2022 – Page 160 – Americana UK

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Parker Twomey “All This Life”

August 2, 2022 Graeme Tait 0

New generation of Texan singer songwriter delivers debut album that suggests promise for the future. Parker Twomey is a graduate of the Booker T Washington School for the Performing Arts who, in 2019, at just eighteen […]

The Other Side of Me: Ljubinko Zivkovic celebrates the Krautrock delights of Can’s ‘Future Days’

August 2, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

‘Future Days’, Can’s fifth album proper, could to this day probably be one of the more misunderstood. Many critics, even those very knowledgeable in all matters Krautrock like Julian Cope, seem to have missed the point. […]

Live Review: Peter Rowan and Los Texmaniacs, The Uptown! Knauer Performing Art Center, West Chester, Pennsylvania – 23rd July 2022

August 2, 2022 Mike Fiorito 2

Peter Rowan and the Free Mexican Airforce, featuring Los Texmaniacs, completed their East Coast tour at the Uptown! Knauer Performing Art Center in West Chester, PA on July 13, 2022. Originally built as an armoury, the […]

Breaking Grass “Somewhere Beyond”

August 2, 2022 Tim Martin 0

A slightly routine album, lifted by some excellent singing and songwriting. ‘Somewhere Beyond’ is Breaking Grass’s sixth album and from the first song, ‘100 Degrees In The Shade’ has an instrumental mix that is exactly what […]

Track Premiere: Gemma Laurence “Lavender”

August 2, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

‘Lavender‘ is the title song of Gemma Laurence’s new album due out this November on Better Company Records/The Orchard. It’s a song that questions a lot of situations and finds that there is actually an explanation […]

Interview: Jeff Finlin – the hero who journeys among us

July 1, 2026 0

In 2023, an AUK writer displayed exquisite taste by naming Jeff Finlin as one of the top ten greatest americana artists of all time. Congrats to Jeff, as well as, after all, he did record the […]

All-star tribute to the Delmore Brothers to be released in October

July 1, 2026 0

The music of Alton and Rabon Delmore continues to influence generations of singers and songwriters across multiple genres. From their first appearance as the Delmore Brothers at the 1926 Athens Fiddlers Convention, their intricate harmonies took […]

Lynn Blakey “Dreams are Lovers: A Retrospective”

July 1, 2026 1

Unfashionable but influential collaborative indie singer-songwriter enjoys a career-spanning retrospective following her untimely death earlier this year. Lynn Blakey was not a name that gained a great deal of traction commercially but she was an influential […]

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