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Fleet Fox Pecknold Working on New Solo Album

October 18, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0
Pitchfork excitingly reports: “Robin Pecknold has released some songs this year and has maintained that Fleet Foxes are at work on a new record. Today, he shared a snippet of music that’s apparently intended for an upcoming solo album. “FF record kind […]
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Alison Krauss to Release First Solo Album in 17 Years

October 17, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0
17 years.  Seven-teen years.  Before George W Bush, Facebook and Strictly.   How did we live?  Rolling Stone reports: ” Ask Alison Krauss about her new album, and chances are she’ll begin talking about a man named Buddy […]
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Win Uncle Lucius Tickets, Albums, T-Shirts with Americana UK!

October 14, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0
A reminder for the weekend about our giveaway we’ve got running at the moment – it could be you! Country-infused southern rock band Uncle Lucius return to the UK later this month for a 7 date […]
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Video Premier: The Dreaming Spires “The Road Less Travelled”

October 14, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0
A year on from the trip that took the band to Nashville, for AmericanaFest, and to Memphis, where they recorded for a day at the legendary Ardent Studios, home to Big Star and REM’s “Green”, cutting the […]
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Randy Newman Writes New “Putin” Song – Listen

October 14, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0
News from Pitchfork, although be warned – if you click through you get that picture of the man himself bare-chested riding a horse (Putin, not Randy Newman). They report: “Randy Newman has shared a new song, […]

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The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 8th Gretchen Peters “The Matador” (2012)

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Four songs received exactly the same score (so effectively 5th=) but we have separated them based on the number of votes they received from our writers. This is the first of today’s entries. This is the […]
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Today it’s good news and bad news – the first being that Eilen Jewell has a new single out, and the second being that it is accompanied by the announcement that after twenty years of touring […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

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Something for the weekend: Aoife O’Donovan ft. The Milk Carton Kids “More Than We Know”

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Well that’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a new collaboration between longtime AUK favourites the Milk Carton Kids and Irish-American singer and Grammy award-winning songwriter Aoife O’Donovan, best […]

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