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More People Should Know About: Sam Baker

July 9, 2024 Jonathan Smith 3

Sam Baker is an American singer songwriter, artist and photographer. He has a feel for writing words and melodies which are sparse, full of space and humanity and quiet poetry. There is a kind of sage-like […]

For the Sake of the Song: Creedence Clearwater Revival “Lodi”

July 8, 2024 Chas Lacey 0

Getting a namecheck in a song is one way for a town to bring in tourists. Winslow, Arizona will forever be deemed a place to take it easy but for one town in northern California, a […]

Classic Clips: The Long Ryders – Looking for Lewis & Clark, Live 2023 – Bristol

July 5, 2024 Tim Martin 1

There are some bands who inexplicably pass you by. Despite being favourites of some of my AUK colleagues, The Long Ryders were one of those groups for me. Having started to correct that oversight by buying […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Elvis Costello Americana Songs

July 4, 2024 Andy Short 2

Many of you will be used to seeing Elvis Costello watching the detectives, refusing to go to Chelsea or joining Oliver’s Army but in 1981 Costello released the album ‘Almost Blue’, an album of country music, […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Al Carr

July 4, 2024 Dean Nardi 1

This latest entry for Americana UK’s exclusive series of mini-gig videos comes to our readers from Australia, recorded by Al Carr, who has been playing his brand of fine Antipodean Australicana music for 20 years. He […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Tracks by the least likely suspects

July 23, 2026 2

Before you shout at me remember this is supposed to be fun…. I have opened up and bared my soul on a couple of occasions about my past as a teenage rocker in the 1970s, with […]

Ed Askew “The Final Painting”

July 23, 2026 0

Profound, moving and beautiful reveries on posthumous release from ‘Outsider Folk’ poet. Ed Askew was a New York artist, poet, songwriter and genuine underground legend. Having first broken through with his self-titled album in 1968 (subsequently […]

artwork for Conway Savage album "Too Dark To See"

Conway Savage “Too Dark To See”