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Still searching for the Holy Grail, a 10/10 album, so keep sending them in.
Live Reviews

Live Review: Doghouse Roses + Kim Oehme with Cahalen Morrison, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 30th October 2021

November 10, 2021 Paul Kerr 0
It’s still enough of a novelty to go to a gig that much of the pleasure is derived from seeing faces from the past and catching up after almost two years of enforced isolation. Sure enough, […]
Album Reviews

Billy Bragg “The Million Things That Never Happened”

November 5, 2021 Paul Kerr 0
Bragg returns with a remarkable album on the human cost of the pandemic while still finding time to protest. Billy Bragg has certainly moved on from his days as a one-man band, building up an impressive […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang : Steve Earle “CCKMP (Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain)”

November 1, 2021 Paul Kerr 0
In last week’s Chain Gang we had Johnny Cash cavorting and killing around the wild west and, at the end of his song, ‘Cocaine Blues’, advising the listener to “lay off that whiskey and let that […]
Album Reviews

Johnny Cash “Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968”

October 27, 2021 Paul Kerr 0
Johnny Cash swaps prisoners for hippies as he moves from Folsom Prison to Haight Ashbury back in 1968. Folk might argue as to what the high point of Johnny Cash’s lengthy career was – the Sun […]
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Classic Clips : Nils Lofgren with Grin

October 22, 2021 Paul Kerr 1
No apologies here for going back to the dark old days of 1973, another world really when it was still legal to discriminate against half of the UK population on the grounds that they were women. […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Alexandra King

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Irish-American singer/songwriter Alexandra King is the featured performer on this video for Americana UK’s mini-gig series. Music has been central to King’s life from the beginning. Raised in a musical family, she first stepped onstage at […]
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Live Review: Clover County, Rough Trade East and London Highways Festival, 14th-16th May 2026

May 28, 2026 0
Clover County is a much-travelled but now Athens, Georgia-based singer-songwriter, who, following good reviews for her debut full-length album, Finer Things, travelled to the East side of the Atlantic and has been touring with Jack van […]
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Album Reviews

Andy Hedges “The Westerner”

May 28, 2026 0
Texas Cowboy poet breathes new life into legendary American genre. Andy Hedges lives cowboy lore. Born in 1980 to an Italian teacher and a former rodeo clown turned preacher, he grew up in an old farmhouse […]

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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

May 27, 2026 0
If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3
Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: My Girl The River

April 23, 2020 0
Lockdown continues.  Although we’re apart, we’re all in this together.  One of the things music lovers are missing is the opportunity to go out and see live shows.  To help make up for that, we are […]
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Video: Jerry Leger “Canvas Of Gold”

September 19, 2019 0
Jerry Leger’s new album ‘Time For Tomorrow‘ is out on November 8th.  This is the first single from it and it’s a great song.  Interesting video to go with it too.
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Mike West “Rock Ferry” – Listen

April 15, 2021 0
If you look on a map Americana UK Towers is somewhere in South Liverpool, and from our turret we can see over the Mersey to the Wirral, birthland of your always swimming against the tide (river) […]

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