Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ February 17, 2026 ] Josiah brings his Bonnevilles with him for his latest album News
  • [ February 17, 2026 ] Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild” Behind the Songs
  • [ February 17, 2026 ] Linzi Jane Morgan “Love & Other Stories” Album Reviews
  • [ February 17, 2026 ] Breakfield “Ever-Loving Mind” – Under love’s heavy burden do I sink Tracks
  • [ February 17, 2026 ] Video Premiere: Andy Hanson “Gravity” Videos
HomeAuthorsMark Whitfield

Articles by Mark Whitfield

About Mark Whitfield
Editor of Americana UK website, the UK's leading home for americana news and reviews since 2001 (when life was simpler, at least for the first 253 days)
Other stuff

Happy New Year from all of us here at AUK

January 4, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Morning! Happy new year to you dear reader, we hope you had a good one whatever you got up to. We are back today for the next 352 with our usual a la carte menu of […]

News

Happy Christmas from all of us here at AUK – 7,729 reasons to donate to this Gaza appeal if you can

December 22, 2023 Mark Whitfield 8

Well that’s it from us for another year dear reader. Before we head off, I must give a shout out to both Rick Bayles, our Books Editor, and Alan Fitter, our EPs Editor, who are both […]

Features

Here are the results of the Americana UK Readers’ Poll 2023

December 22, 2023 Mark Whitfield 3

Well here they are – as always on our last day of publishing for the year, we can share with you the results of this year’s readers poll, one of the busiest we’ve had in recent […]

Features

Americana UK’s Top 20 Albums of 2023: Part Two, 10-1

December 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

After huddling with a bottle of parfait amour and a chopping board, we Americana UK writers have nailed down our top 20 albums of 2023. How did we do it? Every writer selected their album of […]

Features

Americana UK’s Top 20 Albums of 2023: Part One, 20-11

December 20, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1

Here at AUK Towers, like all loving families, we fight – a lot – over who has used the last of the milk, left the washing up in the sink, accidentally locked the cat in the […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 41 42 43 … 437 »

Donate to Americana UK

If you enjoy what you're reading and don't want to support us on a monthly basis, you can help us keep this site free from looking like one of those awful REACH sites by making a one off donation towards our running costs. We all do this in our spare time! THANK YOU.

Recent Forum Posts

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    @andyshort A brilliant album

    By Paul Kerr , 10 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    10,000 Maniacs - Blind Man’s Zoo

    By Joe Nathan , 10 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    R.E.M. - Out of Time

    By Joe Nathan , 12 hours ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    @peterthompson Thanks Peter - good shout - Meat Loaf RI...

    By Jonathan Hincks , 12 hours ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Mick Fleetwood and Friends Celebrate the Music of Peter...

    By Peter Thompson , 14 hours ago

  • RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    @jonathanhincks Steve Earle Someday "Now my brother ...

    By Peter Thompson , 14 hours ago

  • RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    Glad I'm not alone even if I'm late to the party as eve...

    By Mark Whitfield , 15 hours ago

  • RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    @markamericana Yes, very good. Not black and white in i...

    By Martin Johnson , 17 hours ago

  • RE: What are you watching at the moment?

    @markamericana yes, watched it a while ago now, really ...

    By Viv Fish , 17 hours ago

our latest posts

Josiah brings his Bonnevilles with him for his latest album

News
February 17, 2026 0

Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

Behind the Songs
February 17, 2026 0
Artwork for Linzi Jane Morgan's album "Love & Other Stories"

Linzi Jane Morgan “Love & Other Stories”

Album Reviews
February 17, 2026 0

Breakfield “Ever-Loving Mind” – Under love’s heavy burden do I sink

Tracks
February 17, 2026 0

Video Premiere: Andy Hanson “Gravity”

Videos
February 17, 2026 0

  • Josiah brings his Bonnevilles with him for his latest album
  • Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”
  • Linzi Jane Morgan “Love & Other Stories”
  • Breakfield “Ever-Loving Mind” – Under love’s heavy burden do I sink
  • Video Premiere: Andy Hanson “Gravity”
  • For The Sake Of The Song: Cowboy Junkies “Sweet Jane”
  • Sarah McQuaid shares dates for extensive North Europe and UK tours
  • Evan Honer “Everything I Wanted (& more)”
  • Anniversary Cheers – Willie Nelson’s “Country Music” celebrates a 15 year re-release
  • Valerie Smith “Maggie’s Journal”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • keith hargreaves: Hi Thomas please see the reply above and I would add that on another day there may well have been…
  • Thomas Stephens: No women in country music then?
  • Keith Hargreaves: Great article, Tim. The track is also featured at 38 minutes in on the most recent AUK Podcast (18) -…

Latest interviews

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

Interviews

Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 1

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

Behind the Songs

Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

You may have missed…

Album Reviews

Kathleen Edwards “Total Freedom” (Dualtone Records, 2020)

August 5, 2020 0

In 2014, having released four studio albums, Kathleen Edwards returned home from yet another promotional tour for her 2012 album, ‘Voyageur’, put away her guitar and stepped back from the business. The hamster wheel of writing/recording/touring/repeat […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Palomino Kings “Any Time At All”

October 1, 2020 0

An absorbing melody, excellent guitar work and engaging hooks are features of the brand new single from Palomino Kings.  For the video, the band perform live in the sunshine, which seems fitting for this bright, splash […]

Album Reviews

Winhill/Losehill “The Grief”

March 14, 2023 0

Confident third album from Swedish band with a number of high points. ‘The Grief’ is the third album from Swedish band Winhill/Losehill and features twelve new songs from the songwriting duo of Jonas Svennem (composer) and […]

© Americana UK 2025, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool