Americana UK reviews the latest books broadly related to the americana genre, overseen by AUK Books Editor Tim Martin
‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin: or, Life Among the Lowly’ was published in 2 parts in 1852. The abolitionist movement was gaining ground and Stowe wrote the novel in the wake of the 1850 Fugitive Slave Law, which […]
Back in 2018, I reviewed Iain Matthews’ excellent autobiography, “Thro’ My Eyes” and, in many ways, “In Search of Plainsong” can be seen as a companion to that book. When Iain Matthews wrote his memoir he […]
A quick look around Good Reads finds twelve biographies that are either directly about Parsons, or about the bands he was part of. So, if we are picking one source to learn about Gram Parsons why […]
There are many, especially among Americana aficionados, who would consider John W. Barry a very lucky man indeed. To have spent so much time with the late, great Levon Helm, at the tail end of his […]
Who better to write a biography of that acknowledged maestro of the pedal steel guitar that is Buddy Emmons, than a man who has become one of the mainstays of the Nashville musical community because of […]
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