June 2020 – Page 23 – Americana UK

AUK’s Top Ten Americana Albums Ever: Paul Villers

June 11, 2020 Clint West 2

At AUK we are now well into our quest to find the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums Ever’. Over the coming weeks and months each AUK writer will in turn, present their own personal selections. When each […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Kasey Chambers “On a Bad Day”

June 11, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Last week’s choice in this column was an Aussie and in no way attempting to replicate our americana chain, this week’s is coincidentally too (I say coincidentally like this is something happening to me). Kasey Chambers’ […]

Video: The Dead Tongues “Slack Jaw (ft. Phil Cook)”

June 11, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

There’s a haunting, emotional vocal on this beautiful song from The Dead Tongues. Ryan Gustafson, who records under the moniker The Dead Tongues, has been running a weekly livestream series called QuaranTV during the lock-down. In […]

Book Review: Ruth Charnock “Joni Mitchell: New Critical Readings” (Bloomsbury 2020)

June 11, 2020 Rick Bayles 0

This book made its debut in hardback in January of last year and now gets its awaited paperback release. Ruth Charnock, Senior Lecturer in English at the University of Lincoln, has pulled together a fascinating collection […]

Americana Roots: Cris Jacobs Band

June 11, 2020 Tim Newby 1

Americana Roots is a new feature here on AUK which highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US. It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the […]