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[ May 26, 2026 ] Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much” Interviews
[ May 26, 2026 ] Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage” Album Reviews
[ May 26, 2026 ] For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are” Features
[ May 26, 2026 ] Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones” Anniversary Cheers
[ May 26, 2026 ] Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson News

Anniversary Cheers: Hem’s debut album “Rabbit Songs” celebrates its 25th birthday

November 26, 2025 FredArnold 1

Folk roots band’s highly praised debut album is re-released as a remastered digital offering, an added track and a first time ever vinyl edition. Hem was a band that came, stayed a while, then went, and […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Pat Carter

November 25, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Pat Carter is the singer and principal songwriter for the Berlin-based americana band Rodeo-FM. Their albums are highly recommended as both musically and lyrically outstanding. As Carter has mused, “I guess every songwriter wants to write […]

More People Should Know About: Five Islands

November 25, 2025 Jonathan Smith 0

There are plenty of artists out there who quietly and diligently amass a body of work, building a following by constant touring or releasing new music, and working hard on the socials to keep their name […]

Gillain Wwelch @ Jazz Fest, New Orleans, 29 April 2007

For the Sake of the Song: Gillian Welch “Everything Is Free”

November 24, 2025 Helen Jones 2

It’s hard to remember now, but there was a time in the early-00s when music piracy was the hot topic. At the turn of the millennium, Metallica member Lars Ulrich famously took the free file-sharing service […]

The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Alice Wallace

November 24, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Welcome to the fourth year of Twang Factor, where Americana UK sets out to find the best new and emerging americana acts. Got talent? This is the place to show us what you’ve got. Nashville-based singer-songwriter Alice […]

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Jazz titan Sonny Rollins has gone at the age of 95. Cle...
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
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RE: Versions!
@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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RE: What are you watching at the moment?
Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
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The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3

Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

May 26, 2026 0

A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities. Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, […]

For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

May 26, 2026 0

This song is on Sheryl Crow’s Wildflower album, released in 2005 to lukewarm critical response. It was a low-key collection of songs – no All I Wanna Do or Soak Up the Sun among them – […]

Interviews

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3

Interviews

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2

Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

Previews

Get ready for Molly Tuttle – but be quick about it

April 2, 2019 0

Americana Music Association’s instrumentalist of 2018, Molly Tuttle, is about to embark on a UK tour later this month, but you’ll need to act fast seeing as 6 of the dates are already sold out. The […]

Album Reviews

Joana Serrat “Hardcore from the Heart”

June 7, 2021 0

Dense, personal and strangely anthemic fifth album from Catalonian singer. ‘Hardcore From The Heart‘ is an album steeped in contradictions. Joana Serrat writes beautifully fragile and diaphanous songs then surrounds them in arrangements of muscular force […]

Album Reviews

Ava McCoy “Dragonfly”

June 26, 2025 0

A moving set of well-performed songs laced with resilience. Ava McCoy is still in her twenties and “Dragonfly” is her second full-length album after “Moss On The Celling” (2022) and an EP, “Closer To The Bugs”. […]