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The Sharp Flatpickers “Red Haired Boy” – Listen

February 11, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Red Haired Boy‘ is one of those folk tunes that left these shores and crossed the water and has fallen, this time, into the hands of Lee Kotick’s new powerhouse group, The Sharp Flatpickers.  They recorded […]

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“The spirit of Americana UK” – our writing team remembers Paul Kerr

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The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Fred Arnold

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Album artwork. An old locomotive moves through railroad tracks below a large moon. The caption reads Bill Scorzari, Sidereal Days (Day 2)

Bill Scorzari “Sidereal Days (Day 2)”

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Live Review: The Annie Keating Band + The Dreaming Spires, Little Rabbit Barn, Ardleigh, Colchester – 2nd October 2026

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The Brothers Gillespie “Kingfisher”

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Features

“The spirit of Americana UK” – our writing team remembers Paul Kerr

October 8, 2026 0
It’s been a sad time for us here in the AUK community with the loss of two of our writers in such a short period of time, and the loss of our Live Reviews Editor for […]
Features

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Fred Arnold

October 8, 2026 0
It’s the third in the new Feature, seeking out the best americana album by a UK artist, and Fred Arnold throws his hat in the ring this week What a challenge is this? – as a […]
Album artwork. An old locomotive moves through railroad tracks below a large moon. The caption reads Bill Scorzari, Sidereal Days (Day 2)
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Bill Scorzari “Sidereal Days (Day 2)”

October 8, 2026 0
Part two of Bill Scorzari’s double-album project has him weaving from love lost to love kept and on the go. Bill Scorzari is a former New York trial lawyer with a Walt Whitman beard that extends […]

  • “The spirit of Americana UK” – our writing team remembers Paul Kerr
  • The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Fred Arnold
  • Bill Scorzari “Sidereal Days (Day 2)”
  • Live Review: The Annie Keating Band + The Dreaming Spires, Little Rabbit Barn, Ardleigh, Colchester – 2nd October 2026
  • The Brothers Gillespie “Kingfisher”
  • Americana Stories – Stuart Anderson “The Doubts That Make Us Strong”
  • The Male Pattern “I Was Shot In The Heart”
  • Élise LeBlanc “Lavender Honey” – honkey-tonk romance
  • Video Premiere: Wyatt Lowe “Deserts” – Let me lay down and rest
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  • Peter Thompson: Hi Fred, Thanks for giving this amazing record (and its 20th Anniversary) version, the review it deserves. As a 'deluxe'…
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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
Interviews

Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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Video: Pavey Ark “Cuckoo”

April 6, 2020 0
Let’s begin the week with a chorus that came to Pavey Ark’s song-writer, Neil Thomas, in the middle of a dream shortly after Donald Trump’s inauguration.  Thomas explains: “In the dream, I was floating over a map […]
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Her to Hymn: Chrissie Hynde announces album of Dylan covers

May 12, 2021 2
Chrissie Hynde has announced the release of a new album of Bob Dylan covers, the Pretenders singer announced on Monday. Entitled ‘Standing in the Doorway: Chrissie Hynde Sings Bob Dylan’, the album will be out very […]
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Taylor Young Band “Mercury Transit”

October 21, 2021 0
Texas folk artist Taylor Young turns up the tempo but relaxes the vibe. The Taylor Young Band is from the 90s, and it never left. Timewarp is a concept that Americana and Country have never had […]

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