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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 5 – Gram Parsons

February 12, 2024 Clint West 1
It’s Week 2 and we reach the Top 5 of ‘The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists’. The tension is mounting as we count down to the Number 1 which we will reveal on Friday. Before […]
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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 6 – John Prine

February 9, 2024 Clint West 0
It’s Friday and we’ve reached the halfway stage in our rundown of ‘The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists’. With the rundown not resuming until Monday we know that the AUK readership will be wishing away […]
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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 7 – Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead

February 8, 2024 Clint West 1
As our countdown of the Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists gathers pace we reach Number 7. Whilst some of our writers celebrated the Grateful Dead, a couple also honed in on the individual talent and […]
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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 8 – Townes Van Zandt

February 7, 2024 Clint West 1
Arriving at Number 8 today, the keenly observant amongst the AUK readership will notice that the great Townes Van Zandt sits on 30 points – the same tally as Jason Isbell yesterday. So how have we […]
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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 9 – Jason Isbell

February 6, 2024 Clint West 1
At Number 9 in our Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists is Jason Isbell on 30 points. Whilst none of our writers selected Isbell as their Number 1 choice, he did gain two second spots Here’s […]

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From the fan favourite album Recovering the Satellites, this song was highly rated across the board, clearly striking a chord with writers (5 of whom voted for it), as its themes of regret and heartbreak melded […]
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Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan are to be celebrated by artists such as Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Randy Newman, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Brian Wilson and Laura Nyro as part of […]

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Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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