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New Bootleg Series release from Dylan

July 27, 2021 Jonathan Aird 2
This news hit at the end of the week – so why so long for us to pass it on to you, dear reader? Could it be that it slipped the Deputy Editors’ mind because he […]
Interviews

Interview: Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams on “It Was The Music”

June 22, 2021 Martin Johnson 0
How jams at the back of Bob Dylan’s tour bus and Levon Helm’s Barn helped a personal relationship become a musical one. ‘It Was The Music’ is a 10 episode documentary series by director Mark Moskowitz […]
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The Flatlanders “She Belongs To Me” – Dylan covered in style, Listen

June 9, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
These three bad looking hombres are Butch Hancock, Joe Ely, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore and together they are the Americana supergroup Flatlanders.  And they have a new album out, their first in over a dozen years.  it’s called […]
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Our new AUK supporters playlist is out today

June 4, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0
Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out today for AUK supporters, along with, in celebration of his 80th birthday, a giveaway of another new book courtesy of […]
Book Reviews

Book Review – David Boucher and Lucy Boucher “Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen: Deaths and Entrances”

June 3, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 9
Leonard Cohen and Bob Dylan, their influences, longevity and their ‘Duende’. Having reviewed several books recently; collectively they have made me realise that a past inclination to only stick with musical biographies and autobiographies was a […]

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Paperback Riders: Johnny Rogan “The Byrds Timeless Flight” and “Timeless Flight Revisited”

May 29, 2026 0
There are rock biographies, and then there are monuments. Johnny Rogan’s Timeless Flight: The Definitive Biography of the Byrds, first published in 1981, belongs firmly in the latter category Rogan was a twenty-something and still at […]
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Classic Clips: Richmond Fontaine and Amy Boone “Post to Wire” – Live in-store at Rough Trade East, London – 14th September 2011

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I guess pretty much everyone reading this on Americana UK is familiar with and, judging by the plaudits heaped upon them, deeply enamoured with The Delines; the dark twisted tales of the underbelly of the American […]
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Great Lake Swimmers “Caught Light”

May 29, 2026 0
New personal horizons are explored, reverting to the sound of the 70s. Led by frontman and founder Tony Dekker, Great Lake Swimmers have been around since the early 2000s. The band has evolved through a shifting […]

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  • Classic Clips: Richmond Fontaine and Amy Boone “Post to Wire” – Live in-store at Rough Trade East, London – 14th September 2011
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  • Live Review: Sweet Sounds of the South, Riverside Studios, London – 16th May 2026
  • Lewis Pugh “Heretics & Heritage”
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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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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3
Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 224 “Early Morning Thoughts”

March 16, 2026 0
Generally, there’s a rhythm to the week, and as the days get longer and the mornings lighter, that rhythm tends to stretch a bit. I’ve always been a ‘morning person’; I’ve spent most of my life […]
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Amy Speace “The American Dream”

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Songs of innocence and experience form a poetic musical memoir. Amy Speace will be familiar to many as the winner of the UK Americana Music Association’s 2020 International Song of the Year Award for ‘Me and […]

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