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[ September 30, 2026 ] Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Sufjan Stevens Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
[ September 30, 2026 ] Nive Nielsen and The Deer Children “My Mother’s Name” Album Reviews
[ September 30, 2026 ] David Banks “All The Dreams We Left Behind” Album Reviews
[ September 30, 2026 ] Stephanie Sammons “Head Noise” Album Reviews
[ September 30, 2026 ] Folk Tracks Roundup – September 2026 Tracks

Something for the weekend: Big Red Machine “Phoenix”

June 30, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it from us for another week. We are human here at AUK, or 95% of us are anyway, and accordingly we will occasionally miss something epic, a case in question being this track from […]

Eoin Glackin “The Way You Looked At Me” – could this be, could this be love?

June 30, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Going into the weekend with a piece of retro-Americana, there’s a 1920’s feel to this single from Dublin-based folk / blues / americana artist Eoin Glackin, which offers a preview of his forthcoming album, ‘The Cost […]

The First Time: Alasdair Fotheringham – The Alarm + Kissing Bandits + Mercenary Skank (Exeter University, 24th January 1984)

June 30, 2023 Alasdair Fotheringham 2

Warning to all The Alarm fans so they can stop reading this now – I didn’t enjoy their part of this gig at all. But weird as it sounds, no matter how disappointing (to me) the […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 102

June 30, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 3

A dawning realisation. Three weeks of school left and a school trip to Paris involving 81 kids and a 01.00 start time for the coach! That horror aside, the slow inevitable march to my final lessons […]

artwork for Drive-By Truckers album "The Complete Dirty South"

Drive-By Truckers “The Complete Dirty South”

June 30, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

Twenty-year anniversary album now available as the band original intended with three bonus tracks. Back in 2004 Georgia’s finest exports the Drive-By Truckers released their fifth album and the third in a trilogy of albums that […]

Sufjan Stevens at Celebrate Brooklyn 2011

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Sufjan Stevens

September 30, 2026 0

The Americana UK archives are not exactly rammed with Sufjan Stevens content. Andrew Frolish selected the sublime John Wayne Gacy, Jr. for his Chain Gang feature in 2022 (here). Otherwise, there are a few ‘guest appearance’ […]

Artwork for Nive Nielsen and The Deer Children's album "My Mother's Name"

Nive Nielsen and The Deer Children “My Mother’s Name”

September 30, 2026 0

Wandering songwriter returns with first album in a decade: lessons in melodic self-definition ensue. “I don’t plan, and I don’t plan to stop”. The opening line to the first and title track of My Mother’s Name […]

Cover art for David Banks album "All The Dreams We Left Behind"

David Banks “All The Dreams We Left Behind”

September 30, 2026 0

Former Whybirds guitarist and co-writer delivers a sophomore album replete with anthemic songs infused with arena rock. It is now over seven years since David Banks released his debut album, Until The End, which saw the […]

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