2020 – Page 220 – Americana UK

Neal Casal Foundation and tribute album announced

June 19, 2020 Mark Whitfield 1

A tribute album featuring Steve Earle, Lucinda Williams and Beachwood Sparks among others was announced yesterday along with details of a new Neal Casal Music Foundation (NCMF) which has been created “to honour the memory of […]

Mitch Dean “Holding Back the Levee” (Independent, 2020)

June 19, 2020 Mark Nenadic 0

Hailing from Melbourne, Australia, Mitch Dean is no spring chicken. Perhaps more of a gnarled rooster. And, as we all know, gnarled roosters make much better records than any spring chickens ever will. Dean’s voice is […]

Karima Walker & Katy Kirby “Right By You” – Listen

June 19, 2020 Jonathan Aird 2

‘Right By You‘ is taken from the fifth Among Horses recording – cunningly entitled ‘Among Horses V‘. It’s an original idea – what happens if you drop a pair of songwriters into a Spanish retirement home […]

Video: Robert Francis + The End Times “Coast”

June 19, 2020 Andrew Frolish 1

‘Coast’ is the catchy, anthemic new single from Robert Francis + The End Times. It’s taken from the new album, ‘The End times Vol. 1’, which is out today, 19th June. Francis says of the new […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana albums ever: Peter Churchill

June 18, 2020 Clint West 3

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 […]

Danny O;Keefe at Cosumer Unity conference 1981

For the Sake of the Song: Danny O’Keefe “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues”

July 6, 2026 0

Danny O’Keefe was one of the many folk-oriented singer-songwriters who flourished in the early ’70s, and while he didn’t break through to platinum success, his songs were covered by the likes of Jackson Browne, Elvis Presley, […]

Rodney Crowell “Then Again”

July 6, 2026 0

Forgotten recordings from 20 years ago, which will delight Crowell fans. Then Again was recorded in 2006 with the same band as on Rodney Crowell’s previous three albums, The Houston Kid (2001), Fate’s Right Hand (2003) […]

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Music Festival

July 6, 2026 0

Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

Year: 2020

Neal Casal Foundation and tribute album announced

Mitch Dean “Holding Back the Levee” (Independent, 2020)

Karima Walker & Katy Kirby “Right By You” – Listen

Video: Robert Francis + The End Times “Coast”

AUK’s Top 10 Americana albums ever: Peter Churchill

For the Sake of the Song: Danny O’Keefe “Good Time Charlie’s Got The Blues”

Rodney Crowell “Then Again”

Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Music Festival

Live Review: Sierra Ferrell + The Brudi Brothers, Docks, Hamburg – 1st July 2026

Sounds from beyond the Shed 243 “A game of two halves”