Features
Things I Love Which Aren’t Americana: Maps and Charts
All the world on a piece of paper. A map is a thing of beauty and that’s why I’ve got several on my walls. There’s a 1947 Bartholomew map of The Lakes (so different from the […]
Articles by Gordon Sharpe
Features
AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Gordon Sharpe
I still feel when writing an article of this sort that someone might sneak up behind me and say ‘aha’ and ‘got you’. It lays bare the limitations of my listening. Either I fill in gaps […]
Album Reviews
Fred Wickham Caravan “Town Without Soul”
Plenty to admire from an experienced musician with views on affairs of the heart and a range of influences. Fred Wickham and his caravaners hail from Kansas City and Wickham has apparently been a fixture in […]
Book Reviews
Paperback Riders: John Steinbeck “Travels with Charley”
Fact, fiction – or an entertaining mix of the two? In my personal reading and that related to the Paperback Rider articles one book has cropped up a number of times as something of a touchstone […]
Features
Peter Bogdanovich’s “Very Last Picture Show” revisited
A classic film of the 1970s’ – with its lonesome cheating heart in Texas. Film director Peter Bogdanovich died on the 6th of January this year – the news of which brought to mind what I would […]