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Our new supporters playlist comes out today – Win a pair of weekend tickets for the 2024 Cambridge Folk Festival!

June 7, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

As those of you who have been around these parts for a while will know, AUK supporters get entered into a draw each month where they can win vinyl, books or tickets to gigs, but we’re […]

Sturgill Simpson announces new album under new name

June 6, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Sturgill Simpson is releasing a new album under a new name, Johnny Blue Skies, and an extensive US tour, his first for four years. The album, ‘Passage du Desir’, is out on 12th July 2024 on […]

11th Maui Music Festival (in Norfolk) features a day of Americana music – Maui Woweee!

June 6, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

A celebration of Americana Music and all its subgenres will take place on Sunday 25th August 2024 at the 3 day Maui Music and Performing Arts Festival, held at the meadowland site at Gressenhall, near Dereham […]

The Deserters have returned! Mercury Rev announce first album in nine years, UK tour dates

June 5, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Looks like autumn is going to be golden this year as the legends that are Mercury Rev have announced a new album “Born Horses” which is due for release 6th September via Bella Union as well […]

Austin’s Amy Annelle announces new album

June 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2

Austin-based singer-songwriter Amy Annelle has announced her forthcoming LP, ‘The Toll,’ due out on 2nd August 2024, on the High Plains High label. Annelle, who is emerging from a long battle with chronic illness, last released […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Tracks by the least likely suspects

July 23, 2026 2

Before you shout at me remember this is supposed to be fun…. I have opened up and bared my soul on a couple of occasions about my past as a teenage rocker in the 1970s, with […]

Ed Askew “The Final Painting”

July 23, 2026 0

Profound, moving and beautiful reveries on posthumous release from ‘Outsider Folk’ poet. Ed Askew was a New York artist, poet, songwriter and genuine underground legend. Having first broken through with his self-titled album in 1968 (subsequently […]

artwork for Conway Savage album "Too Dark To See"

Conway Savage “Too Dark To See”