Americana UK

Sarah McQuaid shares dates for extensive North Europe and UK tours

February 16, 2026 0

Sarah McQuaid certainly works hard and has just announced an extensive spring-summer EU and UK tour which, to her credit, takes in many places that are outside the main touring circuit. The sets on the dates […]

Willie Nelson Live at the Welmont Theatre, Montclair, NJ on May 17th, 2012

Anniversary Cheers – Willie Nelson’s “Country Music” celebrates a 15 year re-release

February 16, 2026 0

Willie’s 2010 release gets a re-boot with a multi-colour 2-disc gatefold vinyl release, plus CD and hi-res streaming options. In the heady days of 2010, Willie Nelson, country and roots singer par excellence, decided to record […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 221 “Bubbling Under”

February 16, 2026 0

Occasionally, our Editor Mark, here at AUK, sends out requests for writers to join the team. This is how I ended up writing this column; I answered a call to arms back in 2004. So what […]

Magoo “Can’t You Hear That Train” – woo-woo, chuff-chuff

February 16, 2026 0

Here’s a quandary to contemplate – if Magoo are a progressive bluegrass band, and they do seem to be such, how come the train they sing about on Can’t You Hear That Train is producing a […]

Video Premiere: Ian Roland “Virtually Free” – Driving in harder, horizontal rain

February 16, 2026 0

Be absorbed by the video premiere of UK singer-songwriter Ian Roland’s first single of 2026, ‘Virtually Free’. At the heart of the song are the rich, warm tones of Roland’s twelve-string guitar. Roland’s band contribute excellent […]

Features
For The Sake Of The Song: Cowboy Junkies “Sweet Jane”
The TV series Stranger Things has become a place for songs of all sorts to find a new place in the sun. Kate Bush’s Running Up That Hill and Peter Gabriel’s cover of Heroes amongst [...]
Anniversary Cheers
Anniversary Cheers – Willie Nelson’s “Country Music” celebrates a 15 year re-release
Willie’s 2010 release gets a re-boot with a multi-colour 2-disc gatefold vinyl release, plus CD and hi-res streaming options. In the heady days of 2010, Willie Nelson, country and roots singer par excellence, decided to [...]
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Tom Russell “The Last Time I Saw Hank” – Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, 16th September 2017
Tom Russell is one of the great Americana troubadours with a back-catalogue that goes yay far, all the way back to 1976 and numbering 29 studio albums. This song is from the 2017’s “Folk Hotel” [...]
Features
Top Ten Americana Songs Of All Time: Keith Hargreaves
There have been several commendable efforts in this series before now, but the time has come for the definitive list. Each track is both a representative of a strand of listening within the genre, as [...]
Interviews
Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”
If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the [...]

Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Kentucky Too Long”

February 13, 2026 1

Well, that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you with new music – again, the man is like a singles conveyor belt – from critically acclaimed country iconoclast Charley Crockett. In his brand new […]

Love – is it all there is?

February 13, 2026 0

You know by now that we never miss a chance to have a themed Track special if we possibly can, and what could be more special than Valentine’s Day with all that it entails? It offers […]

Classic Clips: Tom Russell “The Last Time I Saw Hank” – Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, 16th September 2017

February 13, 2026 1

Tom Russell is one of the great Americana troubadours with a back-catalogue that goes yay far, all the way back to 1976 and numbering 29 studio albums. This song is from the 2017’s “Folk Hotel” and […]

Book Review: Jay Nachman with Graham Parker and The Rumour “Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind”

February 13, 2026 0

A bridge of sorts between the faded pub rock scene and the about-to-emerge punk explosion, Graham Parker’s debut album “Howlin’ Wind” was an extraordinary debut, which saw the singer/songwriter lauded at the time. Sounding like an […]

Preview: Blues guitarist extraordinaire Samantha Fish heads to UK for dates

February 13, 2026 1

As regular readers will know, our delicate ears can’t cope with too much noise these days but one artist we are prepared to turn our hearing-aids up for is Kansas City, Missouri’s Samantha Smith who in […]

Magoo “Can’t You Hear That Train” – woo-woo, chuff-chuff
February 16, 2026 0
Here’s a quandary to contemplate – if Magoo are a progressive bluegrass band, and they do seem to be such, how come the train they sing about on Can’t You Hear That Train is producing [...]
Video Premiere: Ian Roland “Virtually Free” – Driving in harder, horizontal rain
February 16, 2026 0
Be absorbed by the video premiere of UK singer-songwriter Ian Roland’s first single of 2026, ‘Virtually Free’. At the heart of the song are the rich, warm tones of Roland’s twelve-string guitar. Roland’s band contribute [...]
Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Kentucky Too Long”
February 13, 2026 1
Well, that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you with new music – again, the man is like a singles conveyor belt – from critically acclaimed country iconoclast Charley Crockett. In his brand [...]
Love – is it all there is?
February 13, 2026 0
You know by now that we never miss a chance to have a themed Track special if we possibly can, and what could be more special than Valentine’s Day with all that it entails? It [...]
Track Premiere: Eric Brandt “Size Of Diamonds”
February 13, 2026 0
Eric Brandt has notched up nearly 30 years of releasing music, predominantly with the band The Urban Hillbilly Quartet, but he also has four solo albums to his name and it’s the latest, Folksinger, that [...]

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