March 2020 – Page 11 – Americana UK

Video: Palomino Kings “Our Time Will Come”

March 25, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

‘Our Time Will Come’ was recorded live at the Boathouse Studio on the Shotley Peninsula. Clearly, the isolation on the Suffolk Coast brings out the best from Palomino Kings. With a strong rhythm and bass line, […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Whitacre

March 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Here at AUK, we’re trying to keep spirits high during these strange days by asking some great artists to record exclusive live mini-gigs just for you, dear reader! Denver-based Whitacre make folk music with a little […]

Classic Americana Albums: Lyle Lovett “Pontiac” (MCA/Curb, 1987)

March 24, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 2

I am sure it is an apocryphal and familiar story, but it does have a point regarding Lovett’s surprising union with Julia Roberts. There was speculation about how the one might manage to live with the […]

Lucinda Williams “Lost Girl” – Listen

March 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 1

We don’t want to bring your mood down at all but if the new song from Lucinda Williams doesn’t make you feel just a little more desperate than you were five minutes before you first heard […]

Video Premiere: Chris Castino “Chinese Whispers”

March 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Chris Castino displays excellent songcraft on the beautifully performed ‘Chinese Whispers’. The song is about being physically separated from people you love and the first word we hear is the name of Castino’s cousin Sonny, […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 1 day ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
By fredhead , 2 days ago
RE: Versions!
@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
By Martin Johnson , 3 days ago
RE: What are you watching at the moment?
Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
By Paul Villers , 4 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
By Peter Thompson , 4 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
By Jonathan Hincks , 5 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 6 days ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...
By Peter Thompson , 1 week ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
@andyshort Yes, it makes a refreshing change from artis...
By Peter Thompson , 1 week ago

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 0

The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]

Artwork for Yarn album “Saturday Night Sermon”

Yarn “Saturday Night Sermon”

May 13, 2026 0

Enjoyable southern rock release with lyrics that focus on the positive. Formed in Brooklyn at the end of 2006, but now based in North Carolina, Yarn tend to lean towards the southern rock element of americana. […]

Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

May 13, 2026 0

The Bread and Roses is located in the heart of Clapham, London. Owned by The Battersea and Wandsworth Trade Union Council, it consists of the ground-floor pub and a theatre space above. It’s a community-oriented establishment […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 0

Interviews

Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 0

“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

Interviews

Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0

Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]

Album Reviews

Peter Mulvey And SistaStrings “Love Is The Only Thing”

September 1, 2022 0

Love and the future of Democracy – two large and intertwined topics. SistaStrings are cellist-vocalist Monique Ross and violinist-vocalist Chauntee Ross, and they’ve teamed with Peter Mulvey to make an album of some sonic depth – […]

Album Reviews

Son of the Velvet Rat “Solitary Company”

March 25, 2021 0

Bleak but compelling desert tomb-stone Americana engraved with whimsical European folk-noir. OK, let’s get the ‘Is-that-really-what-they’re-called?’ reaction out of the way, given that a band name as strikingly odd as Son of the Velvet Rat feels […]

Whatever Happened To...

Forgotten Artists – Lucy Kaplansky

November 12, 2020 1

Here we are with another FORGOTTEN ARTIST article, and frequent contributor Tim Martin is back to remind us about the career of a singer-songwriter who’s also a fine interpreter of other artists songs. Lucy Kaplansky describes […]

Month: March 2020

Video: Palomino Kings “Our Time Will Come”

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Whitacre

Classic Americana Albums: Lyle Lovett “Pontiac” (MCA/Curb, 1987)

Lucinda Williams “Lost Girl” – Listen

Video Premiere: Chris Castino “Chinese Whispers”

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

Yarn “Saturday Night Sermon”

Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

Van Morrison to play 5 night residency at new West London venue in September

Odd Marshall “Seconds”