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Essentials: The Top Ten Songs That Name-Drop Other Artists

July 17, 2025 Andy Short 33
It has long been a tradition in music for artists to cover their favourite songs. Some take the original to the next level, while others are straight copies; some are plain weird, and finally, there are […]
Features

Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 10-1

December 20, 2024 Mark Whitfield 7
Yesterday we counted down numbers 20-11 in our top albums of 2024 and noted that we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up but that 2024 undoubtedly contained future classics which people […]
Videos

Video Review of the Year 2024

December 12, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
Here we are again, hurtling towards another Christmas and another year.  Time flies when we’re having fun, so 2024 must have been a good one.  An election in the UK gave me some hope.  An election […]
Essentials

Essentials: The Top Ten American Aquarium Songs

December 5, 2024 Andrew Raw 2
I am a huge fan of American Aquarium’s muscular alt-country with its great tunes and often anthemic choruses. They put the country into their alt-country with a liberal dose of wonderful pedal steel, which is never […]
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Live Reviews

Live Review: American Aquarium + The Watson Twins, Greenfield Lake, Wilmington, NC, 30th August 2024

September 19, 2024 Dean Nardi 0
 So I’m putting in the work / I’m digging in the dirt / I’m replanting my Southern roots. Having southern roots is first and foremost a matter of growing up in a deeply conflicted region and […]

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Something for the weekend: Here’s to Bob Harris

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June 5, 2026 1
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Teddy Thompson “Never Be The Same”

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Americana Stories – Dean Owens “The Motel And The Highway”

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Classic Clips: The Lost Gonzo Band with Jerry Jeff Walker and Gary P. Nunn “London Homesick Blues” – live from Texas Roadhouse, 1991

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The Severed Limb “Skiffle in the Rain”

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Something for the weekend: Here’s to Bob Harris

June 5, 2026 1
Well that’s it for this week dear reader. Don’t forget to get your tickets for our 25 year anniversary event if you haven’t yet – all the details are here. It’d be remiss of us to […]
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Album Reviews

Teddy Thompson “Never Be The Same”

June 5, 2026 0
Guitar-based pop, done skilfully, with words reflecting life’s imperfections. Teddy Thompson, the son of British folk icons Richard and Linda Thompson, was born in the UK but now lives in Brooklyn. This is his tenth self-penned […]
Features

Americana Stories – Dean Owens “The Motel And The Highway”

June 5, 2026 0
In March, we put out a request for short fiction written around the subject of americana. The first to answer our call was one of our favourite singer/songwriters, Dean Owens. He also appeared on our Podcast […]

  • Something for the weekend: Here’s to Bob Harris
  • Teddy Thompson “Never Be The Same”
  • Americana Stories – Dean Owens “The Motel And The Highway”
  • Classic Clips: The Lost Gonzo Band with Jerry Jeff Walker and Gary P. Nunn “London Homesick Blues” – live from Texas Roadhouse, 1991
  • The Severed Limb “Skiffle in the Rain”
  • Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood
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Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood

June 5, 2026 1
Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]
Interviews

Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

May 29, 2026 0
To say Ben Vaughn has had an eclectic musical career would be a gross understatement. He grew up in the Philadelphia area, and his journey into music began when a kind uncle gave him a Duane […]
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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

May 27, 2026 0
If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]

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Twang Factor 3: AUK’s showcase for new artists returns

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Once again we are offering a platform for new and emerging artists to share their music with our readers. AUK is looking for new and emerging artists to feature in our Twang Factor 3 competition. Contestents […]
Album Reviews

Kaia Kater “Strange Medicine”

June 25, 2024 0
Kaia Kater steps into the limelight with her baroque like folk stylings on a superb third album There’s a sense that Kaia Kater, a Canadian of Grenadian heritage is hitting the zeitgeist on “Strange Medicine”, her […]
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Sam Lee Announces new album and new tour – All is new

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It seems that everything Sam Lee attempts turns out to be just a little bit magical, and both his reinvention of Folk Song and his rededication to the craft of capturing songs from their Traditional singers […]

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