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4 Country Songs That Will Make You Long for Home if You’re From Small-Town America

4 Country Songs That Will Make You Long for Home if You’re From Small-Town America

The 8 Most American Songs Ever Written, From Bruce Springsteen to Don McLean

American history is complicated. So are these all-American hits. From "Born in the U.S.A." to "We Shall Overcome" and "Sweet Home Alabama," these songs encapsulate America in all i...

These 3 Songs by America Still Rock Our World Today

These three classic rock songs by America are so good, they still rock our world today, decades after they were first released. The post These 3 Songs by America Still Rock Our Wor...

These 3 Songs by America Still Rock Our World Today

These three classic rock songs by America are so good, they still rock our world today, decades after they were first released. The post These 3 Songs by America Still Rock Our Wor...

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Railroad Songs

At the remove of two hundred years, it is very hard, if not impossible, to fully comprehend the impact that the expansion of railroads throughout the world had in the 19th and earl...

The Real America?

Perhaps it was for decades held in check...

3 Country Songs That Secretly Influenced 1990s Americana

These incredible country songs had a hand in inspiring Americana musicians, as well as the subgenre's boom, in the 1990s. The post 3 Country Songs That Secretly Influenced 1990s Am...

Lost Radio Rounders Swing into Summer with America 250: Songs & Stories

Albany’s Lost Radio Rounders started 2026 on a high note, with the debut of the musical/historical program America 250: Songs & Stories at the Troy Savings Bank Music Hall this...

Americania saldó una cuenta pendiente 

Tras años de peticiones sin respuesta, la banda que integran Álvaro Casas, Armando Áñez e Ítalo Pizzolante, por fin, cumplió con sus fans, aquellos que han estado con ellos desde e...

Don’t forget our Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more – join us in Liverpool in November!

As we head into the bank holiday weekend, we wanted to remind you about Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK, which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Roug...

4 Country Ballads That Still Bring Crowds to Their Feet Decades Later

This America you heard of

This is not the America I heard of,...

Voices of America Country Music Festival Just Unveiled a Star-Studded Lineup That You Won’t Want to Miss

Voices of America Country Music Fest reveals its 2026 lineup and ticket prices for the four-day Ohio event. The post Voices of America Country Music Festival Just Unveiled a Star-S...

Americana Stories – Coming soon, but there’s still time to submit your story

We will be starting to publish our Americana Stories in June, but the submission deadline is not until the end of August. We have some great work to share with you through the summ...

Marisa Anderson’s (Tunefully) Un-American Activities

The guitarist mined the scholar Harry Smith’s LP collection, recording her takes on songs rooted in regions the United States has been in conflict with since 1970.

A reminder of our call for short fiction: Americana stories…

AUK would like to invite fiction writers to submit short stories inspired by the world of americana music for publication on Americana UK. Whether it’s a tale sparked by a particul...

Classic Patriotic Outfits for Summer: Americana-Inspired Styles We Love

Yesterday we announced our 1776 Family Book Club (and are blown away by the response!) and today we are keeping with getting in the 250th birthday spirit with classic Americana out...

Joseph Turner & The Dudes of Hazard – Travelin’ Heart

Everyone needs some good, old, Americana-inspired alt-country music here and there. Whatever music genre you prefer, alt-country music

Andy Hedges – The Westerner

It used to be called country & western. Then two or three decades ago, for reasons I’m sure the ethnographers still debate, it just became country music. Western just sort of s...

Don’t forget our Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more – join us in Liverpool in November!

As usual, we wanted to remind you about Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK, which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting...

Americana Honors & Awards Unveils 2026 Nominees: Brandi Carlile, I’m With Her, S.G. Goodman, Margo Price, Tyler Chil...

Brandi Carlile, photo by Bill Kelly The Americana Music Association has unveiled the nominees for its 25th annual Americana Honors & Awards ceremony. In a celebration of the ma...

Make Americana Great Again: Deus Ex Musica

Some years ago, the director Alex Garland made a movie with a title similar to this column, except it was Ex Machina, not Musica, which I’m guessing is the Latin word for “music.”...

America the Brave

16‑year‑old Emiliana Korin traces the journey from leaving Venezuela to finding a civic voice in the US, arguing that American identity is shaped not by paperwork but by participat...