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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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Paperback Riders: Studs Terkel “American Dreams: Lost and Found” 

June 22, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0
America’s premier oral historian investigates its abiding myth. On the website of the publisher, New Press, in an uncredited paragraph, ‘American Dreams: Lost and Found’, and its author, Studs Terkel, is described as follows: “Terkel persuades […]
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Book Review – Rickie Lee Jones “Last Chance Texaco: Chronicles of an American Troubadour”

June 7, 2021 Paul Kerr 0
An engaging account of a troubled kid whose dreams kind of came true. Despite her numerous albums and two Grammys, Rickie Lee Jones is remembered by many in the main for her brief relationship with Tom […]
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Book Review – David Boucher and Lucy Boucher “Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances”

June 3, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 9
Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, their influences, longevity and their ‘Duende’. Having reviewed several books recently; collectively they have made me realise that a past inclination to only stick with musical biographies and autobiographies was a […]
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Book Review – Jonathan Taplin “The Magic Years: Scenes From a Rock-and-Roll Life”

June 1, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0
A book that asserts music’s power to bring change. Former A-list road manager, movie producer, investment banker, professor, technological inventor, and writer, Jonathan Taplin’s memoir tells you more about his life and times than about the […]
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Paperback Riders: John Howard Griffin “Black Like Me”

May 11, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0
Blackface or bravery – you decide. ‘Rest at pale evening / A tall slim tree / Night coming tenderly / Black like me’  – from, ‘Dream Variations‘ by  Langston Hughes John Howard Griffin disguised himself as […]

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Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

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April 17, 2026 0

Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

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April 17, 2026 0

Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

Album Reviews
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Book review: Richard Houghton “Iain Matthews: A People’s History”

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Tracks

Something for the weekend: This is Lorelie “Where’s Your Love Now (Waxahatchee Version)”

April 17, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week. Regular readers will no doubt be sick to death now of me plugging this guy but his stuff is so good and as if any more proof was […]
Interviews

Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
Album Reviews

Remedy Motel “Counting Sand”

April 17, 2026 0
Utah band on a roll with their second ‘comeback’ album after a 15-year hiatus. You feel as though you should showcase this band in our Feature article More People Really Should Know About..…because, despite the fact […]

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  • Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Alasdair Fotheringham

August 20, 2020 1
After a week off to catch our breath, AUK’s quest to find the ’10 best americana albums ever’ returns this week with the selections of Alasdair Fotheringham.  Each week a different AUK writer offers his or herself […]
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Book Review: Xan Brooks “The Catchers”

November 1, 2024 0
Xan Brooks is a freelance writer and broadcaster now specialising in cinema. He was an associate editor of The Guardian and, before that, a writer and editor at the Big Issue magazine. His first novel, ‘The […]
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Interview: Clive Carroll on celebrating John Renbourn with “The Abbot”

February 16, 2024 0
Renaissance music in the morning, Oliver Messiaen for lunch, and Merle Haggard at night. Clive Carroll is a leading British guitarist who was educated at London’s Trinity College of Music. However, he hasn’t let a formal […]

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