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Merry Christmas to all our readers from the AUK team

December 23, 2025 Mark Whitfield 5
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 typos, glitches and accidentally posting in the middle of the night. […]
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Here are the results of the Americana UK Readers’ Poll 2025

December 23, 2025 Mark Whitfield 14
So here we go again – as is tradition, on our last day of publishing for the year, we can share with you the results of this year’s readers poll in which hundreds of you voted […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: The Doobie Brothers

December 23, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
A couple of guys from college and I attended one of the Doobie Brothers’ shows back in the early ‘70s, and we couldn’t help but be fixated on this huge banner which stretched from one end […]
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More People Should Really Know About: Mark Jones

December 23, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
How much great music is left in the basements and attics of houses, behind a shelf in the backroom of a disused studio, abandoned in a box of dusty LPs? How much can we salvage and […]
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Morton Valence “Punch Drunk” – seeing the world through a blurred lens

December 23, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
There’s a couple of things that you’ll notice immediately about this new song from Morton Valence – the first is likely to be that it’s seasonally inappropriate, as Robert ‘Hacker’ Jessett sings “It was a cold […]

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Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

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Book review: Richard Houghton “Iain Matthews: A People’s History”

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

April 17, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
Interviews

Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

April 17, 2026 0
Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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Live Review: Wilco, Cain’s Ballroom, Tulsa, Oklahoma – 10th & 11th December 2024

December 19, 2024 0
It’s a chilly Wednesday afternoon and Tulsa’s Woody Guthrie Center is playing host to a signing event.  This was the deal: RSVP in advance for free entry (no day-of tickets available), endure a security check that […]
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Jesse Malin has new album coming, and a tour

July 16, 2021 0
Some good news comes our way from Jesse Malin – who not only has a new album ready to release but by jingo it’s a double album, the first of Malin’s career.  It’s called ‘Sad And […]
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Joe Troop “Mercy For Migrants”

August 31, 2021 0
Joe Troop releases ‘Mercy for Migrants‘, another powerfully poignant track from his forthcoming album, ‘Borrowed Time‘. As well as Troop’s rich, powerful vocal and plaintive fiddle, the track features the fabulous husband and wife banjo virtuosos, […]

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