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Our top ten americana albums of 2021 – Part Two

December 21, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Americana UK reveals its album of the year for 2021. Following a few dormant years when trying to decide on an albums of the year list we ended up scratching (and sometimes gouging) each other’s eyes […]

Our top ten americana albums of 2021 – Part One

December 20, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Well it’s been a long year by anyone’s standards but as a form of group therapy, we decided for the first time in years to try and come up with a list of our favourite albums […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Rodney Crowell “Something Has To Change”

December 20, 2021 Tim Martin 0

Last week on the Chain Gang I was introduced by Sean Hannam to Matt Hill, and his album ‘Return of the Idle Drones’. This is available exclusively via Hill’s Bandcamp page. Like many of the artists […]

Classic Clips – Gregory Alan Isakov & Passenger “Sweet Baby James”

December 17, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Two of the finest vocalists and songwriters around today are Colorado-based Gregory Alan Isakov and the UK’s Michael Rosenberg, better known by his stage-name Passenger. Both possess gently intimate voices that draw us into their stories. […]

Killers and crowd-pleasing epics: Helen Jones’s Review of 2021

December 16, 2021 Helen Jones 2

Sadly, still no shows for me in 2021 (an autoimmune disorder means I’m operating with an abundance of caution), but hey, at least there has been a great raft of studio albums to keep me entertained. […]

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