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Americana UK writers pick their top 10 essential albums or tracks by a favourite artist

Essentials

Essentials: Top 10 Gene Clark Songs

September 23, 2021 Ljubinko Zivkovic 4
Gene Clark’s story is one that legends in modern music, any genre or style are built upon. From humble background to fame and fortune, to substance abuse (quite a few of those), to recovery, back to […]
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Essentials: The top 10 Carl Perkins songs

September 16, 2021 Mark Nenadic 3
Carl Perkins didn’t have Elvis’s voice and looks. He didn’t have Johnny Cash’s dark pathos. He didn’t have Jerry Lee’s barely contained lunacy. As Sun Records legends go, he was plain-looking, balding and ordinary sounding. However, […]
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Essentials: The top 10 Jon Langford related albums

September 9, 2021 Peter Tomkins 4
Jon Langford has lived in Chicago for the last thirty or so years, but is originally from Newport in South Wales. When I interviewed Jon over the phone – that’s a bit like Zoom but without […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Laurel Canyon albums

September 2, 2021 Alan Fitter 5
If anyone ever invented a time machine (unlikely, if not impossible but I can dream can’t I?) there are a lot of times and places I’d go back to but Laurel Canyon any time between 1967 […]
Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Dave Alvin albums

August 26, 2021 Clint West 5
Dave Alvin is a multi-faceted, multi-talented cornerstone of americana. As a singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer he has consistently excelled to the point where anything bearing his name, in whatever role, is usually a cast-iron guarantee of […]

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Keyside “Keyside”

Album Reviews
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Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967

Classic Clips
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The Waterboys live at OVO Hydro, Glasgow - 29th August 2026

Live review: The Waterboys, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 29th August 2026

Live Reviews
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Brothers Osborne will release fifth album “Watertown” in October

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Our new supporters playlist is out tomorrow – win tickets to see Ranagri

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Album Reviews

Keyside “Keyside”

September 4, 2026 0
A catchy, guitar-led debut where jangly hooks and catchy choruses carry stories of lives lived close to the edge. There is something immediately familiar about Keyside, the debut album from Liverpool four-piece Keyside. Jangly guitars and […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967

September 4, 2026 0
Growing up, I loved to watch the television show The Monkees, though looking back, I figure I wasn’t watching the episodes as they first aired, but re-runs. There were only two series of the show, though […]
The Waterboys live at OVO Hydro, Glasgow - 29th August 2026
Live Reviews

Live review: The Waterboys, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 29th August 2026

September 4, 2026 0
Prior to this homecoming gig, much had been made about the release of Atlantic Rain: The Lost Fisherman’s Blues Recordings, the latest offering on Fantasy Records; a collection of lost material from the 86-88 sessions. Tonight, […]

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  • Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967
  • Live review: The Waterboys, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 29th August 2026
  • Brothers Osborne will release fifth album “Watertown” in October
  • Our new supporters playlist is out tomorrow – win tickets to see Ranagri
  • The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring My Girl The River and Hollow Hand
  • Starter Car “Afterlight”
  • Julian Taylor “Drive” – moving forward, of course
  • Video: Grace Elizabeth Harvey “The Dream of Common Language” – the search for deeper understanding
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Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
Interviews

Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 1
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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Phoebe Hunt & The Gatherers “Baba Vanga” – Listen

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Oh my goodness – what is Phoebe Hunt doing to country on her new album ‘Neither One of US is Wrong‘?  Or, put it another way, what is Phoebe Hunt not doing to country on her […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Monica Aben

July 2, 2025 0
This next AUK mini-gig is brought to you live from Monica Aben’s bedroom studio in California, which she shares with a Taylor 714 CE guitar that she got for a gift instead of a car for […]
Album Reviews

Trent Miller “Time Between Us” (Bucketful Of Brains, 2018)

March 6, 2018 0
‘Motel Rooms Of Ocean Blue’ floats in on a lovely acoustic guitar figure, the melancholic melody meanders and mesmerising strings take the tune on a detour. It’s beautiful, but it’s also the best thing on Trent […]

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