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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Sean Hannam

May 26, 2022 Sean Hannam 1

Choose my top 10 americana albums of the 21st century? Tough call. To make it easier on myself, I tried not to deliberate too long on what would make the cut – there was no whittling […]

Classic Americana Albums: The Hacienda Brothers “The Hacienda Brothers”

May 25, 2022 David Jarman 3

There are many reasons to suggest an album has classic status, sometimes it’s an album with iconic status, by an internationally acclaimed artist, sometimes it’s an album that seems to encapsulate much of what we love […]

The Other Side of Me: Jonathan Smith on how the Jesus and Mary Chain changed everything

May 24, 2022 Jonathan Smith 0

It was 1986, at a party at someone’s house, I don’t remember whose. I didn’t really want to be there, it was definitely a peer pressure thing. I’d probably ridden my tiny moped there, cloaked in […]

But is it Americana? – Traffic

May 23, 2022 Graeme Tait 0

Continuing our new, short series, in which some of our writers try to convince you that a band or an album, not usually associated with the genre, is worthy of inclusion in the world of Americana, […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Maria Shiel “FiRE iN the SEA”

May 23, 2022 Viv Fish 0

Following last week’s Chain Gang piece by fellow writer Clint West, I am delighted to be handed the opportunity to create a link to the 2020 Maria Shiel album, ‘FiRE iN the SEA’. Clint wrote about […]