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Classic Clips: Wilco, Mavis Staples and Nick Lowe “The Weight” – Chicago Civic Opera House, 2012

February 4, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 3

Featuring three greatly loved artists round these ere parts, this a glorious piece of film from the green room of the Chicago Civic Opera House in 2012 as they rehearse the encore they are about to […]

Shuffle: Connections

February 4, 2022 David Cowling 0

Music has a wonderful ability to connect us, whether this is a communal experience at a gig or a song that can dredge up feelings so sharply that you can feel the pain or the elation […]

Silver Lining “The Dream”

February 4, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

If you too are still bummed out that AmericanaFest had (for the best and most sensible of reasons) to be cancelled – and in particular are pining for the promised Die With Your Boots On Records […]

Video Premiere: Velvet & Stone “Jeni”

February 4, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Indie-folk band Velvet & Stone have followed up their well-received self-titled 2019 album with new single ‘Jeni’, a dynamic song of relationship struggles and fading love. The song builds in instrumental layers, gathering energy and purpose. […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Gordon Sharpe

February 3, 2022 Gordon Sharpe 0

I still feel when writing an article of this sort that someone might sneak up behind me and say ‘aha’ and ‘got you’. It lays bare the limitations of my listening. Either I fill in gaps […]

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

July 10, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place across 2 stages in Liverpool at the end of November and features Chuck Prophet and […]

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

July 10, 2026 0

Willy Vlautin is well known as the chief songwriter of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines, trading in beautifully written vignettes of the people who have generally fallen between the cracks of the American dream. These dark […]

Emmylou Harris, Mumford and Sons and Jerry Douglas

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

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The evening before San Francisco’s 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival the Masonic Auditorium hosted a tribute concert to Emmylou Harris, the only artist to have graced the festival stages for each of its 25 years. During […]

Year: 2022

Classic Clips: Wilco, Mavis Staples and Nick Lowe “The Weight” – Chicago Civic Opera House, 2012

Shuffle: Connections

Silver Lining “The Dream”

Video Premiere: Velvet & Stone “Jeni”

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Gordon Sharpe

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

Les Thomas “I Remember Everything”

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring author and journalist Liz Thomson