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Live Review: Otis Gibbs, The Chapel, The Angel Microbrewery, Nottingham – 2nd June 2024

June 10, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
The Chapel sits above The Angel Brewery, a character pub set within a 17th century building that was originally two separate humble town houses. The earliest document showing that the site had become a drinking house […]
Album Reviews

Dana Cooper “Ghost of Tucumcari”

June 10, 2024 Lyndon Bolton 0
Celebrating a half-century of songwriting. Mention Tucumcari in a musical context and the next two words very often will be “Lowell” and “George” such is the resonance of his ‘Willin’. If Dana Cooper does not present […]
Tracks

Track Premiere: Tay Bronson “Kitchen Table”

June 10, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Tay Bronson’s latest single focuses on that bit of furniture that can so often become so much more than what it was originally planned for – sure, you can eat at the ‘Kitchen Table‘ but you […]
Videos

Video: Rosanne Cash “She Remembers Everything” (Behind the Scenes)

June 10, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
The summer festival season is upon us and one of our favourites, Black Deer, takes place in Eridge Park this coming weekend. There’s much to look forward to with headline acts Sheryl Crow, Rufus Wainwright and […]
Tracks

Something for the weekend: Blitzen Trapper “Upon the Chain”

June 7, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dearest of reader. I have been listening in the rare spare minutes I have had in recent days to the new album by Blitzen Trapper and reminiscing on […]

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Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026

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Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “4th of July”

July 3, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm tonight. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place […]
Leah Blevins
Live Reviews

Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026

July 3, 2026 0
Performances don’t get much more intimate when less than 50 people are in the front space of a record shop and the artist is playing unamplified, less than five feet away. In the autumn of 2025, […]
Album Reviews

Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen “They Call Us The Lucky Ones”

July 3, 2026 0
Americana royalty teams up with a cracking Texas band to produce a varied and highly enjoyable mix of country, soul and stomp. Ryan Bingham is a comparatively rare example of an americana artist who has broken […]

  • Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “4th of July”
  • Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026
  • Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen “They Call Us The Lucky Ones”
  • Americana Stories – Simon Lamont “Americana”
  • Our new supporters playlist is out later today – win a vinyl copy of Ashley McBryde’s new album
  • Classic Clips: Joni Mitchell “Coyote”, Gordon Lightfoot’s home, 1975
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  • Elizabeth Cook announces new album and narrative film
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Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0
It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]
Interviews

Interview: Jeff Finlin – the hero who journeys among us

July 1, 2026 0
In 2023, an AUK writer displayed exquisite taste by naming Jeff Finlin as one of the top ten greatest americana artists of all time. Congrats to Jeff, as well as, after all, he did record the […]
Interviews

Interview: Matt Patershuk writes songs for the small moments we all share

June 24, 2026 1
As an animal lover and caretaker of horses, dogs and cats, the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Patershuk certainly caught my attention. Dog Tiger Horses on Red Hen Records (2025) is green as grass, country-folk […]

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Aaron Rester “Americayana” (Bear Trap Spring, 2017)

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 The last we heard of Chicago based songwriter Aaron Rester was back in 2009 when we, along with the wider music community were hailing a possible new pioneering Americana breakthrough. The Lost Cartographers were country infused […]
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Lucinda Williams discusses Trump and Tornadoes on new podcast – Listen

July 28, 2020 1
Rolling Stone Country have posted a really interesting interview with Lucinda Williams who despite having a new album out has barely left her new home in East Nashville since the advent of the pandemic. RS calls […]
Tracks

Ella Spencer “Warning Signs” – always come too late

January 17, 2025 0
‘Warning Signs‘ is a slow but dramatic song from Ella Spencer – it’s a song for which the word foreboding was created.   Something bad has happened, and maybe there’s worse to come – as Ella notes […]

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