Mark Whitfield

Our new AUK supporters playlist is out today – win tickets to see The Delines on UK tour next week

November 4, 2022 Mark Whitfield 1

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters including new tracks by Billy Strings, Dean Owens, The Attention Seekers and Alela Diane […]

Jesse Malin announces UK dates for 2023

November 2, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

New York based Jesse Malin is marking twenty years as a solo artist with a UK and European tour to celebrate the 20th Anniversary of his acclaimed 2003 debut album ‘The Fine Art Of Self Destruction’. […]

Something for the weekend: Paul Kelly “To Her Door”

October 28, 2022 Mark Whitfield 3

Well that’s it for another week dear reader and we leave you with an epic of a song you’ve never heard before, not unless you’re already familiar with Aussie legend Paul Kelly’s songs. ‘To Her Door’ […]

Something for the weekend: The Milk Carton Kids “Running on Sweet Smile”

October 21, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader. Half the world will no doubt be listening to the new Taylor Swift album today in which looking at the tracklist on Spotify she swears like a trooper […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Number 4 – Laura Cantrell “Not the Tremblin’ Kind” (2000)

October 18, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

I have always hated bombast in music, and if I had to chose one part of americana broadly speaking that I can’t bear it’s that kind of Southern Rock dirge which is as far away from […]