October 2020 – Americana UK

Something for the weekend: Richmond Fontaine “Don’t Skip Out on Me”

October 30, 2020 Mark Whitfield 3

It’s been a strange old week dear reader, almost biblical with its turn of events, and although here in the People’s Republic of Liverpool we’re long used to misrepresentation from national media, it sadly doesn’t make […]

The Song Remains: Billy Joe Shaver 1939 – 2020

October 30, 2020 Clint West 0

Famously described by Willie Nelson as “the greatest living songwriter” Billy Joe Shaver led an eventful and often tragic life before succumbing to a massive stroke at the age of 81. Although he will perhaps be […]

Interview: Taylor Goldsmith of Dawes talks to Josip Radic in Zagreb

October 30, 2020 Martin Johnson 0

This interview represents a bit of a first for Americana UK. We in the UK may be hurtling towards Brexit, but at AUK Towers we are doing our small bit to maintain active relations with Europe, […]

Jefferson Airplane “Hey Fredrick” – Listen

October 30, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

It is rather hard to believe that this song is fifty one years old, and rather harder to believe that the great ass-kicking Grace Slick is eighty one today. She’s the kind of person who’d say […]

Felix Hatfield “False God” (Fangbite Records, 2020)

October 30, 2020 Diccon Johnston 0

Felix Hatfield is the type of artistic polymath that you don’t meet every day. His creative works of madcap art and surrealist music over the last 25 years are unconstrained by genre and comprise of silent […]