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Why Americana UK is leaving X aka Twitter

August 20, 2024 Mark Whitfield 11
After a prolonged discussion within our editorial team, we’ve made the decision to leave X aka Twitter and just wanted to let you our readers know the reasons for this although they probably won’t come as […]
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Gillian Welch and David Rawlings “Hashtag” – remembering a friend

August 20, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Here we are catching up on big names in this post-holiday period, and we are just not going to say anything about Gillian Welch and David Rawlings other than that for more years than we care […]
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Video Premiere: Arthur Ahbez “Reckless”

August 20, 2024 Ed Donnelly 1
Arthur Ahbez finds his way through found footage in the new video for ‘Reckless’.   The New Zealand-based singer and his band The Flaming Ahbez have brought a bit of 60’s garage rock to his usual folky […]
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AUK’s EP Round-Up – August 2024

August 19, 2024 Graeme Tait 2
Well it’s August already, so time to checkout some excellent music that spans the spectrum of the Americana genre in our Monthly EP’s Round-Up. For starters we have a tasty offering of stripped back country roots, […]
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For The Sake Of The Song: Big Star “September Gurls”

August 19, 2024 Andrew Raw 6
It was the early nineties and I had one of those momentous moments in my musical listening when I heard the fabulous ”Bandwagonesque” by AUK favourites Teenage Fanclub. At the time I was absolutely knocked out- […]

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Clay DuBose “Father Time & Mother Nature”

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Martin Simpson “The Recruited Collier” – off to the wars

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Video Premiere: Benny Bleu “Serenity Song”

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For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

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Album Reviews

Clay DuBose “Father Time & Mother Nature”

May 12, 2026 0
Americana and roots rock enlivened by a carefully picked team of players, adding vigour and bite to some workmanlike songs. Clay DuBose has recruited a crack team of players to support his third album. Opening song […]
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Live Review: Paraorchestra and The Breath, The Barbican, London – 22nd April 2026

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It’s a fairly unusual thing to be attending a gig where all the background on the reasoning for the collaboration and what each of the parts of the equation, folk group The Breath and the larger […]
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Martin Simpson “The Recruited Collier” – off to the wars

May 12, 2026 0
And we ask ourselves yet again have we accidentally slipped into a themed week again, as we head off again into the world of well-known folk artists with big new releases.  Let’s see how the week […]

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0
David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit “Middle Of The Morning” – Gotta get up, gotta get out

March 31, 2023 0
This is the second single from Jason Isbell’s new album ‘Weathervanes‘, which will be released June 9th on Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers.   It sounds quietly reflective, with almost a romantic ballad feel to it – but this […]
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Sarah Watson “A Mother’s Guilt” (Independent, 2018)

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Twenty years is a long time away from making music to feel the urge to start over again. West Yorkshire based, Welsh born Watson has done just that. Brave. Here she presents a simple, uncomplicated set […]
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New Nanci Griffith boxset “Working in Corners” and tribute album announced

July 4, 2023 0
In 2021, the music industry lost one of its finest talents: singer, songwriter, and guitarist, Nanci Griffith. The Texas-born, GRAMMY Award-winning artist, who would have celebrated her 70th birthday next week, was revered for her compelling storytelling, […]

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