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Americana UK reviews the latest books broadly related to the americana genre, overseen by AUK Books Editor Tim Martin

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Book Review: Andrew Lauder, Mick Houghton “Happy Trails – Andrew Lauder’s Charmed Life And High Times In The Record Business”

April 23, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Andrew Lauder will be a name well known to readers of several different vintages but especially from those clued in to the output from United Artists in the early 1970s and pages of Zigzag magazine from […]
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Book/Album Review: Josh Rosenthal (editor) “Treasures Untold: A Modern 78 RPM Reader”

April 17, 2025 Tim Martin 4
We’ve had vinyl, CD, and cassettes all making a “comeback.” So are 78s the next format we’ll all be hankering after. It feels unlikely simply on the grounds of breakability alone. But 78s refuse to go […]
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Paperback Riders: 95 Years of Analog Science Fiction and Fact

April 11, 2025 Tim Martin 1
For nearly a century, ‘Analog Science Fiction and Fact Magazine’ has sat at the frontier of science fiction. While it’s fashionable to lump SF, fantasy and horror into one box called “Speculative fiction” these days, ‘Analog’ […]
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Book/EP Review: dASHDOWN “Lyrics From the Heartland” and “jAGUAR”

April 2, 2025 Tim Martin 0
A book of introspective lyrics which stand alone but take on new life when matched with his incendiary music. Chicago, by way of Cirencester and Surrey, musician Dave Ashdown started thinking about a book of his […]
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Book Review: Pete Kennedy “Tone, Twang and Taste: A Guitar Memoir”

March 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
The whole things started with me saying “yes.” Pete Kennedy has written his memoir with the same plainspoken elegance as the records he has made with his musical partner and wife, Maura Kennedy. He spins some […]

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After a four-year break, Rayland Baxter will release latest album in October

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Nick Mitchell Maiato “Naquera”

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Video Premiere: Scott Cook “Steady For You”

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Rayland Baxter
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After a four-year break, Rayland Baxter will release latest album in October

September 2, 2026 0
Rayland Baxter’s new album, True Violet, will be released on 23rd October 2026 via ATO Records. he feels like the first time he’s truly found it. It is his first album in more than four years. […]
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Dom Glynn and His Sunday Best “This Fast Life Is Killing Me”

September 2, 2026 0
Vintage country music at its very best. One of the joys of good music of any genre is its ability to transport you to another time and another place. The new album by Dom Glynn and […]
Cover art for Nick Mitchell Maiato album "Naquera"
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Nick Mitchell Maiato “Naquera”

September 2, 2026 0
One Eleven Heavy’s Mitchell Maiato delivers a healthy dose of cosmic psychedelia for the 21st century. Four years have passed since we last heard from Nick Mitchell Maiato, at which time One Eleven Heavy, his sometime […]

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  • Video Premiere: Scott Cook “Steady For You”
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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 1
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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An uncompromisingly bleak take on today’s world but not without hope. In an interview with AUK last November, the ‘Scouse Springsteen/Strummer’ Ian Prowse revealed how lockdown had re-energised his musical career. The evidence is there for […]
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There’s no disputing the talent, energy and togetherness that this unique band bring to the table. You can argue over the genre – they call it ‘Acid Celtgrass’. What that means is open to interpretation, pigeonholing […]

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