2023 – Page 263 – Americana UK

Interview: Tom Ovans on why 4-track recording can still deliver music relevant to 2023

May 2, 2023 Martin Johnson 2

If you are born to be a musician and singer-songwriter you just keep doing what you do. Integrity is a rare thing in music, and it is something that artists who have it can easily lose […]

Pixie & The Partygrass Boys “The Devil Went Down To Utah” – Utah? Are you sure?

May 2, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

On this cover of the song you doubtless recall, Pixie & The Partygrass Boys have relocated the fiddle contest encounter to Utah – on the grounds that that is where they, and in particular their fiddle […]

Darling West “Cosmos”

May 2, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Norway’s Darling West look to Rumours era Mac for new album. Opening with the title track is always a signal of intent and Norwegian band Darling West lay down the template for this album from the […]

View from Across La Manche#14 – From Our Own Correspondent

May 2, 2023 Rick Bayles 0

A rose by any other name… When we moved to France, back in December of 2020, I had a bit of schoolboy French and that was it; just enough to, sort of, get by in a […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Beyoncé & The Dixie Chicks “Daddy Lessons”

May 2, 2023 Andy Davidson 0

From The King of Juke Joint Swing to Queen Bey. Despite the anxiety of being designated driver for this week, I thoroughly enjoyed unpacking last Monday’s link by Guy Lincoln. The phrase ‘nom de plume‘ had […]

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

June 30, 2026 0

On Singing Machine, Microphone, the final track on David Borné’s 2023 debut Genesis, he sings of the unbridled, innocent joy of making music during childhood for nothing but the pure love of it. It’s a soaring […]

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 […]

Year: 2023

Interview: Tom Ovans on why 4-track recording can still deliver music relevant to 2023

Pixie & The Partygrass Boys “The Devil Went Down To Utah” – Utah? Are you sure?

Darling West “Cosmos”

View from Across La Manche#14 – From Our Own Correspondent

AUK’s Chain Gang: Beyoncé & The Dixie Chicks “Daddy Lessons”

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

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