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I am Night Witch: Swooping over the devastation just one more time – Jon Aird’s Review of 2023

December 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Surely this is it, no? After 13…soon to be 14…years of doing nothing this must be the last Christmas for a decade at least in which we’ll have to suffer the ineptitude of a government that […]
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Solstice Songs Thursday – Let us to the darkened woods

December 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, this really is it – the final batch of seasonal songs for the year.  Apologies to all those we couldn’t fit in, we’ve really done out best.  And what have we today?  Darkened woods, the […]
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Americana UK’s Top 20 Albums of 2023: Part One, 20-11

December 20, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1
Here at AUK Towers, like all loving families, we fight – a lot – over who has used the last of the milk, left the washing up in the sink, accidentally locked the cat in the […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Richard Shindell

December 20, 2023 Rick Thorn 2
‘13 Songs You May or May Not Have Heard Before’ is the wonderfully modest name of Richard Shindell’s best of album released in 2011. It beautifully demonstrates his attitude towards fame or the trappings of success. […]
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Pump Up The Volume – A Year of Tracks

December 20, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Well, another year steams away down the Americana UK Tracks, and it’s therefore time to do the annual compare and contrast in which we find just which songs you enjoyed each month dear readers, and compare […]

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Kim Richey is one of those unsung heroes of americana who have been around for ages, releasing an album every few years without huge fanfare, but whose work within the industry, working with higher-profile musicians, has […]
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40 years on and we have the debut solo album by musical legend Mike Richmond, co-founder of the lamented Love Tractor, leading lights of the Athens, GA music scene. This is a great month for fans […]
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Rodney Crowell to release ‘lost album’ “Then Again” next month

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Rodney Crowell has announced the release of an album which many fans thought would never see the light of day, Then Again which arrives on 26th June 2026 via New West Records. The 10-track set was […]

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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

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If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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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 […]

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The Whitmore Sisters “Learn To Fly” – not all metaphor

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You’ll recognise half of The Whitmore Sisters from The Mastersons and also Steve Earle and the Dukes (and Duchesses) – that’s Eleanor, but her sister Bonnie also has a number (and that number is four) albums […]
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Video: Treetop Flyers “The Sounds Of Our Time”

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Bit of a cheat in the retro slot week as Treetop Flyers are very much now.  But this is their wonderful cover of “The Sounds Of Our Time”, originally by the late and very very great […]

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