Well that’s it from us for this week, a week which has felt like a cloud has been hanging over our americana community if ...

A powerful message that’s relayed with the kind of vigour and skill needed to make people sit up and listen. Price gives us her take on the traditional Spanish folk song De Colores, which has notably ...

A heads-down, no-nonsense, sprightly mess of blues. The Texas Headhunters are a three-headed guitar Methuselah consisting of ...

It’s getting into that busy, post-festival part of the year with an impossible number of gigs coming up through the Autumn.

Four-time GRAMMY Award-winning Shooter Jennings has put together a second album of previously unknown songs from his country-superstar father, Waylon Jennings. Same Old Blues features the voice of ...

The works of Dave Alvin will need no introduction to most AUK readers, but I wanted to highlight this particular album. Released in 2004 it takes its name from the famed L.A. nightspot where Alvin and ...

In the long and storied career of the late, great Nanci Griffith, a musical legacy has been left behind that will, in years to come, surely stand the test of time just as much as it does now. As ...

Impressive follow-up to Nothing Lasts Forever, recorded in the Scottish Outer Hebrides. Recording sessions for the 13th Teenage Fanclub album took place on the remote Scottish Outer Hebrides ...

Stuart Anderson concludes our Americana Stories series with The Doubts That Make Us Strong. Stuart says: I’m a retired ...

A dramatic modern-day tale of alienation and its tragic consequences, skilfully and humourously told by an expert storyteller ...

Ah, Lavender Honey, is there anything sweeter and yet so aromatic? Better than clover honey. Élise LeBlanc agrees, it seems, ...

In the truly welcoming and cosy surroundings of Little Rabbit Barn, a venue specialising in live gigs profiling Americana artists (largely) of the highest calibre, your writer had the pleasure of ...