Features
AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Helen Jones
At AUK we are on a quest to find the ‘top 10 americana albums ever’. Over the last few weeks our writers have been going through the mental anguish of trying to narrow the whole history […]
Features
Obituaries
The Song Remains: Ennio Morricone 1928-2020
Ennio Morricone, who died on 6th July at the age of 91, was a prolific composer for film – and there were few genres that he didn’t touch in his long career, from historical dramas such […]
Features
“Country music can no longer hide its problems”
The latest issue of The Atlantic has a very interesting piece on how country as a genre has been famously resistant to change but this has been upended by the pandemic and protests around Black Lives […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Emmylou Harris “Pieces of the Sky” (Reprise, 1975)
‘Pieces of the Sky’ was an album eagerly anticipated by those of us who followed the road of Country Rock in the 70s. Still reeling from the loss of Gram Parsons, this was expected to be […]
AmericanA to Z
AmericanA to Z: Karen Dalton
Many artists go unrecognised in their lifetimes. Some of them end up with a “cult” following, and some end up with such a huge weight of myth surrounding them that their music often fails to live […]