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cover art for Tom Letson & the Letdown album "There's A Hole In My Head Where My Brain Used To Be"

Tom Letson & the Letdown “There’s A Hole In My Head Where My Brain Used To Be”

August 20, 2025 Graeme Tait 0

The sound of old-time Appalachia and pre-war blues echoes through this debut album, inspired by life on the road. Musician and visual artist Tom Letson has spent much of his adult life tramping around North America, […]

Hayes Carll “We’re Only Human”

August 20, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 0

An inward muse. After a series of releases culminating in what many considered to be his best to date “You Get It All” in 2021, Hayes Carll had gone quiet on the recording front. Frequently compared […]

Interview: Tami Neilson’s True Roots Celebration

August 20, 2025 Brian D'Ambrosio 0

Tami Neilson’s “Neon Cowgirl” is a true roots celebration. Her own roots, that is, which she has continued to care for, nurture, and give water. Neilson jumped into the music business more than 35 years ago […]

Eliza Gilkyson “Dark Ages”

August 20, 2025 Fiona Golden 0

Hope transcends palpable anger. In Eliza Gilkyson’s world, shadowy politicians, warhawks, and chauvinists are Shakespearean in their destruction, pride sealing their fate and dooming them to repeat the past. In the wake of the US invasion […]

Preview: The Long Road Festival of Country, Americana and Roots, 22nd-24th August Stanford Hall Leicestershire

August 20, 2025 David Jarman 0

The Long Road festival, combining country, Americana and roots, is an annual fixture in my diary – taking place over the bank holiday weekend at Stanford Hall, Leicestershire, which falls on the 22nd to 24th August […]

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 […]

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, […]

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 […]

Year: 2025

Tom Letson & the Letdown “There’s A Hole In My Head Where My Brain Used To Be”

Hayes Carll “We’re Only Human”

Interview: Tami Neilson’s True Roots Celebration

Eliza Gilkyson “Dark Ages”

Preview: The Long Road Festival of Country, Americana and Roots, 22nd-24th August Stanford Hall Leicestershire

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