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Tracks

Track Premiere: Gregg Hill “New Orleans Again”

August 15, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Gregg Hill hails from Chicago but not exclusively – he has also called New Jersey, Dallas, D.C., NY home, and currently it is New Orleans. He travels extensively. Along with being a singer/songwriter, his sculptures are […]

Videos

Video: I Have a Tribe “Fly Like a Bird”

August 15, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Irish musician Patrick O’Laoghaire, who performs under the moniker I Have a Tribe, is a brilliantly-gifted songwriter and his talent is displayed once again in his latest single, ‘Fly Like a Bird’.  O’Laoghaire’s characterful, gritty voice […]

Americana Vinyl Treasures

Americana Vinyl Treasures: Chuck Prophet “Brother Aldo” – Fire Records, 1990

August 14, 2023 Clint West 1

AUK Features Editor Clint West writes: In our latest new feature, a selection of AUK writers will be rifling through their vinyl shelves to unearth the ‘Americana Vinyl Treasures’ from within their personal collections. We’re not […]

Album Reviews

Austin Stambaugh “Midwest Supernatural”

August 14, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

A superb set of modern country songs informed by classic country singer-songwriters. It’s a rare delight to discover an album from a new name that immediately captures your attention, indeed, grabs it and won’t let go. […]

AUK's Chain Gang

AUK’s Chain Gang: squeezebox musings guide us to the birth of folk rock on “Adieu To All Judges And Juries”

August 14, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1

The last link in the chain celebrated the power of the concertina and other associated squeezebox instruments, and noted that  “Jimmy Shand memories had similarly been set aside since Richard Thompson added the instrument to his […]

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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”
  • The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Graeme Tait
  • AUK Short Cuts: Licking The Moose, The Late Lights, Brian Just, Alex Mason, Jackie Conn and The Jill Students Workshop Project
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Interviews

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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Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 48

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 […]

Essentials

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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