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Month: November 2021

Features

Feature: How two Manchester women, fed up of people chatting at gigs, decided to put on their own shows – with a strict no talking policy

November 29, 2021 Clint West 1
Clint West meets Dawn and Tania of ‘The Hen House Presents’ at their own Otis Gibbs show. Recently whilst at a Peter Bruntnell gig, a friend handed me a flyer for an Otis Gibbs show in […]
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Album Reviews

Kiely Connell “Calumet Queen”

November 29, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0
A stunning and emotionally potent debut album from Midwestern singer-songwriter Kiely Connell. On the cover of Kiely Connell’s debut album “Calumet Queen” is a drawing of her wearing a beauty queen tiara with the spikes forming […]
Live Reviews

Billy Bragg, The Albert Hall, Manchester, 20th November 2021

November 29, 2021 Guy Lincoln 1
Billy Bragg tours and plays gigs, a lot. We’ve missed him this last couple of years and evidently he’s missed us too. He tells us about his lockdown, how he’s missed gigging and his ongoing anxieties […]
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Album Reviews

Dion “Stomping Ground”

November 29, 2021 Russell Murphy 0
Classic stomping from a living legend. Here’s a guy that should need no introduction, an artist who has been prolific as a rock and roll artist, a folk singer-songwriter in the 60s, and indeed since that […]
Tracks

Amy Jay “Monster” – I am multitudes…

November 29, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Indie-folk artist, Amy Jay, has announced her upcoming album, ‘Awake Sleeper‘, from which the new single, “Monster” is taken.  ‘Awake Sleeper’ is Jay’s first full-length release and follows two EPs, 2016’s ‘Supposed to Be’ and 2018’s […]

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The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

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It’s week 2 of the search for our writers’ Top 10 UK americana albums, and Jonathan Hincks will doubt add to the debate with his choice, as follows: With the hands of the Doomsday Clock edging […]
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Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

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Norwegian queer-country assertively and affectionately delivering. Embla Karidotter was the drummer for Norwegian indie band Razika for 13 years, before she chose to change direction and build on her love of country music with new band […]
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Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

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On the 16th of October, Béla Fleck is to release the recording of a stellar Nashville night as a live album called Live Heart. On January 8, 2022, he and a multigenerational gang of musical heavy […]

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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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Interview: Greensky Bluegrass’s Paul Hoffman on “Stress Dreams” and playing arenas

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They may have a rock’n’roll attituded and a light show but they still don’t have a drummer. Can you still be viewed as a red-headed stepchild when you are over twenty years of age? I’m not […]
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From the AUK Archives: VERSIONS – “Long Black Veil”

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A few years ago AUK ran a series called VERSIONS. It basically did what it says on the tin and invited our writers to celebrate both the original and some of the best covers of classic […]
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Something for the long weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Foreign Land”

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That’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a brand new song from the lovely Teenage Fanclub who this week announced their new album ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ which is due […]

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