Features
Here are the results of the Americana UK Readers’ Poll 2025
So here we go again – as is tradition, on our last day of publishing for the year, we can share with you the results of this year’s readers poll in which hundreds of you voted […]
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: The Doobie Brothers
A couple of guys from college and I attended one of the Doobie Brothers’ shows back in the early ‘70s, and we couldn’t help but be fixated on this huge banner which stretched from one end […]
Features
More People Should Really Know About: Mark Jones
How much great music is left in the basements and attics of houses, behind a shelf in the backroom of a disused studio, abandoned in a box of dusty LPs? How much can we salvage and […]
Tracks
Morton Valence “Punch Drunk” – seeing the world through a blurred lens
There’s a couple of things that you’ll notice immediately about this new song from Morton Valence – the first is likely to be that it’s seasonally inappropriate, as Robert ‘Hacker’ Jessett sings “It was a cold […]
Videos
Video: The Doohickeys “Santa Needs a Beer”
So this is it – my final video post of the year before AUK puts its collective feet up for Christmas. It had to be a new festive song, so here is Los Angeles-based duo The […]
News
Americana UK’s album of 2025 is The Delines “Mr. Luck & Ms. Doom”
It might have seemed that this choice was on the cards all along, Americana UK has hardly hidden its collective love for The Delines under a bushel – but then look at the rest of the […]
There’s a couple of things that you’ll notice immediately about this new song from Morton Valence – the first is likely to be that it’s seasonally inappropriate, as Robert ‘Hacker’ Jessett sings “It was a [...]- So this is it – my final video post of the year before AUK puts its collective feet up for Christmas. It had to be a new festive song, so here is Los Angeles-based duo [...]
- What does a year in the Tracks really mean? On the one hand running the Tracks feature (and we’re sweeping up all other new music Tracks under that banner) means that there will be a [...]
- Fans of Elles Bailey got a first experience of her new album at an intimate gig at Rough Trade in Bristol in November. As a follow-up, Bailey has released a new single, ‘Better Days’, which [...]
- Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. We’ll be back on Monday where we announce our writers’ top 10 albums of 2025 and then our final day of posting for the year [...]
Richard Parkinson:
The company Americana Music Association UK Limited is showing up at Companies House as being in the process of being…
Carl Parker:
When is the Americana Awards Ceremony taking place? I can find nothing about it.
Cheryl Main:
Misspelling an artists name is not a great sign (find the random v), but the list is pretty solid overall.
