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Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century

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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Number 8 – Ryan Adams “Heartbreaker” (2000)

October 12, 2022 Sean Hannam 0
When I chose my Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century, back in May of this year, I put Ryan Adams’ ‘Heartbreaker’ at number 1, so I’m delighted it’s made the AUK writers’ overall list […]
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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Number 9 – Gillian Welch “Time (The Revelator)” (2001)

October 11, 2022 Martin Johnson 0
‘Time (The Revelator)’ is a very good example of a 21st Century americana album. Gillian Welch looks and sounds like she has just walked out of the rural ‘20s, but she was born in New York and […]
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AUK’s Top 10 Albums of the 21st Century: Number 10 – Nick Lowe “The Convincer” (2001)

October 10, 2022 David Jarman 0
Features Editor Clint West writes: So the countdown begins as we reveal our ‘Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century’. Starting today with our Number 10. Over the next two weeks we will each day […]
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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: The Best of the Rest

October 6, 2022 Clint West 0
The votes have been cast and counted and next week we will begin the run-down of the Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century as chosen by our writers. Number 10 will be revealed on […]
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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: The Shortlist

September 29, 2022 Clint West 8
We began our quest to find the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century’ way back in January. Since then, thirty AUK writers have offered up their own personal selections for readers to peruse. We […]

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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A generous helping of new folk song recordings this month on the regular roundup from the Tracks we say “hmm…this is more folk than Americana, isn’t it?”  In the end you, dear reader, as ever are […]
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The Beatles “Love Me Do” – it was 60 years ago today…

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Although, strictly speaking (and we do like to speak strictly) this is the 2009 remaster.  No matter, Americana UK today gives the nod to the other great musical phenomenon to come out of Liverpool. October 5th […]
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