Well, that’s it from us for another week dear reader. We heard some sad news last night that Americana UK writer Gordon Sharpe, one of the stalwarts of the site in recent years, suffered a stroke earlier this week and is very poorly in hospital. You can browse all of Gordon’s passionate and informed writing for AUK here – from all of us at Americana UK, we send him all our best wishes for a speedy recovery and our love to his family.
Don’t forget to listen to our new podcast which launches today and is presented by AUK’s Emily Dongray – it’s your ears’ opportunity to catch up with all things AUK. Give your eyes a break, Jesus. We leave you this week with a track from the new Wilco album ‘Cruel Country’ (if you haven’t read our world-first review of the album yet, here it is) – as our review attests, the waiting is the cruellest part of the new record. Oh and finally, as a Liverpool based website, it’d be remiss of us not to wish our little team good luck tomorrow! Have a good one and take care.
So we begin our first full week back with a new feature here on AUK whereby we are starting our own kind of version of Radcliffe and Maconie's The Chain, a never-ending list of americana songs with some connection between each new track to the last. What better way to…
As we reach the final two in our list there was never any doubt that Wilco's masterpiece was going to feature heavily. Indeed it appeared in many our writers individual Top 10's. Ljubinko Zivkovic, making it his personal number one called it a "turn-of-the-century masterpiece", going on to describe it as "an…
After months of having their say, the collective wisdom of AUK's writers generated a shortlist of the best americana albums ever. That shortlist has now been whittled down to a top 10. Today we begin the process of revealing the culmination of that process. Over the next fortnight we will…
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