Mark Whitfield

Something for the weekend: Billy Strings “Long Journey Home”

October 14, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. We are having our annual writers’ get-together this week in Liverpool, our first since Covid – if you see a group of middle-aged men standing around […]

Something for the weekend: Brady Harris “Hotel in the Sky”

October 7, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that is IT for another week dear reader, there has been such a torrent of content over the last few days that we need to go into a dark room for a lie-down. Just before […]

Our new AUK supporters playlist is out today – win a copy of the new book “Rudy Lyle: The Unsung Hero of the Five-String Banjo”

October 7, 2022 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 including new tracks by Bonny Light Horseman, Charley Crockett, Beth Nielsen Chapman, Morgan Wade […]

Something for the weekend: 16 Tambourines “Sweet Libra”

September 30, 2022 Mark Whitfield 1

That’s it from us for another week dearest of readers and we leave you with new track ‘Sweet Libra’, the first studio recording from Liverpool’s 16 Tambourines in 32 years (who incidentally sound nothing like 16 […]

Something for the weekend: Angel Olsen & Sturgill Simpson “Big Time”

September 23, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for us from another week dear reader, and we leave you with a new version of a song we featured here on AUK a few months back from the wonderful Angel Olsen. It’s […]