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Happy Christmas to all our readers from Americana UK

December 20, 2019 Mark Whitfield 6
Well that’s a wrap from us for this year dear readers. Thanks so much for all your support for the site which we still manage to scrape along on a shoestring budget, but it happens firstly […]
Features

Roseanne Reid selects her top ten Americana Christmas tracks

December 20, 2019 Andrew Frolish 0
Here at AUK, we are jolly souls, who like to share the seasonal joy – three things we particularly love are endlessly debatable top ten lists, Christmas songs, and Roseanne Reid. Could it be possible to […]
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2019 has been Yola’s year

December 20, 2019 Mark Underwood 0
I can quite vividly remember New Year’s Eve last year, with family members clustered around the TV set for Jools Holland’s Hootenanny and the satisfaction I had in being able to point to a rising star […]
Features

Here are the results of 2019’s Americana UK readers poll!

December 20, 2019 Mark Whitfield 1
So here we are again. If the word “poll” is still making you break out in cold sweats, this will hopefully be cathartic before the year is out. We should have actually started counting the number […]
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Watch Tyler Childers performing “Country Squire”

December 20, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
We do love a bit of Tyler Childers here on AUK and earlier in the week he was the musical guest on Late Night With Seth Meyers Monday night, performing the title track from his rather […]

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