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Anniversary Cheers: Dave Alvin “Blackjack David” celebrates 28 years

October 14, 2026 2

Dave Alvin’s Blackjack David, one of the great americana albums and now with added tracks, gets the Craft Recordings treatment. Hightone Records and Craft Recordings, celebrating its 40th anniversary, are in the process of re-releasing iconic […]

Remedy Tree “Train To Folkston” – we’re not in Kent anymore…

October 14, 2026 0

Remedy Tree is that relatively rare thing: a Florida-based Americana band rooted in bluegrass, old-time, and folk traditions. And today’s song sees them leaning into the bluegrass side of the band, which was founded in 2015 […]

Video: Jack Barksdale “Battleground” Feat. Julian Taylor – the ills of money, power and influence

October 14, 2026 0

Texan multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jack Barksdale is immensely talented, delivering powerful performances on guitar, harmonica, mandolin, piano and more. Battleground is a song that showcases his fine instrumental work, while also displaying the intensity of his […]

More People Really Should Know About: Roseanne Reid

October 13, 2026 1

Born and raised in Edinburgh but now based in Dundee, Roseanne Reid is the daughter of Craig Reid, who, with his twin brother Charlie, formed the duo The Proclaimers in 1983. With two albums and a […]

Live Review: Emilia Quinn + Sophie Rose + Finola, Thornton Hough Village Club, Wirral – 25th September 2026

October 13, 2026 0

Upstairs in the green room at Thornton Hough Village Club, a men-only club until 2005, three women rehearse a collaboration that will later blow the audience away. They are Finola, Sophie Rose, and the headline act […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Mary Chapin Carpenter
Mary Chapin Carpenter is one of those artists who sets the bar very high when it comes to recorded output. Not for her the experimental path of, say, Lou Reed’s Metal Machine Music or Neil [...]
Anniversary Cheers
Anniversary Cheers: Dave Alvin “Blackjack David” celebrates 28 years
Dave Alvin’s Blackjack David, one of the great americana albums and now with added tracks, gets the Craft Recordings treatment. Hightone Records and Craft Recordings, celebrating its 40th anniversary, are in the process of re-releasing [...]
Features
More People Really Should Know About: Roseanne Reid
Born and raised in Edinburgh but now based in Dundee, Roseanne Reid is the daughter of Craig Reid, who, with his twin brother Charlie, formed the duo The Proclaimers in 1983. With two albums and [...]
Interviews
Interview: Wesley Stace “I’m never satisfied with my artistic output”
Since his birth in Sussex in 1965, Wesley Stace has become a man of all colours, releasing 21 albums (17 under the nom de auteur-interprète John Wesley Harding), writing four books, organising the Cabinet of [...]
Features
For The Sake Of The Song: Chris Stapleton “Traveller”
Our esteemed editor has labelled Chris Stapleton as the Marmite of artists for the writers here at Americana UK. It may be that our readers likewise fall into two camps and it took me a [...]

Interview: Wesley Stace “I’m never satisfied with my artistic output”

October 13, 2026 0

Since his birth in Sussex in 1965, Wesley Stace has become a man of all colours, releasing 21 albums (17 under the nom de auteur-interprète John Wesley Harding), writing four books, organising the Cabinet of Wonders […]

Record Store Day, Black Friday 2026 – here’s some of what’s on offer

October 13, 2026 3

Each year, Record Store Day arrives with an avalanche of releases on a whole variety of media. Generally produced in relatively small quantities and invariably described in terms of their exclusivity and collectability, they present a […]

The Talking Hearts “You Didn’t Make Me Cry” – I ask you, friend, what’s a fella to do?

October 13, 2026 0

It sounds like it’s heading down a sassy bluegrass route when it starts out, but the quickly appearing pedal steel of band member Alex Formento shows that The Talking Hearts are heading into some kind of […]

Video: Bess Atwell “The Act” – I can do this alone

October 13, 2026 0

Here is the video for the wonderfully catchy and memorable The Act by UK artist Bess Atwell. This is contemporary dream-folk at its finest. Over ethereal sonic layers and a compelling rhythm, Atwell’s voice is gorgeously, […]

Billy Bragg & Wilco’s “Mermaid Avenue” project returns with expanded “The Complete Sessions”

October 12, 2026 0

Nearly thirty years after Billy Bragg and Wilco first came together to give voice to a collection of previously unheard Woody Guthrie lyrics, Craft Recordings will release Mermaid Avenue: The Complete Sessions on 11th December 2026, […]

Remedy Tree “Train To Folkston” – we’re not in Kent anymore…
October 14, 2026 0
Remedy Tree is that relatively rare thing: a Florida-based Americana band rooted in bluegrass, old-time, and folk traditions. And today’s song sees them leaning into the bluegrass side of the band, which was founded in [...]
Video: Jack Barksdale “Battleground” Feat. Julian Taylor – the ills of money, power and influence
October 14, 2026 0
Texan multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Jack Barksdale is immensely talented, delivering powerful performances on guitar, harmonica, mandolin, piano and more. Battleground is a song that showcases his fine instrumental work, while also displaying the intensity of [...]
The Talking Hearts “You Didn’t Make Me Cry” – I ask you, friend, what’s a fella to do?
October 13, 2026 0
It sounds like it’s heading down a sassy bluegrass route when it starts out, but the quickly appearing pedal steel of band member Alex Formento shows that The Talking Hearts are heading into some kind [...]
Video: Bess Atwell “The Act” – I can do this alone
October 13, 2026 0
Here is the video for the wonderfully catchy and memorable The Act by UK artist Bess Atwell. This is contemporary dream-folk at its finest. Over ethereal sonic layers and a compelling rhythm, Atwell’s voice is [...]
The Chapin Sisters “One Little Drop” – watching the money trickle down
October 12, 2026 0
There are any number of pernicious economic lies, but perhaps the greatest one is “it’s ok for me to be a multi-billionaire because it all trickles down through the people I employ and the purchases I make.” [...]

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