2023 – Page 137 – Americana UK

More People Really Should Know About: The Deslondes

August 22, 2023 Paul Kerr 1

As the gist of this column is to raise the awareness of acts who provide quality music but aren’t especially lauded I reckoned that The Deslondes, a five-piece outfit from New Orleans fitted the bill. To […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: one of the most emotionally raw songs ever written, “I Can’t Make You Love Me”

August 22, 2023 Paul Russell 0

So we finished a fascinating chain in the last piece with Shirley Collins and ‘Adieu To All Judges and Juries’. So, there were two routes to potentially go to follow that track – ‘legal’ or ‘au […]

Live Review: Beth Nielsen Chapman, Nells, London, 4th August 2023

August 22, 2023 David Jarman 0

A devoted and enthusiastic audience at London’s Nell’s was treated to a fine performance from Beth Nielson Chapman, delivered with her characteristic honesty, passion, and humour, spanning her career from its earliest days to her recent […]

Whitney K “Vivi”

August 22, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Immediate and compelling live document of career so far. This album is not what the general public require at this time from Whitney K. It is, of itself, a raw, raucous and intimate thing to be […]

Olive Klug “Bath Bomb” – sparkling in water…

August 22, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Olive Klug currently resides in Los Angeles but was raised in Portland, Oregon. The twenty-six-year-old describes themselves as a kid at heart, but after gathering some attention on Tik-Tok they have just released a debut album […]

Ian Prowse “No Names”

June 30, 2026 0

Impassioned energy and emotionally charged politics from Merseyside luminary. Ian Prowse has been making music for more than thirty years, first with indie band Pele, then forming the band Amsterdam in 1999, and now releasing albums […]

New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

June 30, 2026 0

Occasionally, we provide a compendium of recently announced live shows, so here are three sets of tour dates that came our way in the last few days. Gaslight Anthem main man, Brian Fallon, who recently led […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Dillon Warnek

June 30, 2026 0

AUK viewers will be treated to a little change of pace from acoustic guitars as Dillon Warnek performs his mini-gig while accompanying himself on the piano. The set was recorded at Bomb Studios in Nashville, the […]

Year: 2023

More People Really Should Know About: The Deslondes

AUK’s Chain Gang: one of the most emotionally raw songs ever written, “I Can’t Make You Love Me”

Live Review: Beth Nielsen Chapman, Nells, London, 4th August 2023

Whitney K “Vivi”

Olive Klug “Bath Bomb” – sparkling in water…

Ian Prowse “No Names”

New tour dates for Brian Fallon, Pokey Lafarge and The Roseline

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Dillon Warnek

Preview: Rose’s Pawn Shop selling great gigs for the next couple of weeks

Jonathon Penn “It Took A Long Time To Get Young”