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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: Allen Steele “Coyote”

May 30, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Where America Might Go Next Part 2. Allen Steele’s ‘Coyote,’ published in 2002, marks the beginning of one of the best science fiction series of the last 25 years. It is 2070, and The United Republic […]

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Book Review: Paul Metsa and Rick Shefchik “Blood In The Tracks”

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It is, arguably, Dylan’s greatest album – but the story behind the recording of ‘Blood On The Tracks‘ shows that it didn’t have an easy time in coming together.  It was originally recorded in September 1974 […]

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Book Review: In-Law Country – Geoffrey Himes “How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985”

May 9, 2025 Tim Martin 2

Published in association with The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, this hefty (357 pages + notes) book examines what Himes calls “a musical movement of outsiders who, in time, became influential insiders.” As this […]

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Book Review: Neko Case “The Harder I Fight The More I Love You”

May 2, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Neko Case’s memoir provides a starkly honest picture of her early life as well as the route by which she came to be the artist and the person she is today.  The book takes us from […]

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Book Review: Andrew Lauder, Mick Houghton “Happy Trails – Andrew Lauder’s Charmed Life And High Times In The Record Business”

April 23, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Andrew Lauder will be a name well known to readers of several different vintages but especially from those clued in to the output from United Artists in the early 1970s and pages of Zigzag magazine from […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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My colleague Graeme Tait is taking a well-earned break this month, so he has graciously allowed me to step back in to fill his shoes for April’s review of the latest EPs. And what a very […]

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Bob Dylan “Bootleg Series 15: Travellin’ Thru” (Columbia Records, 2019)

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The first impression of ‘Bootleg Series 15: Travelin’ Thru‘ is how small it looks in comparison to recent releases in the Dylan archive series – we’ve been spoilt of course but this is no ‘Live ’66 […]

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A wonderful and perhaps career-defining early offering from an artist much appreciated by his peers but dogged by a lack of commercial success. A classic is best defined as something that is judged over a period […]

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