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News

Black Deer Radio unveils new show featuring AUK stalwart Keith Hargreaves

July 10, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s not often we celebrate one of our own, but this week, news editor and all round good fella Keith Hargreaves, will start a news-based weekly show for the Americana Music station Black Deer Radio. The […]

Tracks

Matt Hill “Save Your Pity” – a life lived without regrets

July 7, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

These days five years seems like an entire lifetime so cast your mind back if you will to the spring of 2020 where while the world was wrestling with the Covid-19 pandemic, there were still musical […]

Videos

Something for the weekend: Shaboozey “Good News”

July 4, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. I can’t let this week pass by without mentioning the ‘Mark and Kyle’ song which we ran earlier today, written by my good friend Drew Danburry […]

News

Charley Crockett announces new album “Dollar a Day”

July 4, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

The ever prolific Charley Crockett will release his second album of 2025 “Dollar A Day” on August 8th via Island Records. Once again joined by creative kindred spirit co-producer Shooter Jennings, the new LP marks the […]

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Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win tickets to see Fanny Lumsden live

July 4, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Willi Carlisle, Counting Crows, Icarus Phoenix, Jeffrey Martin and […]

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Rough, rowdy and relentless – Dylan hits the UK in November… again!

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Ann Liu Cannon “No You Don’t” – are you sure?

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  • Rough, rowdy and relentless – Dylan hits the UK in November… again!
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Interviews

Behind the Songs: Chris Stamey “Anything Is Possible”

July 10, 2025 0

North Carolina singer-songwriter and producer Chris Stamey is an indie rock icon with a long and illustrious history, starting in the mid-70s with Mitch Easter in the band Sneakers, then co-founding the avant-pop band The dBs […]

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Interview: Michelle Billingsley on honky-tonkin’ and two-steppin’

July 2, 2025 0

It was a windy, wintry January day in Chicago when June, Michelle Billingsley’s 50-pound Australian Shepherd, jumped up beside her on the couch. “Yeah, she saw me putting on my makeup, which usually means I’m going […]

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Interview: Swarme of Beese finds more poetry in darkness than in light

June 30, 2025 0

The term mutant folk seems to fit. In the band’s early days, before The Victor Mourning emerged from the pupa into an adult Swarme of Beese, their songs elicited unusual receptions. Co-songwriter Lynne Adele recalls performing […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 48

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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