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Features

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 […]
Features

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 […]
News

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 […]
Features

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 […]
News

Blitzen Trapper announce European tour dates

December 19, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Blitzen Trapper’s new album ‘Wild & Reckless’ has been getting some rather nice reviews from the likes of Mojo, The Independent and Clash and to celebrate the fact (or perhaps with no relation to that fact at all) have […]

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Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

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Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?

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The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Paul Sexton

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Convinced Friend “On Fire” – get the extinguishers

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Video: Stephen Wilson Jr. “Gary”

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News

Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

July 17, 2026 0
Or England tour to be precise. Tickets on sale from next Wednesday 22nd July. You may have heard of this artist we’ve mentioned on the site once or twice who goes by the name of Bob […]
Columns

Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?

July 17, 2026 0
“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act“, George Orwell. The country, truth be told, is going to hell in a handcart. Everything is bad. Everything. Nobody can afford anything. Nobody […]
News

The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Paul Sexton

July 17, 2026 0
This week’s podcast is as hot as the weather, featuring as it does an interview with seasoned music journo, author and broadcaster Paul Sexton from his home in Sutton after the recent publication of his latest […]

  • Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour
  • Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Paul Sexton
  • Convinced Friend “On Fire” – get the extinguishers
  • Video: Stephen Wilson Jr. “Gary”
  • Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for
  • Extra tickets released for Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn – Liverpool in November
  • Creekbed Carter Hogan “Peasants Revolt”
  • There’s a new album on a new label on the way from Jess Williamson
  • Americana Stories – Gary Marsden “Rialto and Rhiannon”
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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
Interviews

Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
Interviews

Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

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Videos

Video Premiere: The Great North Special “Love, Service, Devotion”

May 19, 2022 0
Now, this is music to lose yourself in.  ‘Love, Service, Devotion’ is a six-minute sonic journey that grows and and changes, moving through stages in which different instruments come to the fore.  Most notably, Albert Margolis […]
Tracks

Andy Shauf “Things I Do” – Listen

November 20, 2019 0
Andy Shauf’s 2016 album ‘The Party‘ was a really interesting singer-songwriter release featuring interconnecting songs and characters at the titular gathering.  He returns with his new album ‘The Neon Skyline’ which will be released on January […]
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Jason Isbell and 400 Unit play silo version of “24 Frames” – Watch

April 15, 2020 0
Jason Isbell has gathered his 400 Unit assemble who are currently scattered around Nashville in their own respective quarantine holes to perform a remote version of their classic ’24 Frames’. Although the track is a live […]

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