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  • [ August 24, 2026 ] For The Sake of The Song: Craig Finn “God in Chicago” Features
  • [ August 24, 2026 ] Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons “Panther Tracks Volume 2” Album Reviews
  • [ August 24, 2026 ] Sounds from beyond the Shed 250 “Edinburgh” Columns
  • [ August 24, 2026 ] Kelly Hunt “All The King’s Horses” – Love makes fools of us all Tracks
  • [ August 24, 2026 ] Video: Medium Build “Home Depot” – commiserations with the women stuck in the orbits of these men Videos
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Features

More People Should Really Know About: Agalisiga “Chuj” Mackey

August 4, 2026 Martin Johnson 0
If you listen to the social histories of British rock & roll musicians of the late fifties and early sixties, you’ll hear that they were influenced by the popularity of cowboy TV series and films. These […]
press shot Around About Dusk provided by band 16/06/2026
Album Reviews

AUK Shortcuts: Around About Dusk, Paul Mosley and The Red Meat Orchestra, Coldsville, The Roseline, Jim Reynolds, Long John Makkay, Clark Paterson, and Davis Wells

August 4, 2026 Bryan Bance 0
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently, which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites, […]
Album Reviews

Various Artists “Sittin’ with Blaze, A Tribute to Blaze Foley”

August 4, 2026 Jeremy Clarke-Williams 0
A timely and heartfelt tribute to the late, lamented Blaze Foley reminds us of the ongoing quality and influence of a great songwriter. What is the ‘various artists’ tribute album for? Most obviously, it provides an […]
News

Ian Noe announces new album with September release

August 4, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0
Ian Noe has announced the release of his third studio album, Canyon Falls Trailer Band, on 25th September 2026 via Thirty Tigers. Canyon Falls Trailer Band is a 16-song concept album drawing on sounds from folk-rock […]
Tracks

Tom Waits “The Fly” – no Jeff Goldblum

August 4, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
You may recall that a while ago we got all excited about using something from Massive Attack for the first time on the site.  And if you do then you may also recall that it was […]

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Craig Finn performs solo

For The Sake of The Song: Craig Finn “God in Chicago”

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Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons “Panther Tracks Volume 2”

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 250 “Edinburgh”

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Kelly Hunt

Kelly Hunt “All The King’s Horses” – Love makes fools of us all

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Video: Medium Build “Home Depot” – commiserations with the women stuck in the orbits of these men

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Craig Finn performs solo
Features

For The Sake of The Song: Craig Finn “God in Chicago”

August 24, 2026 0
I am sure many of you will know of Craig Finn. The front man with The Hold Steady has been applying his raspy form of talk-singing to their blend of indie punk and heartland rock since […]
Album Reviews

Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons “Panther Tracks Volume 2”

August 24, 2026 0
It’s more of the same from Jerry Joseph and his crack band and guests, as on Volume 1, but what a same to be more of! Jerry Joseph is fan favourite and greatly loved at AUK […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 250 “Edinburgh”

August 24, 2026 0
Spent last weekend in Edinburgh, where Mrs H was singing with her gospel choir. It was a joyous and raucous weekend full of laughs and drinks, stairs and steps, and some fabulous shows. It goes without […]

  • For The Sake of The Song: Craig Finn “God in Chicago”
  • Jerry Joseph and The Jackmormons “Panther Tracks Volume 2”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 250 “Edinburgh”
  • Kelly Hunt “All The King’s Horses” – Love makes fools of us all
  • Video: Medium Build “Home Depot” – commiserations with the women stuck in the orbits of these men
  • Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”
  • Alicia Blue “Country Desire”
  • Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015
  • LA band Big Trouble to release their debut album “On Elephant Hill”
  • Devyn Brinsfield “Dreamers and Losers”
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Interviews

Interview: Issy Ferris and Archie Sylvester on why “It’s A Joy To Be Alive”

August 19, 2026 0
One thing everyone quickly learns as they get older is that time waits for no one, and that life continues its unstoppable flow forward. Americana UK has followed Ferris & Sylvester’s career since their first album, […]
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Interviews

Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]
Interviews

Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]

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Book Reviews

Book Review – Chris Gregory “Determined to Stand-The Reinvention of Bob Dylan”

November 4, 2021 0
“I consider myself a poet first and a musician second, I live like a poet and I’ll die like a poet…” said Bob Dylan in 1978. It is Chris Gregory’s first quote and a line to […]
Tracks

Father John Misty “The Payoff” – read the small print, sucker

May 20, 2026 0
Here’s a song that doesn’t offer much in the way of optimism, talking as it does of deals, probably of the shady kind, and a world that ought to get you, and, hey, get this, you […]
Videos

Video: CC Smugglers “Dirty Money”

July 12, 2017 0
The new single from CC Smugglers, one of the best live bands on the planet.  On the road in November and at festivals in the summer, don’t miss ’em!

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