The Oppenheimer of bluegrass mandolin. On the 26th of April, 2024, the bluegrass world lost one of its true innovators when Frank Wakefield died at his home in Sarasota Springs, NY. Bill Monroe may be the […]
Newcastle-upon-Tyne has many claims to fame, not least of all its contribution to the world of music which includes the UK’s first guitar hero Hank Marvin and his fellow Shadow Bruce Welch, the Animals, Lindisfarne, Sting, […]
When I started to think about writing something for this section of AUK, I was overwhelmed. So many songs are important to me. There are those that are talismans, almost magic incantations that I rely on […]
Summer time’s here, kiddies and it’s time to take a trip. So let’s trip into the summer of 2005 with a look at the May – August discs (Vol. 2, numbers 5 to 8) delivered to […]
The mystery of Michael Hurley. A survivor of the Greenwich Village folk scene who’s ploughed his own unique furrow of pastoral, homespun folk-country blues, long before he was heralded by the freak-folk scene who made an […]
© Americana UK 2025, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool