Mark Whitfield

Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Kentucky Too Long”

February 13, 2026 Mark Whitfield 1

Well, that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you with new music – again, the man is like a singles conveyor belt – from critically acclaimed country iconoclast Charley Crockett. In his brand new […]

Preview: Blues guitarist extraordinaire Samantha Fish heads to UK for dates

February 13, 2026 Mark Whitfield 1

As regular readers will know, our delicate ears can’t cope with too much noise these days but one artist we are prepared to turn our hearing-aids up for is Kansas City, Missouri’s Samantha Smith who in […]

Something for the weekend: Billy Bragg “City of Heroes”

February 6, 2026 Mark Whitfield 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 and it could be you who wins the pair of tickets for the Cambridge […]

Our new supporters playlist comes out today with our best giveaway yet – win a pair of weekend tickets to the Cambridge Folk Festival 2026!

February 6, 2026 Mark Whitfield 0

If you’re not subscribing to our monthly supporters newsletter you’ll be missing out on our exclusive supporters playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month which this month includes new tracks by […]

Here are the americana and country winners from the 2026 GRAMMYS

February 3, 2026 Mark Whitfield 1

Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the last 48 hours you’ll have seen the extensive coverage of this year’s GRAMMYS which featured the usual array of costumes, curveballs and a healthy-dose of ICE bashing […]

Video: Rachael Sage & The Sequins “Nexus (Acoustic)”

July 1, 2026 0

The new single from New York City-based musician and activist Rachael Sage is beautiful in every sense: the song’s theme and sentiment have real meaning; it’s gorgeously arranged and performed; and the accompanying video makes its […]

More People Really Should Know About: David Borné

June 30, 2026 1

On Singing Machine, Microphone, the final track on David Borné’s 2023 debut Genesis, he sings of the unbridled, innocent joy of making music during childhood for nothing but the pure love of it. It’s a soaring […]

Ian Prowse “No Names”

June 30, 2026 0

Impassioned energy and emotionally charged politics from Merseyside luminary. Ian Prowse has been making music for more than thirty years, first with indie band Pele, then forming the band Amsterdam in 1999, and now releasing albums […]

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