Tyler Childers

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Davidson

March 19, 2026 Andy Davidson 2

This is the final AUK writers’ choice of Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time. Watch out for the countdown to the song voted Number 1, coming shortly. I finalised this feature knowing Moses had left […]

Here are the americana and country winners from the 2026 GRAMMYS

February 3, 2026 Mark Whitfield 1

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 48 hours you’ll have seen the extensive coverage of this year’s GRAMMYS which featured the usual array of costumes, curveballs and a healthy-dose of ICE bashing […]

Americana UK’s top 20 albums of 2025: 20-11

December 19, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

So we have reached the end of another year here at AUK and over the last few weeks we as a group of writers have been locked in a dark room until we could reach a […]

Live Review: Tyler Childers + The Magic Numbers + Omni of Halos, O2, London – 15th November 2025

November 25, 2025 Chas Lacey 4

Dressed in a blue sweater and brown Oxford bags, a short-haired and clean-shaven Tyler Childers may not look like the modern country music star. There’s no baseball hat, no obvious tattoos or jewellery and nothing to […]

Tyler Childers announces follow up tour to autumn UK date

September 5, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

7x Grammy-nominated singer-songwriter Tyler Childers will return to the UK and Europe in the spring of 2026 for newly confirmed shows across Dublin, Glasgow, Manchester, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Copenhagen, and Amsterdam. Tickets for his “On the […]

New release from Neal Casal archives due in November

October 6, 2026 0

Book Of Stories (Home Recordings 1998–2003) is a new 12-track collection of previously unreleased songs by Neal Casal, which will be released on 6th November 2026 via the Neal Casal Music Foundation/Blackwing Music/Royal Potato Family. The […]

“A lovely, thoughtful and humorous man” – Americana UK remembers Martin Johnson

October 6, 2026 1

Back in September 2019, I received an email after one of our semi-regular call-outs for new writers to join our team which said: “After 40 years in IT and process outsourcing I am current kicking my […]

Bap Kennedy “Above All, Love”

October 6, 2026 1

Timely release of demos from the late, great Bap Kennedy. In the history of all things Americana, one of the most tragic and sad pieces of news was when one of Ireland’s finest songwriters, Bap Kennedy, […]

Interviews

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, […]

Behind the Songs

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 […]

Tracks

Lambchop “The New World Wave” – a family saga

July 21, 2026 0

The New World Wave, the latest single from the upcoming album Punching The Clown (which will be released on 21 August 2026 via City Slang) is nothing short of a complete family tree described by Kurt […]

News

Mean Mary to tour UK and the EU

August 13, 2018 1

Being the youngest of six children, and being named Mean Mary, didn’t hold back Mary James in the slightest – one would say quite the reverse. Picking up the guitar at the age of 4, making […]

Tracks

Drop Nineteens “Scapa Flow” – shipwreck ahoy!

August 3, 2023 0

Is Shoegaze Americana? There’s a question, and if the answer that springs to mind is “no” well then we invite you to be open minded and to at least consider today’s offering as a partial counter-argument. […]