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Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 20-11
So we have reached the end of another year here at AUK and the bombardment of new music has once again been relentless – we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up […]
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Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s top 20 songs of 2024: Part Two, 10-1
Earlier in the week we counted down numbers 20-11 of my standout tracks from 2024 – a mixture of Westcoast powerpop, indie-folk and straight down the line Americana, which of course is the raison d’etre of […]
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Can’t Live With it, Can’t Live Without it: Drive-By Truckers
I first clapped eyes on Drive-By Truckers when they were on the Jools Holland Show in 2010 playing ‘Birthday Boy’ from “The Big to Do” album. I had always had a bit of a soft spot […]
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Americana UK’s albums of 2024 – the rest of the best
We will be publishing our albums of the year from tomorrow starting with numbers 20-11, as chosen by AUK’s writing team. But which albums almost made the list? Along with albums which featured on our longlist […]
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Anniversary Cheers: Iris DeMent’s “My Life” celebrates 30 years
Part of an occasional series that looks at significant anniversary re-releases of iconic albums as they are put out. Happy 30th anniversary to Iris DeMent, who has re-released her second album, “My Life,” on the Yep […]