Mark Whitfield

Jason Isbell to play livestream gig for album release day

May 13, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Jason Isbell’s new album ‘Reunions’ is out on Friday – our review should be landing with you tomorrow – and in celebration of its release, he’s announced a live performance of it from the Brooklyn Bowl […]

The Long Road 2020 postponed to next year

May 11, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Joining the long list of cancelled or postponed festivals due to the current Covid-19 outbreak is another casualty, the Long Road Festival which has been cancelled for this year but will take place in 2021 on […]

Jakob Dylan: “Don’t use technology – Play music together”

May 11, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Jakob Dylan has got a new film out soon, more details of which below. Ahead of its release he told the Observer in an interview over the weekend that although technology is allowing people to connect […]

Something for the (long) weekend: I See Hawks in LA/Great Willow “Radio Keeps Me on the Ground”

May 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s a wrap from us for this week dear reader. Enjoy your “stay at home” VE Day celebrations if you’re doing anything, remembering of course that we don’t have to live on the borrowed symbolism […]

Blitzen Trapper return with new album “Holy Smokes Future Jokes”

May 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We’re fans here at AUK of Portland, OR-based “competent” Blitzen Trapper (that’s what it says on their Twitter feed) and they’ve announced they will be making their Yep Roc Records debut with the release of new […]

Laura Cortese “Lucky Water”

October 5, 2026 0

Low-key folk with beautiful vocals and evocative, atmospheric, sensuous words. Laura Cortese grew up in San Francisco and discovered folk music through the fiddle camps she attended. She has toured with artists including The Mountain Goats […]

First Aid Kit & the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, live at the Royal Albert Hall, London - 30th September 2026

Live Review: First Aid Kit and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Albert Hall, London – 30th September 2026

October 5, 2026 0

Almost exactly 12 years after First Aid Kit first played the Royal Albert Hall, they’re back at the same venue, this time with the 65-piece Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra in tow, conducted by Erik Arvinder. Tickets went […]

Wynonna “Hear Me Now” – if only we could

October 5, 2026 0

Wynonna Judd has just released her latest album; it came out last Friday, and it is, she says, the most personal album of her career. For example, this single, which is about the complicated love, loss, […]

Articles by Mark Whitfield

Jason Isbell to play livestream gig for album release day

The Long Road 2020 postponed to next year

Jakob Dylan: “Don’t use technology – Play music together”

Something for the (long) weekend: I See Hawks in LA/Great Willow “Radio Keeps Me on the Ground”

Blitzen Trapper return with new album “Holy Smokes Future Jokes”

Laura Cortese “Lucky Water”

Live Review: First Aid Kit and the Gothenburg Symphony Orchestra, The Royal Albert Hall, London – 30th September 2026

Wynonna “Hear Me Now” – if only we could

Video: Charlie Sherbourne & The Nightbirds “All I Ever Wanted”

Some sad news to end the week with: Americana UK loses two of our best, Paul Kerr and Martin Johnson