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Americana Stories – John Jenkins “Just One of Those Nights”
4+ day, 21+ hour ago (713+ words) One of these days, I’ll get around to telling my story, the whole sweep of my life experiences. I won’t be telling it because I’m famous. I’m not. Am I known? Not really. So why burden anyone with the story…...
The Luck of the Draw: AUK reader Les Bright enjoys his weekend at The Cambridge Folk Festival
2+ week, 1+ day ago (267+ words) So, Mark’s message telling me that I had won was very welcome, and within minutes I sent a WhatsApp to my friend Toby: “What are you doing on 1st August?” The festival had a year off in 2025, following unsustainably large losses…...
Mary Gauthier “Alcohol and Adderall” – addiction blues
1+ week, 6+ day ago (306+ words) Americana UK The thing is that Mary Gauthier knows what she’s talking about on the latest single from her upcoming album Reckoning, which is released September 25th on Soundly/Thirty Tigers. Not that this song, which those who caught her last…...
Live Review: Cambridge Folk Festival, Cherry Hinton Hall, Cambridge – 1st-2nd August 2026
2+ week, 5+ day ago (1723+ words) Americana UK There was something wonderfully appropriate about arriving at Cherry Hinton Hall for the return of the Cambridge Folk Festival and immediately finding myself wondering what, exactly, folk music is in 2026. One of the pleasures of Cambridge is that…...
Interview: Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester on why “It’s A Joy To Be Alive”
3+ week, 5+ day ago (1632+ words) Americana UK One thing everyone quickly learns as they get older is that time waits for no one, and that life continues its unstoppable flow forward. Americana UK has followed Ferris & Sylvester’s career since their first album, as they built…...
Video: Genevieve & Milo “Slow” – an acceptance of the best and worst of ourselves
2+ week, 6+ day ago (209+ words) Genevieve & Milo, a duo from Cape Town, South Africa, have released a haunting new single. Slow is a gorgeously absorbing song that begins with a warm acoustic strum before Genevieve’s dreamy, resonant voice transports us far away. Her voice is…...
Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the weird in outlaw country music
3+ week, 23+ hour ago (935+ words) As their bio reads, “Nora Kelly Band is a Montreal-based alt-country band that’s sure to steal your heart and your mule.” The band channels their rebellious spirit with So Wrong For So Long (Mint Records, 2026), their second full studio album…...
Preview: The Long Road Festival of Country, Americana and Roots, 27th-30th August Stanford Hall Leicestershire
3+ week, 4+ day ago (134+ words) Sticking with home grown talent don’t miss harmonica great Errol Linton’s set opening on the Interstate on Sunday, and Kezia Gill’s set on the Rhinestone on Sunday. You’d be sorry to miss Jonny Morgan and the Moral Support at the…...
Margo Cilker “Little White Cross” – unplanned ends for reckless actions
3+ week, 4+ day ago (296+ words) Americana UK Here’s an unexpected bonus for the Track section – the relentless wrestle between videos and tracks has allowed the realm of sound to also sometimes claim performance videos. You do not need to ask us twice when it comes…...
Anniversary Cheers: “Buena Vista Social Club” celebrates 30 years
3+ week, 4+ day ago (1189+ words) Americana UK World Circuit Records, celebrating 40 years, reissues world music’s most iconic album for its 30th birthday. The 1990s were the pinnacle of CD sales and of commercial popular music, and the listening public was therefore more willing to take on board…...