Features
Seasons greetings from Americana UK
That’s it from us for this year dear readers. Thanks for all your support over the last 12 months which have been the busiest year yet for AUK in the sixteen years of our existence. (I […]
Month: December 2017
Features
The votes have been counted! Here are the AUK readers poll 2017 results
So here we are again as Peter Cetera sang to Cher back in 1989 – another year over, another end of year AUK poll and YOU have been hoovering up americana like nobody’s business, but with […]
Political Pops
Pick of the Political Pops: The Kinks “Father Christmas”
At Americana-UK Towers we are somewhat divided about the festive season. The opportunities for falling out with each other are manifold – the correct ratio of gin to Campari to vermouth in our Negronis, whether sprouts […]
Album Reviews
Ange Hardy “Bring Back Home” (Story Records, 2017)
A turbulent and sometimes tragic childhood was the prelude to 14-year-old Ange Hardy running away from a children’s home in Somerset and finding herself homeless on the streets of Ireland. Handed a guitar as a chance […]
Album Reviews
Dan Michaelson “First Light” (The state51 Conspiracy, 2017)
First Light is an album of elegant music which serves as a frame for Dan Michaelson’s distinctive cracked and battered vocals – like a canvas sail hauled out for another use in the face of an […]