Mark Whitfield

Wacos release new protest album “Resist!”

February 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you oh dear reader this weekend with news that just in time for the US primary season, Waco Brothers are releasing a collection of their songs about resistance and protest on February 28th, entitled […]

Hear Her Voice: Danni Nicholls announces UK Spring dates

February 5, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

With the wind in her sails from receiving three consecutive Americana Music Association UK award nominations (Album, Artist and Song of the year in 2017, 2018 & 2020 respectively) singer-songwriter Danni Nicholls has been an americana […]

Hear Lucinda Williams’ first track from her new album

February 5, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Lucinda Williams has got a new album out called ‘Good Souls Better Angels’ on April 24th via Highway 20/Thirty Tigers, the follow-up to 2017’s ‘This Sweet Old World’ (which was a rerecorded version of Williams’ 1992 album […]

Walled Garden Music Festival announced for July

February 4, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Nottingham’s Cosmic American Music has teamed up with the historic Thoresby Park in Sherwood Forest to curate a brand new Americana and Roots festival within the grounds of the estate in North Nottinghamshire, a stone’s throw […]

Passenger returns with UK dates and new song “Sandstorm”

January 31, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you on this exciting week for us here at AUK (my poor head…) with a new song from Passenger aka Mike Rosenberg who is back following his lovely 2017 americana album ‘Runaway’ which culminated […]

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

July 10, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place across 2 stages in Liverpool at the end of November and features Chuck Prophet and […]

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

July 10, 2026 0

Willy Vlautin is well known as the chief songwriter of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines, trading in beautifully written vignettes of the people who have generally fallen between the cracks of the American dream. These dark […]

Emmylou Harris, Mumford and Sons and Jerry Douglas

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

July 10, 2026 0

The evening before San Francisco’s 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival the Masonic Auditorium hosted a tribute concert to Emmylou Harris, the only artist to have graced the festival stages for each of its 25 years. During […]

Articles by Mark Whitfield

Wacos release new protest album “Resist!”

Hear Her Voice: Danni Nicholls announces UK Spring dates

Hear Lucinda Williams’ first track from her new album

Walled Garden Music Festival announced for July

Passenger returns with UK dates and new song “Sandstorm”

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

Les Thomas “I Remember Everything”

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring author and journalist Liz Thomson