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But is it Americana? – Stereophonics

September 5, 2022 Helen Jones 1
Helen Jones is the writer in the frame this time round, as she makes an impassioned plea for Stereophonics’ debut album to earn the coveted Americana tag. Can the band from the Welsh valleys convince you […]
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Classic Clips: The Rolling Stones, “Dead Flowers” – Texas, 1972

September 2, 2022 Sean Hannam 0
Every so often, a pub conversation with like-minded music obsessives inevitably turns to: ‘If you could go back in time and see any band or artist in concert, who would it be?’ For me, aged 48, […]
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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Graham Bollands

September 1, 2022 GrahamBollands 2
Let’s start this in a familiar way! Yes, what an incredibly difficult task it is to make this list. Not just because putting together any countdown of ‘best albums’ is a huge challenge and so dependent […]
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The Song Remains: Luke Bell 1990-2022

September 1, 2022 Clint West 0
A keeper of the honky tonk flame playing modern country music with traditional sensibilities. Luke Bell, the neo-traditionalist honky-tonk and country music performer was found dead in Tucson, Arizona, some nine days after going missing whilst […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Neil Young “Comes a Time”

August 31, 2022 Emily Dongray 0
There are twenty-six pages of ‘Classic Americana Albums’ you can view on the AUK website, and the section has been running for many years, and yet somehow, this is the first mention of Neil Young. His […]

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AUK celebrates with an event in Liverpool city centre on Saturday November 28th. Well, unbelievably, it was a quarter of a century ago that Americana UK first came into existence as a one-man operation run from a […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It : Lyle Lovett

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There are very few artists who are as consistently excellent across a whole career as Lyle Lovett. He marries sharp, witty observations with immaculate musicianship, starting with his eponymous debut record and going right up to […]
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AUK’s EP Round-Up – March 2026

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Here we are in March, and spring has well and truly sprung in this part of the northern hemisphere, after what had felt like endless weeks of grey days and continuous precipitation. So, what better way […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Wizz Jones & Ralph McTell, Junction 2, Cambridge, 21st June 2018

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In the wake of the passing of John Renbourn in 2015, old friends Ralph McTell and Wizz Jones were prompted to finally get around to recording an album together the title of which – ‘About Time‘ […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Joe Henry “Trampoline”

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If it wasn’t for this album, Joe Henry would be a minor footnote in any history of Americana that I might write, perhaps more memorable for being Madonna’s brother-in-law. His early records were serviceable and he […]
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The Menzingers “Some Of It Was True”

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A live album with studio sound. Eighteen years on from when Scranton, PA punk rockers The Menzingers started out guitarist Greg Barnett clearly does not undersell this, their seventh studio album, describing it as, “a pivotal […]

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