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Something for the weekend: Ruston Kelly “Belly of the Beast”

December 1, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. If you’re an AUK supporter, your new playlist will be winging its way to you at 5pm tonight, along with our exclusive “The Best Americana I’ve […]

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It’s the 2023 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year

December 1, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Now with just six categories – why take two bottles into the shower when you can just vote and go? So it’s that time of year again when we launch our annual readers poll in which […]

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UK Americana Awards 2024 nominations announced

November 28, 2023 Mark Whitfield 3

The UK’s annual celebration of Americana and Roots music, UK Americana Music Week, powered by Sweet Home Alabama, returns to Hackney in London from 22nd – 25th January 2024. Themed Growing Our Roots in Americana, the […]

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Something for the weekend: Blitzen Trapper “Millions of Billions”

November 24, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for this week – apologies for the site gremlins again, you’d think with Christmas coming up they’d have other fish to fry. We leave you anyway dear reader with a new […]

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Sheryl Crow announced as first headliner for Black Deer 2024

November 23, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Sheryl Crow has been around for an eternity since her favourite mistake not making her happy back in the 90s, but these days is better known as a country musicians, and with that hat one she […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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

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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 […]

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Video Premiere: The Sweet Things “Ain’t Got Enough Room (In My Heart)”

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Check out the new single from New York band The Sweet Things.  ‘Ain’t Got Enough Room (In My Heart)’ is a bluesy country ballad about failed romance and broken relationships.  The song steadily builds to it’s […]

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Video Premiere: MOONRIIVR “Mother to Me”

December 18, 2023 0

The latest single from Canadian group MOONRIIVR is short but beautifully formed and performed.  The combination of James Robertson’s twanging electric guitar and Ben Whiteley’s woozy upright bass is sublime and, with Lyle Molzan’s shuffling rhythms, […]

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AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Number 3 – Lucinda Williams “Car Wheels On A Gravel Road”

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Once the AUK writers’ votes started to come in, it soon became clear that there was a top-five breakaway. Already this week we have revealed our equal fourth albums that were part of that breakaway. Now […]

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