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AUK’s Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Clint West

June 23, 2023 Clint West 8

AUK Features Editor Clint West writes: Welcome to a brand-new feature where each week an AUK writer will select their ‘Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists’. We will then aggregate their scores to bring you our […]

Classic Americana Albums: Dixie Chicks “Taking The Long Way”

June 22, 2023 Peter Churchill 2

Eight years separate the 1998 Dixie Chicks release ‘Wide Open Spaces’, the group’s first album to feature Natalie Maines on lead vocals, and ‘Taking The Long Way’, the first album to follow the infamous 2003 Shepherd’s […]

The First Time: Michael Macy – The Allman Brothers, Robards Sports Arena, Sarasota, 10th April 1971

June 20, 2023 Michael Macy 4

First, let me be straight – this isn’t about the first time I ever saw a live band. I think my first live gig was a graduation dance when I was 14. I don’t remember the […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Charlie Rich “Try A Little Tenderness”

June 20, 2023 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0

So last week Vera Lynn asked us to ‘Try A Little Kindness.’ This week good old Charlie Rich (in his not-so-old days) asks us to ‘Try A Little Tenderness.’ Now, this song, written back in 1932 […]

Classic Clips: Richard Thompson & Nanci Griffith “1952 Vincent Black Lightning” – Sessions at West 54th 1997

June 16, 2023 Tim Martin 0

Richard Thompson’s music has been high on my playlist recently, after re-reading Joe Boyd’s memoir of the 60s for our Paperback Riders strand. Originally recorded for his album ‘Rumor and Sigh’. In the early 90s, ‘1952 […]

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 […]