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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Forbert songs

May 6, 2021 Jim Finnie 10

Despite intense pressure from my Americana UK writing colleagues (which I have to say at times bordered on psychological torture and which has caused me to consider legal remedies), I am not going to cover the […]

Essentials: The top 10 Will Hoge songs

April 29, 2021 Helen Jones 3

Do you ever listen to something and just feel baffled that everyone isn’t as in love with the music as you are? That’s how it was for me when I came, regrettably late, to Will Hoge. […]

Essentials: The top 10 Cowboy Junkies albums

April 22, 2021 Tim Martin 4

In both of AUK’s best albums ever polls The Cowboy Junkies ‘The Trinity Session’ scored highly, finishing at number 12 for the writers, and number 18 for our readers. For a group whose style is often […]

Essentials: The top ten Drive-By Truckers tracks

April 8, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 9

A near impossible task made harder by the realisation that they are getting better! These exercises at distilling artists into print-friendly articles highlighting key tracks or moments in a recording career are often divisive and always […]

Essentials: The top 10 Guy Clark songs

April 1, 2021 David Jarman 4

With such an extensive catalogue, and songs written over four decades, it has been no easy task picking out my top 10 Guy Clark tracks. While the top six picked themselves quickly, beyond that there is […]