Features
The Americana Spirit of 24: Peter Thompson
AUK writers look back at the last 12 months in americana, starting with our staff writer Peter Thompson. Is it that time already? The year has simply flown by – I feel like I’m still waiting […]
Features
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Matraca Berg and the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band ‘Oh Cumberland’ – from “Will The Circle Be Unbroken – Farther Along”
The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band-curated “Will The Circle Be Unbroken” album released in 1972 is often cited as one of the foundation stones of americana. At the time, the record’s bringing together of the founders of […]
Essentials
Essentials: The Top Ten American Aquarium Songs
I am a huge fan of American Aquarium’s muscular alt-country with its great tunes and often anthemic choruses. They put the country into their alt-country with a liberal dose of wonderful pedal steel, which is never […]
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
Can’t Live With It – Can’t Live Without It: Freedy Johnston
If you grow up as a music fan and have aspirations to become a musician – life is treating you a little unfairly if the only place you can buy records back in the seventies was […]
Columns
AUK Back Pages No. 10
We’re at the back end of 2007 this time around. So, alongside the four monthly issued CDs there’s an end of year bonus, a best of 2007. Before delving into them we have our usual dive […]