Mark Whitfield

Anti records to re-release Tom Waits’ entire 1970s Elektra Asylum catalogue

January 23, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Tom Waits’ first seven albums, originally released through Elektra Asylum Records in the 1970’s, have been re-mastered and will be re-released via Anti-Records. All titles, many of which have been long out of print, will be […]

Female country stars say “Time’s Up” – Watch

January 22, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Billboard reports this morning on a new Nashville-based songwriting collective Song Suffragettes which is taking a stand against discrimination and harassment with the song “Time’s Up” whose video made its debut on Friday and which you […]

Ennis Sisters and Dave Gunning announce UK Tour

January 22, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

The Ennis Sisters and Dave Gunning have announced UK dates through February including shows in York, Birmingham, Bury and London’s King’s Place on March 2nd (full dates below). The Ennis Sisters have returned to their roots on latest album “Stages”, […]

Track premiere: Oberon Rose “Tell Me All About It”

January 22, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Oberson Rose hail from New England, a band whose sound has been described as “…a wonderful retro-fried slice of rock and psychedelic pop”. The band have shared this new track with AUK which has some lovely Beatles […]

Loose Records to celebrate 20 years at the AMAUK conference

January 19, 2018 Mark Whitfield 1

Way back in 2001 when I first started Americana UK on a shoestring budget (not even a shoestring to be fair, it was zero) one of the first labels to kindly start sending us through stuff […]