2025 – Page 157 – Americana UK

Something for the weekend: Margo Price “Losing Streak”

August 8, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, and we leave you with a new track from Margo Price who revisits her earliest days in Nashville on ‘Losing Streak’, sleeping off a three-day party […]

Video: Dug “Have At It” – a distinct and original take on contemporary folk

August 8, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Comprised of Californian multi-instrumentalist Jonny Pickett and Scottish-American artist Lorkin O’Reilly, whose solo work has quietly generated over 26 million Spotify streams, DUG have firmly established themselves as one of the most unique and relatable forces […]

AUK Back Pages No. 17

August 8, 2025 Paul Kerr 1

Happy New Year! A new year and a new cover design for the monthly compilation CDs sent out to Friends of AUK (for a mere pittance in return). Unlike earlier years where the cover art remained […]

Classic Clips: Paul Simon Performs “The Only Living Boy in New York” at Barnes and Noble, 2008

August 8, 2025 Andy Short 0

Paul Simon has an incredible catalogue of music behind him, going all the way back to the 1950s. As half of the folk duo Simon and Garfunkel, he had great success before going on to record […]

Paperback Riders: Philip Roth “The Plot Against America”

August 8, 2025 Tim Martin 4

Where America Might Go Next Part 3. Paperback Riders has definitely disappeared down a rabbit hole of speculative fiction this year. Philip Roth’s 2004 novel ‘The Plot Against America’ is particularly unsettling not because it ventures […]

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

Something for the weekend: Margo Price “Losing Streak”

Video: Dug “Have At It” – a distinct and original take on contemporary folk

AUK Back Pages No. 17

Classic Clips: Paul Simon Performs “The Only Living Boy in New York” at Barnes and Noble, 2008

Paperback Riders: Philip Roth “The Plot Against America”

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