Features
Ten top Swamp Pop tracks
In the 1950s Cajun music and Rock and Roll got together and produced a daughter – they called her “Swamp Pop”! By now, regular readers will know I’m quite a fan of Cajun and Zydeco music […]
Features
Features
Forgotten Artists – The Black Sorrows
Another possible first for the FORGOTTEN ARTISTS series – I don’t think we’ve featured an Antipodean band before! The Black Sorrows hail from Melbourne, Australia, and started life as an R&B covers band. The founder and […]
Features
AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Mark Whitfield
Today sees us publish the last of our writers’ personal top tens. It’s been both entertaining and educative and has demonstrated the wide range of knowledge and tastes that AUK writers collectively possess. All the selections […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Justin Townes Earle “Harlem River Blues”
The painfully tragic passing of Justin Townes Earle in August last year due to an accidental drugs overdose brought the sad realisation that that was it for any new material from the mercurial JTE. We would […]
Features
The Unsung Heroes of Americana – Ovation Guitars
Guitars are obviously major contributors to the sound of Americana and we’ve already had articles about two iconic guitar models here on The Unsung Heroes of Americana series – the Gibson J45 and the Martin D28. […]