December 2024 – Page 9

It’s the 2024 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year

December 16, 2024 Mark Whitfield 1

There are 3 days left to vote for your favourite Americana from the last 12 months! The stuff that’s resonated with you throughout the year, the stuff that you’ll still be talking about this time next […]

I picked up the loaded dice – Jon Aird’s 2024 year in review

December 16, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

Has this year actually finished up already? Ignoring everything that happened for good and for ill out in the greater world, it has been a crazy musical ride – so many fantastic albums, so many amazing […]

Fairport Convention’s Cropredy Festival 2025 line up revealed

December 16, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Folk rockers Fairport Convention have announced the line up for their Cropredy Convention in August, marking 45 years bringing some of the biggest names in music to a quiet corner of Oxfordshire. Taking place across the […]

Various Artists “Can’t Steal My Fire (The Songs of David Olney)”

December 16, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

Marvellous stories and enduring characters. This is like the All-Star game in Major League baseball, but instead of Aaron Judge, Shohei Ohtani, Bryce Harper, Mookie Betts and Christian Yelich, executive producer Gwil Owen lined up such […]

Mince Pie Mondays – Is there any Brandy Cream left?

December 16, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Another dip into the seemingly bottomless well of more or less Americana-ish / country / singer-songwriter / folk offerings that celebrate the most wonderful time of the year. Still a dearth of directly Solstice themed songs…we’ll […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

August 10, 2026 0

Seven Spanish Angels is a song which encapsulates a full range of americana imagery – doomed love, defiance, outlaws, faith, mystery and death – all set in an undescribed location that calls up the settings for […]

Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

August 10, 2026 0

A moving, beautifully crafted collection of songs that refuses to surrender compassion in a fractured world. Chris Pierce has always possessed one of the finest voices in americana, capable of conveying tenderness, conviction and quiet resilience […]

Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October

August 10, 2026 0

Western folk singer-songwriter and AUK favourite Margo Cilker has announced her third album, Little White Cross, due out October 9 via Fossil Records, a label Cilker recently launched with fellow musician ISMAY. The upcoming 10-song set […]

Month: December 2024

It’s the 2024 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year

I picked up the loaded dice – Jon Aird’s 2024 year in review

Fairport Convention’s Cropredy Festival 2025 line up revealed

Various Artists “Can’t Steal My Fire (The Songs of David Olney)”

Mince Pie Mondays – Is there any Brandy Cream left?

For The Sake Of The Song: Willie Nelson “Seven Spanish Angels”

Chris Pierce “Songs for the Heavy Hearted”

Margo Cilker unveils her “Little White Cross” for October

Kacy Lee Anderson to release debut solo album

Lance Cowan “The Air That You Breathe”