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It’s the 2025 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year

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December 5, 2025 Comments Off on It’s the 2025 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year

The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Jon Harmon

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Podcast number 10 now featuring South Korean band Wednesdayoff is now live!

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Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win tickets to see Lucy Mellenfield live

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Midlake “Eyes Full Of Animal” – is that a mirror?

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December 5, 2025 Comments Off on Midlake “Eyes Full Of Animal” – is that a mirror?

  • It’s the 2025 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year
  • The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Jon Harmon
  • Podcast number 10 now featuring South Korean band Wednesdayoff is now live!
  • Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win tickets to see Lucy Mellenfield live
  • Midlake “Eyes Full Of Animal” – is that a mirror?
  • Video: Serious Child “Veneer”
  • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Raw
  • Book Review: Alice Gerrard “Custom Made Woman – A Life In Traditional Music”
  • Maz O’Connor returning with fifth album in 2026
  • Beans On Toast “Kill Them With Kindness”
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  • Andrew Raw: Thanks, Rick. My Darling Clementine are well worth a listen.
  • Rick Bayles: Great set of songs, including a couple I'd never heard before. I shall be paying a bit more attention to…
  • Andrew Raw: Thanks very much, Andy. Wise words!

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Interview: Dan Bern has still got his fastball, and a change-up

December 2, 2025 1

In the smart and lively songs of Dan Bern, nuances are at work like honeybees in a hive. A busy swarm of subtleties generates a nucleus of narrative honeycomb that has more layers than an archaeologist’s […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Dillon Warnek “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep”

December 2, 2025 Comments Off on Behind the Songs: Dillon Warnek “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep”

Dillon Warnek’s “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep” is a sharp and dizzying collection of songs about everything and anything. “Rolling Stone” raved that his debut album “Now That It’s All Over”, was full of “wry character […]

Interviews

Caught Light: Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers on time, trust and the art of letting go

November 24, 2025 1

As we meet, Tony Dekker is sitting outside a café in Vancouver, Canada. It’s a fitting setting for a conversation with the Great Lake Swimmers’ frontman – calm, thoughtful and quietly attuned to the world around […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 37

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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