2018 – Americana UK

Happy Christmas from all of us at Americana UK

December 21, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s a wrap from us for this year dear AUK readers. Thanks for all your support over the last 12 months, whether it’s been being a monthly supporter, subscribing to our daily email or just […]

The 2018’s Americana UK readers’ poll results are here!

December 21, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

So here we go again – the last day of term and it’s prize day at Americana UK Towers. It was a classic year for americana in the UK, a year in which you actually had […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Aimee Mann “I Was Thinking I Could Clean Up For Christmas”

December 21, 2018 Paul Villers 0

Well, gosh darn it, it appears to be that time of year again. Here at Americana-UK Towers we are as divided about the festive season as a country pondering Brexit. There are those of us, The […]

Gregory Alan Isakov “Dark, Dark, Dark” – Listen

December 21, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

This is the last Tracks feature of the year, so we wanted to go out with something which captured the mood of the year and this last month or so in particular. So, Gregory Alan Isakov has […]

Straw Bear “Fiction” (Independent, 2018)

December 21, 2018 Tim Merricks 0

Straw Bear named their band after a “bizarre” festival in the home counties during which a single participant is dressed as yep, a straw bear, in celebration of the start of the agricultural year. This says more […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 2

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

Ad for American Beauty album 5th December 1970

For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”