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[ August 5, 2026 ] Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
[ August 5, 2026 ] Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It” Album Reviews
[ August 5, 2026 ] Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers News
[ August 5, 2026 ] Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates News
[ August 5, 2026 ] All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December News

Earth Opera cover of The Great American Eagle Tragedy

Americana Vinyl Treasures: Earth Opera “Great American Eagle Tragedy” – Elektra, 1969

September 4, 2023 Richard Parkinson 1

As a teenager hungry for new music, I would scour the cut-out bins and second-hand shops of my home town. A psychedelic cover or interesting personnel would be enough to prise the 20p-50p from my pocket […]

The Song Remains: Jimmy Buffett (1946 – 2023)

September 4, 2023 Rick Bayles 0

An end to ‘Island Escapism’. It was a sad weekend for Parrotheads everywhere, with the news that James William Buffett had departed this life at the age of just 76, a victim of skin cancer and […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Martin Johnson

August 31, 2023 Martin Johnson 27

How does anyone go about determining the top ten americana artists ever, and once you’ve worked that one out, how do you rank them in a meaningful way? These are the legitimate questions facing Americana UK […]

AUK shortcuts August 2023: Christian Parker, Davie Knowles, Dan Blakeslee, Shannon Clark and the Sugar, Crowes Pasture, Eric Long, William John Titus Bishop, Chris Murphy, The Family Wash, Paul J. Bolger and Richard Townend And The Mighty Bosscats

August 31, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]

Rising Appalachia at FloydeFesr, Floyd, Virginia 22 nd July 2010

More People Really Should Know About: Rising Appalachia

August 31, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0

One of the challenges about this feature is figuring out whether an artist is both sufficiently known and unknown to pass the test for inclusion. Rising Appalachia is an act I like enough to have seen […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

August 5, 2026 0

Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]