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Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore “Downey to Lubbock” (Yep Roc, 2018)

May 25, 2018 Mark Johnson 0

Dave Alvin and Jimmie Dale Gilmore have been scene buddies for 30 years, but never recorded together until now. Whilst joint headlining recently they realised the chemistry, and decided they had to get something down, resulting […]

Album Reviews

The Equatorial Group “Apricity” (Independent, 2018)

May 25, 2018 Elise Kennedy 0

The Equatorial Group’s self-funded debut album ‘Apricity’ does not fit neatly into a particular genre of Americana, having a distinctly psychedelic acoustic sound.  ‘Motorbikes’ is the closest to a country-Americana song with the opening guitar picking of […]

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Pick of the Political Pops: The Jayhawks “Stumbling Through The Dark”

May 25, 2018 Paul Villers 0

We like to think of The Bunker as a place of refuge situated as it is deep underground in the bowels of the lower reaches of Americana-UK Towers. Here, with a well stocked bar, a fast […]

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Massage “Lydia” – Listen

May 25, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Alex Naidus – formerly of Pains of Being Pure at Heart – heads up Massage, an LA based band with a nice line in jangly-guitar pop.  ‘Lydia’ is one of the first songs the band worked […]

News

David Crosby has UK dates upcoming

May 25, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Get excited – David Crosby, the one who writes “the weird shit” has announced UK dates for this September.  Don’t get too excited, it’s not what we’d call a tour.  It’s two dates – Manchester at […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Video Premiere: The HawtThorns “One Human at a Time”

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Check out this exclusive live performance video of ‘One Human at a Time’ from Nashville husband and wife duo The HawtThorns.  On this song, Johnny HawtThorn plays engaging guitar, including a gently tuneful solo, and KP […]

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Fountains of Wayne haven’t been mentioned on AUK for many years mainly because of their longterm hiatus from recording after recording one of the greatest folk-pop records of all time ‘Sky Full of Holes’ so it’s […]

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Our top ten americana albums of 2021 – Part Two

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Americana UK reveals its album of the year for 2021. Following a few dormant years when trying to decide on an albums of the year list we ended up scratching (and sometimes gouging) each other’s eyes […]

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