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Book Review: Chris Molanphy “Old Town Road”

February 15, 2024 Andy Davidson 0

It takes Chris Molanphy just 125 pages to brilliantly chronicle the twists and turns that made Lil Nas X single ‘Old Town Road’ such a phenomenon. This book was published last November, a new addition to […]

Paperback Riders – Will Birch “No Sleep Till Canvey Island: The Great Pub Rock Revolution”

January 29, 2024 Tim Martin 3

Pub Rock sat in that middle ground between the more excessive bits of 70s rock, and the nuclear year zero of Punk. What it also did was open the door to music based on early R&B […]

Book Review: Scott Eyman “Charlie Chaplin versus America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided”

January 17, 2024 Rick Bayles 0

This is the last book I received for review before I stepped down as Books Editor for Americana UK, so you’ll be reading this review after I leave. My first reaction, when I received this book, […]

Paperback Riders: And the top Christmas book in the USA is…

December 21, 2023 Tim Martin 2

Good Reads is a great place to talk about books. And as everyone loves a list, they have one for Christmas books. When we talked about the great American novel a few months back, we found […]

Book Review: Amy Yates Wuelfing, with Joan Arkuszewski and Loren Hunt “Still Drinkin’ & Smokin’, Rockin’ & Rollin’: An Oral History of New Hope’s John & Peter’s”.

December 6, 2023 Rick Bayles 0

The majority of books that we get for review here at AUK take the form of biographies or personal memoirs. This is a book that really falls a bit into both categories, yet it has little […]