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Icarus Phoenix “I Should Have Known The Things You Never Said” (Deluxe Edition)

August 7, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
Danburry and team expand on the compelling uneasiness of last year’s album with an additional twenty-nine songs from the same recording session. In his review last September of Icarus Phoenix’s latest release, “I Should Have Known […]
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Eli West “The Shape of a Sway”

August 6, 2025 Alasdair Fotheringham 0
A quietly fiery masterpiece of liberated and liberating bluegrass. Of all the different types of americana, bluegrass can be one of the most challenging to review – but some might say that’s an unintended consequence of […]
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Later Youth “Living History”

August 6, 2025 John Lee 0
An ambitious and affecting debut that fuses indie, americana, and nostalgia-fuelled introspection. The debut album from Later Youth – the new solo project of The Travelling Band’s Jo Dudderidge – feels like paging through a diary […]
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Tyler Childers “Snipe Hunter”

August 5, 2025 Peter Churchill 0
Memorable opener paves the way for another high-class album from the formidable Mr Childers. There are some albums that start in a rather low-key manner. Albums that worm their way surreptitiously into the subconscious after a […]
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AUK Shortcuts: Hadnot Creek, Rah Rah Rabbit, Gary Owens JR., Patton Magee, Odd Marshall, Lee Hunter & The Gatherers, KP Hawthorn, Florence Sommerville and Haystack Slim & The Broken Arrow

August 5, 2025 Paul Kerr 1
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently, which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites, […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Bobbie Gentry “The Delta Sweete”

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Jim Lauderdale putting out album 38: “Country Super Hits Volume 2”, touring with Emmylou Harris

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  • Classic Americana Albums: Bobbie Gentry “The Delta Sweete”
  • Eric Bibb “One Mississippi”
  • Jim Lauderdale putting out album 38: “Country Super Hits Volume 2”, touring with Emmylou Harris
  • Keegan McInroe “Neon John”
  • Interview: Hal Cannon on cowboy poetry, songs and folklore
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Interview: Hal Cannon on cowboy poetry, songs and folklore

February 25, 2026 0
For Hal Cannon, life should be very simple – love the place you live, love the ones you know, if you’re needy, why not give, then see if you’re still low. Words to live by, extracted […]
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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

February 23, 2026 0
Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]
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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

February 18, 2026 0
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Live Review: The War and Treaty + Foreign Affairs, Omeara, London – 1st September 2023

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 The headliners exploded onto the stage with a barrage of songs including ‘Lover’s Game’ from their latest album and culminating in a cover of ‘Proud Mary’ with a performance that left the audience gasping. More songs […]
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The Guardian talks to Emmylou Harris

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Well when we say “talk” we mean fire the usual round of q & as they have on a Saturday with random celebrities, but nonetheless it’s better than hearing Jeremy Clarkson list his ideal dinner party […]
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Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win tickets to see Tommy Emmanuel live

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We’re also giving away a copy of the new Paul Kelly album “Seventy” out today! Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK […]

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