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The Gordon Sharpe Americana UK Book Award 2025

January 16, 2026 Tim Martin 6

We are now into year 3 of our celebration of the best books we reviewed in the previous year. To learn why we have named it for our still missed colleague you can read AUK editor […]

Paperback Riders: Southern Writers and the bleaker bits of Christmas

December 16, 2025 Tim Martin 0

For 2023’s festive ‘Paperback Riders‘, we looked at ‘A Christmas Carol‘ and why it is the best-loved seasonal book in the USA, despite being so quintessentially English. Maybe it’s Charles Dickens’s ghosts and redemption themes, or […]

Book Review: Alice Gerrard “Custom Made Woman – A Life In Traditional Music”

December 4, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

The word ‘legend’ is overused in the world of music writing; too often applied as a lazy label to someone who is merely well-known or a favourite of a particular scribe. In the case of Alice […]

Jeff Apter book: "Carl Perkins The King of Rockabilly"

Book Review: Jeff Apter “Carl Perkins The King of Rockabilly”

November 19, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

If the Shoe Fits. “Life ain’t nothing but a blending up of all the ups and downs/ Dammit Elvis, don’t you know.” Mike Cooley’s opening line on the 2004 track ‘Carl Perkins’ Cadillac’. A double sovereign […]

Paperback Riders: Suzy Shaw and Mick Farren “Bomp! Saving the World One Record at a Time”

November 10, 2025 Tim Martin 0

This is a beautiful, coffee-table-sized book which is a time capsule, bottling a crucial period in rock ‘n’ roll history. Its format is its strength: a compilation of reprints, facsimiles, and archival material from Greg Shaw’s […]

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Jim Lauderdale and The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “The Birds Know”

April 14, 2026 0

Superb collaboration from an americana legend and bluegrass torchbearers. Well, where to start with Jim Lauderdale? The man is so prolific that the virtual ink on the review of his last album, Country Super Hits Volume […]

Ian Prowse announces 12th album and extensive tour dates

April 14, 2026 0

Merseyside’s Ian Prowse has announced his brand-new album, No Names, will be released on 3rd July 2026 via Learpholl Music. Featuring special guests Elvis Costello, Steve Wickham, Damien Dempsey and Prowse’s 14-year-old daughter Rosalita, No Names […]

Tenderness “True”

April 14, 2026 0

Tenderness’s debut is a sweet blend of the musical and emotional themes of love and loss. Tenderness is the nom de scene for the solo project of Katy Beth Young, formerly and maybe currently of Peggy […]