Mark Whitfield

Something for the weekend: Tom Waits “New Year’s Eve”

January 5, 2024 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it for our short first week back after the Christmas break. Don’t forget you can win Mary Gauthier tickets if you’re one of our supporters – more on this here. Since we don’t update […]

Our new AUK supporters playlist is out today – win tickets to see Mary Gauthier live

January 5, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Our Man in the Field, Desolation Horse, Dori Freeman […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “4th of July”

July 3, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm tonight. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place […]

Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026

July 3, 2026 0

Performances don’t get much more intimate when less than 50 people are in the front space of a record shop and the artist is playing unamplified, less than five feet away. In the autumn of 2025, […]

Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen “They Call Us The Lucky Ones”

July 3, 2026 0

Americana royalty teams up with a cracking Texas band to produce a varied and highly enjoyable mix of country, soul and stomp. Ryan Bingham is a comparatively rare example of an americana artist who has broken […]

Articles by Mark Whitfield

Something for the weekend: Tom Waits “New Year’s Eve”

Our new AUK supporters playlist is out today – win tickets to see Mary Gauthier live

Happy New Year from all of us here at AUK

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

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

Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “4th of July”

Live Review: Leah Blevins, Rough Trade, Denmark Street, London – 26th June 2026

Ryan Bingham and The Texas Gentlemen “They Call Us The Lucky Ones”

Americana Stories – Simon Lamont “Americana”

Our new supporters playlist is out later today – win a vinyl copy of Ashley McBryde’s new album