2020 – Page 180 – Americana UK

Starpainter “Slammin’ On The Brakes” – Listen

July 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Starpainter are kind of reticent about who they are, as if they just want the music to speak for itself. And maybe that’s no bad thing. ‘Slammin’ on the Brakes‘ describes an actual car accident – […]

Video: Townes Van Zandt “Pancho and Lefty”

July 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

It has been too long since we had ‘retro Friday’! So, here it is: one of the all-time great songs from one of the all-time great artists. This version of ‘Pancho and Lefty’ is from the […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Tim Martin

July 23, 2020 Clint West 5

At AUK we are on a quest to find the ‘top 10 americana albums ever’. Over the last few weeks our writers have been going through the mental anguish of trying to narrow the whole history […]

Drew Danburry “Expulsion Papers Unearthed, For Micah Again or Forever”

July 23, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

AUK has had a longstanding love affair with the music of Drew Danburry and that’s about to blossom into its latest iteration with the release of not one but two new albums. ‘Icarus Phoenix’ is due […]

Margo Price “That’s How Rumors Get Started” (Loma Vista, 2020)

July 23, 2020 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

With her first two albums, Margo Price was proclaimed as one of the prime candidates to be crowned as one of the queens of Americana. Hey, at one point, such ‘pure’ Americana artist as Sturgill Simpson […]

Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “4th of July”

July 3, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm tonight. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place […]

Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026

July 3, 2026 0

Performances don’t get much more intimate when less than 50 people are in the front space of a record shop and the artist is playing unamplified, less than five feet away. In the autumn of 2025, […]

Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen “They Call Us The Lucky Ones”

July 3, 2026 0

Americana royalty teams up with a cracking Texas band to produce a varied and highly enjoyable mix of country, soul and stomp. Ryan Bingham is a comparatively rare example of an americana artist who has broken […]

Year: 2020

Starpainter “Slammin’ On The Brakes” – Listen

Video: Townes Van Zandt “Pancho and Lefty”

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Tim Martin

Drew Danburry “Expulsion Papers Unearthed, For Micah Again or Forever”

Margo Price “That’s How Rumors Get Started” (Loma Vista, 2020)

Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “4th of July”

Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026

Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen “They Call Us The Lucky Ones”

Americana Stories – Simon Lamont “Americana”

Our new supporters playlist is out later today – win a vinyl copy of Ashley McBryde’s new album