Mark Whitfield

Red River Dialect announce UK dates

January 10, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Red River Dialect describe themselves on their site as “a six strong band of human animals, brewing a lightly carbonated folk-rock from the psycho-spiritual malt of David Morris’ songwriting”. We rather liked their new record, which […]

Seasons greetings from Americana UK

December 22, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for this year dear readers. Thanks for all your support over the last 12 months which have been the busiest year yet for AUK in the sixteen years of our existence. (I […]

The votes have been counted! Here are the AUK readers poll 2017 results

December 22, 2017 Mark Whitfield 2

So here we are again as Peter Cetera sang to Cher back in 1989 – another year over, another end of year AUK poll and YOU have been hoovering up americana like nobody’s business, but with […]

Port Cities set sail for the UK in 2018

December 21, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Canadian band Port Cities are still bathing in the afterglow of November’s Nova Scotia Music Week, where they scooped no less than five awards, including album of the year, digital artist of the year and entertainer of […]

Here they are! AUK writers’ best albums of 2017

December 21, 2017 Mark Whitfield 6

Here at AUK towers we used to quite often fall out over our end of year list, and even the stronger among us walked away in a sea of blood, sweat and tears (the things). It […]