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Something for the weekend: Lord Huron “Looking Back”

5 days ago | americana-uk.com | Mark Whitfield

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, and it’s good to be back after my Colombia travails although I do miss the feeling of being in a country governed by someone who feels vaguely relatable. You win some! We leave you this week with a new song by a band we haven’t featured for ages here on AUK – Lord Huron who have a new album out in July, more details next week.
Our new supporters playlist comes out today - win tickets to see The Devil Makes Three live

6 days ago | americana-uk.com | Mark Whitfield

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Brown Horse, Kassi Valazza, Dawn Brothers, Mike Delevante, The Waterboys with Steve Earle and Joshua Burnside – as always we trawl through the best Americana we’ve heard recently so you don’t have to.
Julie Fowlis to play 20th anniversary shows in October and November

6 days ago | americana-uk.com | Keith Hargreaves

It’s twenty years since Gaelic singer, musician and composer Julie Fowlis released her debut album “mar a tha mo chridhe (as my heart is)“, and her music is still deeply rooted in the coastal edges and wide skies of the Highlands and Hebridean Islands of Scotland which her songs conjure in vivid detail. She is known for making a musical map of the North, drawing in history, folklore and the intimate ecology of places she knows.
Arren “Broken” - talking might help

6 days ago | americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird

Today is definitely an eyebrow raising day as we introduce the new song from ARREN. ARREN is a Dublin-based, Clare/Limerick-born artist who aims to bring the anthemic scale of iconic ’90s and 2000s pop-rock into the intimacy of singer-songwriter and who says that he draws inspiration from the likes of Radiohead, Oasis, Mumford & Sons, Hudson Taylor, and U2. We can, even at this remove, hear the sharp intake of breathe from some quarters. Don’t worry – we wouldn’t sell you a bad one.
Folk Roundup - Gwilym Bowen Rhys, Wise Woman, Flook, Iona Lane, Passengers & Pioneers Project

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird

The latest Folk Roundup is a pretty mixed bag on what we (loosely) call Folk music, with the welcome return of a long-serving – but relatively small outputting – band in the form of Flook, as well as what seems to be becoming a regular Welsh contribution to the column. Good. And there’s what we might call “cultured” folk with carefully crafted harmonies which sit a long way from traditional sounds. And a concept album on the theme of trains.
Video: I’m With Her “Standing on the Fault Line”

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Ed Donnelly |Marc Cohn |Jools Holland |Gladys Knight

Roots music supergroup I’m With Her explore lost dreams in their new song ‘Standing on the Fault Line’. This is the latest single from their forthcoming album “Wild, Clear and Blue”. Group member Sara Watkins reflects on the origins of the song,“‘Fault Line’ came from thinking about Los Angeles as a very transient place where many people feel a tension between whether to stick it out and stay or pack up and move on,” says Watkins, co-founder of Grammy-winning bluegrass powerhouse Nickel Creek.
Track Premiere: Anne Harris “I Feel Alright”

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird

We can thank Topol for today’s track premiere – as Anne Harris was inspired as a child to take up the violin after watching ‘Fiddler On The Roof‘. We don’t know if she has herself ever played on a roof (it seems quite likely though), but we do now that on May 23rd she’ll be playing at the Grand Ole Opry backing up Taj Mahal and Keb’ Mo’.
AUK Back Pages No. 14

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Paul Kerr

And it’s Happy New Year once again as we hop into 2009 with a new CD cover design (maintained throughout the year but in varying shades of welcoming colours). Not so happy is the fact that the Wayback Machine, our source for much of the archived material we’ve unearthed in previous Back Pages, seems to think that 2009 never happened. There are a couple of entries for the first few months but after that, zip all. Nevertheless, we plough on.
The Swell Season move “Forward” in June

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Keith Hargreaves

The Swell Season (Glen Hansard and Markéta Irglová) have announced their first new album in 16 years, “Forward”, will be released on June 13th. An eight-song collection, it was produced by Sturla Mio Thorisson and recorded at his and Irglova’s Masterkey Studios in Iceland alongside original Swell Season musicians Marja Gaynor and Bertrand Galen (strings) and Joseph Doyle (bass) and newcomer Piero Perelli (drums and percussion).
Ella Spencer “Scotty’s Tyres” - not messing around…

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Jonathan Aird

‘Scotty’s Tyres‘ is the new single from up-and-coming British-American singer-songwriter Ella Spencer, co-produced by Jerry Joseph and Steve Drizos at The Panther studio in Portland, Oregon and released on Right Track Records. It’s a co-write with Canadian Poesy, and originated with just a melody line as Ella Spencer describes: “The title ‘Scotty’s Tyres’ originated from a voice memo I took of the melody of the first line, which my phone automatically named as I walked past my local tyre shop.