Our week by week chain of americana chosen by AUK writers
Following on from the Drive-By Truckers, here’s a song featuring a whole load of real-life truckers. Erika Jonsson is a full-fledged americana star in her native Sweden, and is currently augmenting her living in the tricky […]
Following ‘I Can’t Make You Love Me’ by Bonnie Raitt, we are exploring the polar opposite of love with this wonderful Drive-By Truckers song from the ‘Decoration Day‘ album. This is Patterson Hood’s lament for an […]
So we finished a fascinating chain in the last piece with Shirley Collins and ‘Adieu To All Judges and Juries’. So, there were two routes to potentially go to follow that track – ‘legal’ or ‘au […]
The last link in the chain celebrated the power of the concertina and other associated squeezebox instruments, and noted that “Jimmy Shand memories had similarly been set aside since Richard Thompson added the instrument to his […]
Aside from last week’s clip proving that Nils Lofgren is a consummately cool dude, it was fascinating to hear him talk of his accordion playing days and the oompah oompah polka influence he brought to bear […]
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