Mark Whitfield

AmericanaFest UK 2020 Conference Showcase preview – part one

January 20, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

The AMAUK conference is now into its fifth year can you believe it. When it started, Brexit hadn’t happened, Ed Miliband looked like he was about to win the next election and you could still pop […]

Watch Yola’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert

January 20, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We are collectively big fans of Yola here at AUK as she swept the board for our readers poll in 2019 on the back of her critically acclaimed debut album ‘Walk Through Fire’ which is brimming […]

Watch Margo Price perform her new song “Stone Me”

January 17, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We leave you this week dear reader with the first new music from Nashville’s Margo Price in over 2 years which she performed earlier this week on Full Frontal With Samantha Bee. “After what feels like […]

Jim Lauderdale to release bluegrass album “When Carolina Comes Homes Again”

January 16, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

On the heels of 2019’s ‘From Another World’, two-time Grammy Award-winning Jim Lauderdale will release his 33rd album ‘When Carolina Comes Homes Again’ on March 6th via Yep Roc Records. You can listen to the first […]

Songs for the apocalypse: The Handsome Family “So Much Wine”

January 16, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

The Handsomes are one of those bands that feel so synonymous with what the americana genre means to me I feel they should be on the front of textbooks, with that rich combination of melody, atmosphere […]

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

AmericanaFest UK 2020 Conference Showcase preview – part one

Watch Yola’s NPR Tiny Desk Concert

Watch Margo Price perform her new song “Stone Me”

Jim Lauderdale to release bluegrass album “When Carolina Comes Homes Again”

Songs for the apocalypse: The Handsome Family “So Much Wine”

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