Mark Whitfield

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

artwork for Mistaken For Wayne album "Whitefish"

Mistaken for Wayne “Whitefish”

October 2, 2026 0

Musical pursuits in the heart of rural Canadian life. Not only outside the music industry but within its margins (much less frequently at its very core), there are those for whom music is one of several […]

Jake Bugg announces a fortnight of intimate record store appearances

October 2, 2026 0

To celebrate the release of his new album Alamo, which will be released on 13th November 2026 on Thirty Tigers, Jake Bugg has announced he will celebrate the release with a run of November in-store dates. […]

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Classic Clips: Chris Hillman “Turn! Turn! Turn!” – Live at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, 2017

October 2, 2026 0

In another part of the AUK jungle, I’ve been reading Chris Hillman’s autobiography, Time Between: My Life as a Byrd, Burrito Brother and Beyond, for an upcoming Paperback Riders article. And it gave me reason to […]

Articles by Mark Whitfield

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

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

UK Americana Awards 2024 nominations announced

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

Sheryl Crow announced as first headliner for Black Deer 2024

Mistaken for Wayne “Whitefish”

Jake Bugg announces a fortnight of intimate record store appearances

Classic Clips: Chris Hillman “Turn! Turn! Turn!” – Live at the Troubadour, Los Angeles, 2017

The Oystermen “Darn Tootin”

Our new supporters playlist is out today – win a pair of tickets to 2027’s Cambridge Folk Festival