Americana UK reviews the latest books broadly related to the americana genre, overseen by AUK Books Editor Tim Martin
When the Beach Boys’ “country” album ‘Stars and Stripes’ came out in 1995 Mike Love said, “Nothing’s much more Americana than the Beach Boys and country music combined”. In 2022, our Ljubinko Zivkovic made the case […]
Elijah Wald is a folk-blues musician, author and academic whose written works have focused mainly on folk and blues music. In addition to his own books, Wald co-authored Dave von Ronk’s memoir ‘The Mayor Of MacDougal […]
Subtitled “Black Music and the Free Jazz Revolution, 1957-1977” this book arrived a pivotal point for American culture and is so much more than a book about a small corner of the jazz world. Val Wilmer […]
When a tortured artist sat in a bedroom recording demos on a cassette tape… and came out with a lo-fi masterpiece. The epilogue to this book has Warren Zanes being contacted by Bruce Springsteen to ask […]
Mary Gauthier’s ‘Saved By A Song‘ is subtitled ‘The Art and Healing Power of Songwriting‘ and consists of, it should surprise no-one, powerful stories associated with particular songs of hers – stories about what the songs […]
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