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Chuck Prophet plays live on Andrew Marr

February 20, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Chuck Prophet, whose new album “Bobby Fuller Died for Your Sins” came out a few days ago (and which we reviewed rather glowingly) popped into the Andrew Marr Show yesterday morning to play the song Bad […]

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Martha Tilston releases double A-side to preview new album: Listen

February 20, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Martha Tilston has announced details of her new album “Nomad” which will be released via Squiggly Records on May 12th. Her seventh album to date, it will be preceded by the double A-side single Nomad Blood/Little […]

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Passenger releases anti-Trump song for refugees – Watch

February 20, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

We can’t tell you how heart-warming this little number is – the sentiments might be laid on thick but there’s more than a hint of humour in it, it’s not your traditional angsty protest song. As […]

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Ryan Adams performs songs from “Prisoner” on Jimmy Fallon show

February 20, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

And the stream isn’t blocked in the UK for once. Morning! Rolling Stone reports: “Ryan Adams stopped by The Tonight Show Friday to perform a pair of tracks off his just-released LP Prisoner. “[Prisoner] got crazy […]

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Ryan Adams announces UK and Ireland Dates

February 17, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

We’d quibble maybe with NME’s use of the word “huge” here (although if Donald Trump was his tour manager he’d probably use the words “biggest ever!”) but they report:”Ryan Adams has announced details of a huge […]

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Classic Clip: Mary Gauthier and Jaimee Harris “How Could You be Gone” -Take Root Festival, Groningen, Netherlands. November 2024

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Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review

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Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

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  • Classic Clip: Mary Gauthier and Jaimee Harris “How Could You be Gone” -Take Root Festival, Groningen, Netherlands. November 2024
  • Oh no, I don’t recall, I can’t remember anything at all – Jon Aird’s 2025 year in review
  • Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey
  • Americana UK Podcast 11 now live with The Autumn Defense
  • Anna Tivel “Swan Song” – a rumination on ephemerality
  • Video: Amy Speace “Weight of the World”
  • The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Peter Churchill
  • Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records
  • It’s the 2025 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year
  • Jesse Sykes And The Sweet Hereafter “Forever, I’ve Been Being Born”
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Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 0

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

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Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

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Interview: Brian Dunne asks is it so bad to want a good life?

December 9, 2025 0

While patiently waiting for Brian Dunne to get his due from those who listen to and hopefully buy physical media, it is worthwhile to linger in the brilliance of his fourth album, “Clams Casino” (Missing Piece, […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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