Allison Russell

Allison Russell “You’re Not Alone” – featuring Brandi Carlile

August 23, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

You know it’s a real pleasure to say that today’s song needs no introduction – since we all know and appreciate the talent of Allison Russell. A pleasure because after years of banging on about Birds […]

Allison Russell is double award winner at Folk Alliance International

May 20, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

The big announcements from the award ceremony at this year’s Folk Alliance International conference in Kansas, which is where Americana UK virtually is until Sunday, were Artist of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Birds Of Chicago “Love In Wartime”

January 24, 2022 Alan Fitter 1

In the last article in the Chain Gang series, Andrew Frolish mused on Sufjan Stevens’ ‘John Wayne Gorcy Jr’ from Stevens’ 2005 album ‘Illinois’ and that got me thinking, not about other songs about serial killers […]

AMA-UK Awards cancelled – award ceremony to be streamed online

January 21, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

The Americana Music Association UK (AMA-UK) has, with great regret, announced that UK Americana Music Week, due to take place in Hackney, London over January 24-27th, has been cancelled. This is due to the current COVID-19 […]

Americana UK’s Readers’ Poll 2021 – the results!

December 23, 2021 Mark Whitfield 8

So here we go, drum roll, break a leg, etc. We have counted up all your votes and are now ready to announce the winners of this year’s Americana UK Readers Poll. It’s been a funny […]