2025 – Page 319 – Americana UK

Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Game I Can’t Win”

March 21, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a song from the new album by Charley Crockett “Lonesome Drifter” which we glowingly reviewed earlier this […]

Chris Eckman “The Land We Knew The Best”

March 21, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 0

Total absorbtion from the mountains of Slovenia. For this, his seventh solo album, Chris Eckman introduces a more layered, richer feel than its predecessor. The languid vocals that alone generate so much atmosphere remain but he […]

Classic Clips: Sturgill Simpson “Could You Love Me One More Time” (Live on KEXP @Pickathon), 2013

March 21, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

Anyone who had the good fortune to catch this fella during his recent European tour will hopefully have been as impressed as I was with his performance at the Barrowland Ballroom. The last time Sturgill Simpson […]

Book Review: Pete Kennedy “Tone, Twang and Taste: A Guitar Memoir”

March 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

The whole things started with me saying “yes.” Pete Kennedy has written his memoir with the same plainspoken elegance as the records he has made with his musical partner and wife, Maura Kennedy. He spins some […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Kirsten Haze

March 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Kirsten Haze has been one half of The Haze and Dacey Collective with John Dacey and supporting musicians. She also plays solo gigs, which is what you are seeing in this instalment of AUK’s Mini-Gig series. […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

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