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Anna Tivel “Animal Poem”

August 26, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Anna Tivel reaches new heights on the song poetry of “Animal Poem”. Reading the publicity regarding Anna Tivel’s latest album is like trying to unravel a riddle wrapped up in an enigma. Tivel is quoted as […]
Album Reviews

Charley Crockett “Dollar A Day”

August 19, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Charley Crockett goes from strength to strength on his second major label release. There’s no doubt that Charley Crockett is on a roll. “Dollar A Day” is his 15th album, with his last four being released […]
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AUK Back Pages No. 17

August 8, 2025 Paul Kerr 1
Happy New Year! A new year and a new cover design for the monthly compilation CDs sent out to Friends of AUK (for a mere pittance in return). Unlike earlier years where the cover art remained […]
Album Reviews

AUK Shortcuts: Hadnot Creek, Rah Rah Rabbit, Gary Owens JR., Patton Magee, Odd Marshall, Lee Hunter & The Gatherers, KP Hawthorn, Florence Sommerville and Haystack Slim & The Broken Arrow

August 5, 2025 Paul Kerr 1
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently, which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites, […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: My Darling Clementine @ The Fallen Angels Club, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 27th July 2025

August 4, 2025 Paul Kerr 2
It was a good-sized crowd who packed into Glasgow’s Glad Café on a Sunday afternoon for a new series of occasional matinee sessions promoted by Kevin Morris’ Fallen Angels Club. The draw was the return, after […]

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Americana 25 festival comes to Liverpool in November with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more!

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We are mightily delighted to announce today full details for Americana 25, our celebration of 25 years of Americana UK which comes to two stages across Liverpool’s Rough Trade venue and Quaker Meeting House on Saturday […]
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Something for the weekend: Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats “Put the Message in the Box”

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Well that’s it from us for this week, an exciting day for us as we announce full details for our 25 year event which takes place in Liverpool later this year – you can find more […]
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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]

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Interviews

Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 1
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Katie Dahl “Wildwood” (Independent, 2019)

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Katie Dahl’s fifth album ‘Wildwood’ is a very personal affair centred around Door County, Wisconsin where her family has lived for six generations. There are umpteen examples of songwriters paying homage to their homelands or hometowns. […]
Album Reviews

Vickers Vimy “Atlas Of Hearts” (Vickers Vimy Music, 2018)

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For the record, the Vickers Vimy was a First World War bomber originally manufactured in County Mayo, Ireland and was the first aircraft to fly non-stop across the Atlantic. It’s also the name of this band […]
Book Reviews

Book Review: John Milward “Americanaland; Where Country & Western Met Rock ‘n’ Roll”

August 3, 2021 6
If, like many of us, you have struggled to explain your love of Americana music to lesser mortals or, more likely, faced the frequent question, “But what, exactly, is Americana” then you will be relieved to […]

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