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Interview: Dean Owens on hooking up with Calexico and beating the lockdown blues

January 26, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

Edinburgh’s Dean Owens kicks off the New Year with a Celtic Connections showcase followed by an ambitious schedule of releases recorded with Tucson’s Calexico At the beginning of 2020, the year looked promising for Dean Owens. […]

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What is Americana?

January 26, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

Sorry to say, dear friends, that we’re not going to answer this question here. However, we’ve teamed up with Country In The UK to pose this question to a few UK acts in the week that […]

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Gillian Welch’s Grammy nominated “All The Good Times” to be released on CD and vinyl

January 25, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings have confirmed that their Grammy nominated ‘All The Good Times’, a new collection of ten acoustic covers recorded at home on a reel-to-reel, will be available on CD on March 5th […]

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Interview : One Hundred Years Of Songitude with Peter Stampfel

January 20, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

The legendary Peter Stampfel talks to AUK about his magnum opus, 100 songs plucked from all 100 years of the 20th Century As one-half of the legendary Holy Modal Rounders, Peter Stampfel was one of the […]

Album Reviews

Steve Earle & The Dukes “J.T.”

December 23, 2020 Paul Kerr 0

Steve Earle pays tribute to his late son, Justin, on a very emotive album You’d need a heart of stone not to be touched by Steve Earle’s latest “tribute” album. Previously he has released ‘Townes’ and […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Jenn Grinels “Go Mine”

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Portland-based ‘indie Americana’ singer-songwriter goes soul-pop and jazz-blues, with mixed results According to the press material accompanying her new album, ‘Go Mine’, Portland ‘indie Americana’ artist Jenn Grinels has ‘eschewed the pristine production techniques you hear […]

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Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: the rest of the best

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We will be publishing our albums of the year from tomorrow starting with numbers 20-11, as chosen by AUK’s writing team. But which albums almost made the list? Here are those which didn’t quite reach the […]

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I’m With Her, Bush Hall, London, 30th January 2018

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In the intimate setting of Bush Hall, I’m With Her (Sarah Jarosz, Sara Watkins and Aoife O’Donovan) gathered around a single microphone; the only amplification used during the show, and opened their show with Little Lies […]

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