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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 6 – John Prine

February 9, 2024 Clint West 0

It’s Friday and we’ve reached the halfway stage in our rundown of ‘The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists’. With the rundown not resuming until Monday we know that the AUK readership will be wishing away […]

Classic Clips: Sturgill Simpson “Keep it Between the Lines” Saturday Night Live – 14th January 2017

February 9, 2024 Andy Davidson 1

Many still think Sturgill Simpson’s performance of ‘Call to Arms’ on Saturday Night Live the most badass ever. Simpson performed harder than his Telecaster. The guitar, complete with rebel insignia was disrespectfully thrown to the ground […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 7 – Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead

February 8, 2024 Clint West 1

As our countdown of the Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists gathers pace we reach Number 7. Whilst some of our writers celebrated the Grateful Dead, a couple also honed in on the individual talent and […]

For The Sake Of The Song: Gretchen Peters “Five Minutes”

February 8, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2

It’s not often you remember where you were when you heard a song for the first time. In June 2011, I was at the Stables in Wavendon, Milton Keynes, seeing Wine, Women & Song (Gretchen Peters, […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 8 – Townes Van Zandt

February 7, 2024 Clint West 1

Arriving at Number 8 today, the keenly observant amongst the AUK readership will notice that the great Townes Van Zandt sits on 30 points – the same tally as Jason Isbell yesterday. So how have we […]

RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
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@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
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Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
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The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Little Feat after Lowell George

May 20, 2026 0

I’ve gone on record as proclaiming Waiting For Columbus one of the best live albums in the universe, so I took a long time to reconcile myself to the fact that the band had a life […]

Steep Canyon Rangers “Next Act”

May 20, 2026 0

Time to secure your first-class ticket to a bluegrass celebration. Steep Canyon Rangers have been around a long time and continue to produce fine music, and their live performances are legendary. Next Act is their fifteenth […]

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

Interviews

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 0

Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

Interviews

Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1

At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

News

The twelve days of the SXSW lineup: eight whiskeys a-slammin’

December 22, 2022 0

The first and second waves of the 37th annual Texan showcase of new music SXSW lineup have been released, and once again, it looks to be the sound of tomorrow. The festival runs a full six […]

Previews

Kashena Sampson – UK dates in support of debut album ‘Wild Heart’

May 29, 2018 0

Following her successful performance at the UK Americana Awards showcase back in January, new Nashville singer-songwriter Kashena Sampson hits these shores at the end of the month to help promote her debut album ‘Wild Heart’ which came […]

Album Reviews

Paul Kelly “Songs From The South 1985 – 2019” (Cooking Vinyl, 2019)

January 2, 2020 1

It’s a point of pride for Australians that they don’t beat around the bush. So when it comes to reviewing ‘Songs From the South 1985-2019’, by one of that country’s greatest modern-day singer-songwriters, you could maybe […]