2023 – Page 199 – Americana UK

Bandits On The Run “Radio” – Gather around and listen

June 26, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Bandits on the Run – well, what is going on here? The modern folk trio we’ve come to know as Bonanza Jellyfish, Roy Dodger and Clarissa are now openly going by their real names of Adrian […]

Video: Greensky Bluegrass “Get Out”

June 26, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Greensky Bluegrass is a band that truly delivers a fusion of old and new, a fresh spin on bluegrass that is informed and inspired by traditional sounds and instruments but reaches for something distinctively theirs. Mandolin-player, Paul […]

Something for the weekend: Josh Ritter and Aoife O’Donovan “Strong Swimmer”

June 23, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week. Just to swerve away from the world of americana for a moment, if the saga around interest rates is leaving your head spinning, and let’s face it, renters […]

From the AUK archives, 2017: Jeremy Hunt: Jason Isbell is “a bit anodyne”

June 23, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1

Robert Peston has written a piece for today’s New Statesman in which both he and Jeremy Hunt manage to insult Jason Isbell in the space of one paragraph: The more worrying thing of course would have […]

AUK’s Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Clint West

June 23, 2023 Clint West 8

AUK Features Editor Clint West writes: Welcome to a brand-new feature where each week an AUK writer will select their ‘Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists’. We will then aggregate their scores to bring you our […]

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0

It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

July 2, 2026 0

It would be strange to start things off by actually introducing Lucinda Williams, so let’s begin with a justification instead: Williams has been at it since her 1979 debut Ramblin’ Woman, though she only truly broke […]

artwork for Adam Beattie album "Home Fires Burning"

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

July 2, 2026 0

The hero’s journey echoed in the experiences of an everyman. It might be an exaggeration to say there are as many types of songwriters as there are songwriters, but then again, it might not. As well […]

Year: 2023

Bandits On The Run “Radio” – Gather around and listen

Video: Greensky Bluegrass “Get Out”

Something for the weekend: Josh Ritter and Aoife O’Donovan “Strong Swimmer”

From the AUK archives, 2017: Jeremy Hunt: Jason Isbell is “a bit anodyne”

AUK’s Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Clint West

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

Book Review: Amy Speace “To The Performer, The Singer–Songwriter’s Handbook”

Juana Everett “Past Lives in California”