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About Richard Parkinson
London based self-diagnosed music junkie with tastes extending to all points of big tent americana and beyond. Fan of acts and songs rather than genres.
Live Reviews

Live Review: Maya de Vitry + Joel Timmons, Green Note, London – 21st April 2024

April 25, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
An unusually cold April evening saw a good-sized crowd gathering at the Green Note on a Sunday evening to see the return of Maya De Vitry to North London. De Vitry, accompanied on guitars and backing […]
News

New eleven song Johnny Cash announced for June

April 25, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
The emergence of new material from the late Johnny Cash is always special and a collection of songs written by the great man even more so.  The announcement of the release of ‘Songwriter’ via Mercury Nashville […]
News

A bluegrass tribute to Bob Seger is on the way

April 24, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
A project more than ten years in gestation, Lonesome Day Records will be releasing an all-star bluegrass tribute to Bob Seger, ‘Silver Bullet Bluegrass’, on 12th July 2024 via Sony/The Orchard. The project first came to […]
News

Old Man Luedecke to release new album “She Told Me Where To Go”

April 23, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Old Man Luedecke will release his latest album ‘She Told Me Where To Go’ on 24th  May 2024. The album had its genesis in the pandemic when Luedecke began going out to sea on a scallop […]
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Steve Dawson to release new album “Ghosts”

April 22, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Chicago-based singer-songwriter Steve Dawson has announced the release of his latest album ‘Ghosts’ on Pravda Records on 14th June 2024. The album’s ten songs were largely written between 2017 and 2023, and combine “intimate confessions and […]

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John Prine August 2016

The Top Ten Americana Song of All Time: 2nd – John Prine “Angel From Montgomery” (1971)

Features
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Album cover artwork for Cut Worms "Transmitter"

Cut Worms “Transmitter”

Album Reviews
April 9, 2026 0
Madi Diaz Live 29th October 2022

Essentials: The Top 10 Madi Diaz Songs

Essentials
April 9, 2026 2
artwork for The Builders and The Butchers album "No Tomorrow"

The Builders and The Butchers “No Tomorrow”

Album Reviews
April 9, 2026 0

Scotland Bluegrass Festival announces details of line up and expanded location – it’s got Biggar!

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John Prine August 2016
Features

The Top Ten Americana Song of All Time: 2nd – John Prine “Angel From Montgomery” (1971)

April 9, 2026 0
Almost there! There was never much doubt that John Prine would be represented in this list, and, although a number of his songs appeared in the original writers’ lists, the iconic and most covered song of […]
Album cover artwork for Cut Worms "Transmitter"
Album Reviews

Cut Worms “Transmitter”

April 9, 2026 0
This guitar-based pop, produced by Jeff Tweedy, is a departure from previous work. Cut Worms is singer-songwriter Max Clarke, originally from Ohio, but now living in New York. This is his fourth full-length album after Cut […]
Madi Diaz Live 29th October 2022
Essentials

Essentials: The Top 10 Madi Diaz Songs

April 9, 2026 2
Madi Diaz has always known she wanted to be a musician. Growing up in a Quaker household in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, her parents rejected a mainstream education for her and her brother, instead home schooling them, […]

  • The Top Ten Americana Song of All Time: 2nd – John Prine “Angel From Montgomery” (1971)
  • Cut Worms “Transmitter”
  • Essentials: The Top 10 Madi Diaz Songs
  • The Builders and The Butchers “No Tomorrow”
  • Scotland Bluegrass Festival announces details of line up and expanded location – it’s got Biggar!
  • Ole Kirkeng “Cowboy Lie Detector Machine”
  • Rose Hotel “My Satellite” – gone up to the sky
  • Video: Hollie Rogers “Everything’s Fine” Feat. Elles Bailey & Beth Nielsen Chapman – life in all its messy, unpredictable moments
  • The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 3rd – Counting Crows “A Long December” (1996)
  • Great Lakes “Don’t Swim Too Close”
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  • Michael O'Driscoll: A nice enough song, butb the 3rd greatest Americana song of all time? Strewth.

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Interviews

Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
Interviews

Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

April 7, 2026 0
In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]
Interviews

Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

April 2, 2026 0
How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]

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Tracks

Lucy Dacus “Fools Gold” – Listen

November 21, 2019 0
Lucy Dacus has spent 2019 releasing holiday themed songs for all the biggies – Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Independence Day, Bruce Springsteen’s Birthday.  All the big holidays.  Have you recovered from Springsteen’s Birthday yet?  That’s always […]
Videos

Video: The Magic Numbers “Sweet Divide”

March 21, 2018 0
From their imminent new album Outsiders comes this single from the Magic Numbers, wherein they layer their sound and channel their inner Crazy Horse.  Very good it is too.  
News

The Avett Brothers cover Randy Travis – Watch

April 24, 2019 0
It’s fair to say we don’t often cover Randy Travis on AUK but we make an exception when it comes to fellow North Carolinians the Avett Brothers whose 2012 taping of CMT Crossroads is considered by […]

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