2019 – Page 4 – Americana UK

Songs for the apocalypse: Loudon Wainwright III “Christmas Morning”

December 19, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

I love this Christmas song. It’s typically sardonic Loudon, starting off with innocuous couplets like “Well the banks & the schools & the post office are closed, You can park where you please and you won’t […]

Americana UK writers choose their albums of 2019 – part two

December 19, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s part two of our writers picks from 2019 where we collectively list the albums that made the biggest impact on us over the last 12 months. There’s one album repeated from yesterday’s list which I […]

Helen Jones’s Review of 2019

December 19, 2019 Helen Jones 0

Reflecting on 2019, there has been a lot of quality music released – including fantastic records from Sturgill Simpson, The Highwomen and Tyler Childers to name a few – so much excellent music in fact that […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Robert Wyatt “At Last I Am Free”

December 19, 2019 Paul Villers 1

Friends, readers, colleagues! Rejoice! AUK have held our election for the position of The Editor and we are supremely proud to announce that – for the nth year running – The Editor has pulled off a […]

Dean Owens & The Southerners, Sounds In The Suburbs @ The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 15th December 2019

December 19, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

The irony of this cross border trio appearing in Glasgow in the wake of an election which saw England and Scotland diametrically opposed was not lost on Dean Owens tonight. The prankster in him surreptitiously arranged […]