2023 – Page 4 – Americana UK

Video: The Hanging Stars “Let Me Dream of You”

December 21, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

The Hanging Stars finish the year with this epic-sounding song. Full of thudding drums and sweeping guitar, ‘Let Me Dream of You’ soars, like a dream flying into the cosmos. There are gorgeous four-part harmonies and […]

Americana UK’s Top 20 Albums of 2023: Part One, 20-11

December 20, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1

Here at AUK Towers, like all loving families, we fight – a lot – over who has used the last of the milk, left the washing up in the sink, accidentally locked the cat in the […]

More People Really Should Know About: Richard Shindell

December 20, 2023 Rick Thorn 2

‘13 Songs You May or May Not Have Heard Before’ is the wonderfully modest name of Richard Shindell’s best of album released in 2011. It beautifully demonstrates his attitude towards fame or the trappings of success. […]

Andrew Weiss and Friends “Beverly Hills, Thanksgiving Day”

December 20, 2023 Lyndon Bolton 0

Deep thoughts with deft turns of phrase all to a warm West Coast sound. Amid the gloom under relentlessly grey skies as the year draws to a close a glimmer of sunshine appears from Long Island […]

Pump Up The Volume – A Year of Tracks

December 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Well, another year steams away down the Americana UK Tracks, and it’s therefore time to do the annual compare and contrast in which we find just which songs you enjoyed each month dear readers, and compare […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 2

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”