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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 109

August 18, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Have I made the right decision … For the first year in a long, long time (pandemic notwithstanding) I will not be attending the End of the Road festival. It has been a regular feature of […]

Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Wilco “Impossible Germany” – KCRW session at The Theatre at Ace Hotel, 2016

August 18, 2023 Guy Lincoln 1

Given that the name of this feature is ‘Classic Clips’ then you can not get more classic than this. I’d normally avoid offering something so fundamental to AUK and as widely known and loved as Wilco […]

News

Tyler Childers announces new album “Rustin’ in the Rain” – shares video for first song

August 18, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1

Kentucky’s Tyler Childers has announced details of his new album ‘Rustin’ In The Rain’, which will be released September 8th on Hickman Holler Records/RCA Records. Of the album, Childers shares, “This is a collection of songs I […]

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Album Reviews

Rab Noakes & Brooks Williams “Should We Tell Him”

August 18, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

An album of Don Everly songs proves a fitting tribute to the legend of the Scottish Folk scene, Rab Noakes. Rab Noakes, who died last October after a short illness, was a touchstone of the Scottish […]

News

Video: Graham Brown “You are the Stars”

August 18, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

We have been longtime fans of Canadiana artist Graham Brown here at AUK from our early days of the site, so we’re delighted to feature his new song this morning. On his thirteenth album, ‘Solo’, Brown […]

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  • Something for the weekend: This Is Lorelei “SF & GG” – the spirit of Elliott Smith in two minutes
  • The Gordon Sharpe Americana UK Book Award 2025
  • Classic Clips: Josh Ritter “All Some Kind of Dream” – Paste Studios, New York, 2019
  • The Third Mind make a ‘Spellbindingly’ quick return
  • Lucky Came To Town “The River Knows My Name”
  • The latest Americana UK podcast is now live featuring Courtney Marie Andrews
  • The Corner Laughers “Rainbow Cardigan” – contains plausible dance moves
  • Video Premiere: KB Bayley “Everybody’s Got To Learn Sometime”
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Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion

January 13, 2026 0

“Are you really real, do you feel the same thing that I do, girl, when I touch you, girl?” ~ Ricky Nelson According to iconic filmmaker Federico Fellini, “The visionary is the only true realist.” Before […]

Interviews

Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 0

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

Interviews

Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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