2024 – Americana UK

Merry Christmas to all our readers from the AUK team

December 23, 2024 Mark Whitfield 10

Well that’s it from us for this year. A huge thank you to you our readers for your ongoing support and sticking with us through the thick and sometimes thin. We are taking a much-needed break […]

Here are the results of the Americana UK Readers’ Poll 2024

December 23, 2024 Mark Whitfield 15

Well here they are – as always on our last day of publishing for the year, we can share with you the results of this year’s readers poll in which over 400 of you voted for […]

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Michael Weston King “Sally Sparkles” / Lou Dalgleish “The Empty Swing”

December 23, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

The americana community in the UK is fairly close-knit so many of you will know already that one of the little girls who died in Southport over the summer was Bebe King, the granddaughter of Michael […]

For the Sake of the Song: Barnaby Bright “If We Listen”

December 23, 2024 FredArnold 0

A few years ago (2013 to be precise) I discovered Liz Longley, largely through a wonderful single on what was, I subsequently found out, her fourth album, the self-titled “Liz Longley”. The song was a cracker, […]

Live Review: Ags Connolly + Simon Stanley Ward, Fat Lils, Witney – 11th December 2024

December 23, 2024 Gordon Mackay 0

On a cold December evening the crowd packing the wood-panelled bar of Fat Lil’s were transported from West Oxfordshire to West Texas for an evening of traditional country music courtesy of Ags Connolly here to launch […]