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Apocalypse Now! Waterboys announce new album and huge UK tour

January 8, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 2

Mike Scott examines pop culture through the lens of the Easy Rider. The Waterboys’ brand new, sixteenth studio album “Life, Death And Dennis Hopper” comes out on the iconic Sun Records on April 4th. The first […]

Classic Clips

Classic Clips: The Waterboys “Fisherman’s Blues” – The Tube, Channel 4, 1986

February 3, 2023 Andy Davidson 1

Just recently, The Americana Music Association UK (AMA-UK) awarded Mike Scott a UK Lifetime Achievement Award. Scott is the creator and front man of The Waterboys. The album ‘Fisherman’s Blues‘ was released in October 1988 and […]

News

UK Americana Week and Awards – 2023 nominations announced

January 13, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

During the official launch at London’s Omeara venue, the Americana Music Association UK (AMA-UK) revealed the nominations for the eight panel and member-voted categories of the UK Americana Awards 2023 and the winners of the coveted […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 55

May 17, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 3

Education way beyond the classroom and whisper it… perhaps more important   Throughout my life in education I have firmly believed that at least 50% of my job as an educator is to enable students to […]

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The Waterboys to release deluxe five CD collection

September 16, 2021 Emily Dongray 0

Chrysalis Records is set to release five cd deluxe set ‘The Magnificent Seven‘ on December 3rd. So named for the number of The Waterboys musicians during this time, the five discs chronicle the eighteen months leading […]

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  • Something for the weekend: Tom Petty “Crawling Back to You”
  • AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – June 2025
  • Danny Horn & The Shared Myths: “The Death of Lucy”
  • Oregon’s Anna Tivel releases new record “Animal Poem” late summer 2025
  • Classic Clips: Rich Hopkins & Luminarios “Paraguay” – Norderstedt, 2019
  • Tift Merritt reissues “Tambourine” along with companion of demos and home recordings
  • Sam Kelly “Dreamers Dawn”
  • Live Review: JP Harris + Jack Browning, The Lexington, London, 3rd June 2025
  • The Wood Brothers “The Trick” – how to live your life
  • Video Premiere: Jim Patton & Sherry Brokus “I Want it All”
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Interview: The Brother Brothers – What’s going on?

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This interview took place just before The Brother Brothers left the US for a tour in Australia, which was cancelled when David Moss passed out while swimming in the surf and nearly drowned. You know we’ve […]

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Interview: Caleb Caudle values endurance and radical empathy

June 3, 2025 0

Caleb Caudle has been making music for longer than you might guess since the night he walked up to an open mic night, sat down and strummed his first chord in a live setting. He sings […]

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Interview: Chatham Rabbits can pull from a hatful of songs

May 28, 2025 1

It’s hard to pin down and stamp a genre like a Notary Public would on Chatham Rabbits. The husband-and-wife duo of Austin and Sarah McCombie started out in bluegrass and old-timey music, but they have taken […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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