Mark Whitfield

Fancy covering live shows or new albums for us?

July 1, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s time for one of our occasional reach-outs. AUK is seeking enthusiastic writers to join our team and review new albums and/or live shows in the UK. There is no remuneration, but there is a lot […]

Something for the weekend: Grant McLennan “Horsebreaker Star”

June 27, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1

That’s it from us for another week dear reader. I was chatting to one of our writers earlier this week about my love for Grant McLennan, one half of course of the seminal Australian band The […]

Something for the weekend: Tom Petty “Crawling Back to You”

June 20, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for another week dear reader. We wanted to give a special shout out to twice winner of Americana radio show of the year in previous AUK readers polls, Mike Ritchie who last […]

Something for the weekend: Brian Wilson “Love and Mercy”

June 13, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, and who else could we leave you with than The Beach Boys’ Brian Wilson who died earlier this week. I think I’d heard Beach Boys songs […]

Margo Price returns with new album “Hard Headed Woman”

June 12, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Margo Price has announced the release of new album “Hard Headed Woman”, described as “a hell-bent collection of country music that reconnects with her roots and further redefines what it means to be a modern outlaw”, […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
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@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
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Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
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The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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XTC - A Coat of Many Cupboards (excerpts...it's a 4 CD ...
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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1

Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

May 15, 2026 0

Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]

Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”

May 15, 2026 0

Patrick Joseph O’Connor’s Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community reclaims an overlooked part in American musicology. While places like Chicago, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta often dominate the story of Blues, O’Connor suggests that […]

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