore album, Painted Skies, on September 16th via Too Fine Records. The twelve-song collection follows Browning’s signing to the Nashville label earlier this year and arrives after two years […]
Features

Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”

July 31, 2026 0
The next Americana Story comes from one of our own. Rick Bayles escaped the UK to live in the Dordogne region of France, and from there he reports back through his monthly Vox Continental column, sharing […]

  • Something for the weekend: case/lang/veirs “People Have The Power”
  • Jack Browning to release his long awaited second album in September
  • Americana Stories – Rick Bayles “The Little Shop of Hollers”
  • There’s a joyful festival to be Found in Buckingham on the August bank holiday
  • Classic Clips: Stevie Nicks & Tom Petty “Stop Draggin’ My Heart Around” – Studio Recording, 1981
  • Jason McNiff “Ten Blue Songs”
  • Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 3rd-5th July 2026
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  • The latest Americana UK podcast now available featuring Haylie Davis and Leeroy Stagger
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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 […]
Interviews

Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Video: Cowboy Junkies “Mountain Stream (The Angel)”

October 2, 2018 0
From their latest album All That Reckoning,out now and  their first for six years, this is a wonderful song from Canada’s Cowboy Junkies and a great video too.  There are also three UK dates in November.
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Interviews

Interview: For the record, Mickelson states if you can’t be right be loud

September 13, 2024 0
The UNarmed American fires a shot he hopes will be heard ‘round the world. In early 2025, two hundred and fifty years after Ralph Waldo Emerson wrote the immortal line, “the shot heard ‘round the world,” […]
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Features

The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Johnson & Finnemore

November 3, 2025 0
Welcome to the fourth year of Twang Factor, where Americana UK sets out to find the best new and emerging americana acts. Got talent? This is the place to show us what you’ve got. Our next contestant […]

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