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AUK’s Chain Gang: Waxahatchee “Can’t Do Much”

September 7, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
Last week in our ongoing chain of americana, Mark Underwood chose a song by Florida born Joshua Hedley whose most recent album ‘Mr. Jukebox’ was released on Jack White’s Third Man Records label earlier this year. […]
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Americana Roots: Nathan Moore

September 4, 2020 Tim Newby 1
  Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US. It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts […]
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Pick of the Political Pops: Robyn Hitchcock “Television”

September 4, 2020 Paul Villers 0
Here in Americana-UK Towers we have recently renewed our television licence. It cost us a grand sum of fifty-three quid since The Editor is too tight to let us have a colour TV and we make […]
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AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Guy Lincoln

September 3, 2020 Clint West 1
At AUK we are on a quest to find the ‘top 10 americana albums ever’. Over the last few months our writers have been going through an internal monologue of constant torment in trying to narrow […]
AmericanA to Z

Americana A to Z: Sand Rubies (Sidewinders)

September 3, 2020 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0
Jimi Hendrix doesn’t really qualify as Americana but a quote from his lyrics can come in handy here – “Is it love, or is it confusion?” Both things can really apply to this Arizona band that […]

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Hadnot Creek “The End of the Road”

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The Truffle Boys live at the Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham - 21st July 2026

Live Review: The Truffle Valley Boys, The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 21st July 2026

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Buffalo Traffic Jam “Pictures of You”

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The indefatigable Richard Thompson introduces his Hippies, Thugs and Heroes in October

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Album Reviews

Hadnot Creek “The End of the Road”

July 30, 2026 0
Late beginnings, hard-earned wisdom and songs that find grace amid life’s darker corners. Robert Sawrey’s story inevitably shapes the way The End of the Road is heard. Recording under the name Hadnot Creek, he only began […]
The Truffle Boys live at the Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham - 21st July 2026
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Live Review: The Truffle Valley Boys, The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 21st July 2026

July 30, 2026 0
There is a particular kind of pleasure in listening to crackly vinyl, hearing the ghosts of bluegrass and honky-tonk pioneers through layers of hiss and surface noise. But those records can sometimes leave you wondering what […]
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Buffalo Traffic Jam “Pictures of You”

July 30, 2026 0
If Kings of Leon did americana. Buffalo Traffic Jam is an act that is generating an awful lot of noise at the moment, as well as being one of the hottest concert tickets in town, based […]

  • Hadnot Creek “The End of the Road”
  • Live Review: The Truffle Valley Boys, The Kitchen Garden Café, Birmingham – 21st July 2026
  • Buffalo Traffic Jam “Pictures of You”
  • Hardly Strictly Bluegrass unveils initial line up plus associated shows
  • The indefatigable Richard Thompson introduces his Hippies, Thugs and Heroes in October
  • Kate Prascher “Thousand A Million” – a lot, anyway
  • Video: Elanor Moss “The Way That It Feels” – A song about not turning away, but turning towards
  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Matraca Berg
  • Gary Marks “Sky High” – How could water catch fire?
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Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
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Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 20

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Never have so many students been assessed and teachers marked so much – roll on the weekend! The horrors of the pandemic notwithstanding, our Yr 11s and Yr 13s have really had a grim time of […]
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Probably the first and last time you’ll read the name “Barbara Dickson” on AUK. In November 2018, a collective of folk musicians and singers including John McCusker, Michael McGoldrick, Boo Hewerdine, O’Hooley & Tidow,  Chris While, […]
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Live Review: Sorrel Nation, Newbald Village Hall, North Newbald, Yorkshire – 23rd February 2025

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The first show of the new year at the Newbald Village Hall, and the first of a new venture for early evening Sunday concerts, with the doors opening at 4.30 pm and the gig commencing half […]

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