The Secret Sisters

AMERICANAFEST announces additions to Festival lineup

August 7, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

The AMERICANAFEST lineup now offers nearly 200 official showcasing artists appearing at the festival in Nashville from September 9-13, 2025, with the addition of Dwight Yoakam and The Secret Sisters, along with special events Honky Tonkin’ […]

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 20-11

December 19, 2024 Mark Whitfield 2

So we have reached the end of another year here at AUK and the bombardment of new music has once again been relentless – we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up […]

Interview: The Secret Sisters Laura Rogers and Lydia Slagle talk about “Mind, Man, Medicine”

May 21, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

The songwriting influence of motherhood and going back home to The Shoals to record. The Secret Sisters have grown up and come home, and their new album, ‘Mind, Man, Medicine’, is the tangible proof of this. […]

artwork for The Secret Sisters album "Mind, Man, Medicine"

The Secret Sisters “Mind, Man, Medicine”

April 9, 2024 Graeme Tait 2

Sisters from Alabama stay close to home for their fifth offering that sees a shift in perspective with an album immersed in the present. Four years on from the release of the Grammy-nominated album ‘Saturn Return’ […]

Video: The Secret Sisters “All the Ways” Feat. Ray Lamontagne

March 12, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0

On the latest single from The Secret Sisters, Laura Rogers and Lydia Slagle are joined by their friend Ray Lamontagne. He was the first artist to invite the duo out on tour a decade ago and […]

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0

At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

August 7, 2026 0

A powerful message that’s relayed with the kind of vigour and skill needed to make people sit up and listen. “In his oval room, in his rockin’ chair / He’s the president, but I don’t care […]

Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012

August 7, 2026 1

Of all the recent musicians we have sadly lost in recent times, the tragic news of the passing of Raul Malo last year was one of the most gut-wrenching for me. He was only 60 years […]

Interviews

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 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 […]

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 […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Calexico “Feast Of Wire”

August 17, 2023 0

It’s hard to believe that it’s 20 years since Calexico released ‘Feast Of Wire‘, its themes remain as relevant and as prescient as ever: people crossing the border into the US from Mexico, the homeless and […]

Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: The Black Crowes

October 15, 2025 4

Again, we look deep into the mirror and ask the question about an artist’s back catalogue, “If you had to reject one, which would it be, and which one would you fight to keep?”. Choosing The […]

Album Reviews

Billy Wylder “Strike The Match” (Sand & Gold Records, 2018)

September 28, 2018 0

Billy Wylder is the songwriting project of Avi Salloway who was a touring member of African Tuareg/desert rock band Bombino for years. Salloway’s social and environmental activism has taken him across Africa, the Middle East, the […]

AMERICANAFEST announces additions to Festival lineup

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 20-11

Interview: The Secret Sisters Laura Rogers and Lydia Slagle talk about “Mind, Man, Medicine”

The Secret Sisters “Mind, Man, Medicine”

Video: The Secret Sisters “All the Ways” Feat. Ray Lamontagne

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012

The Wild High “Listen to The Wild High”

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