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Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: the rest of the best

December 18, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

We will be publishing our albums of the year from tomorrow starting with numbers 20-11, as chosen by AUK’s writing team. But which albums almost made the list? Here are those which didn’t quite reach the […]

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s top 20 songs of 2025: Part Two, 10-1

December 16, 2025 Mark Whitfield 2

Following on from yesterday’s piece where I counted down from 20-11, here are my top ten tracks from 2025 which for me form the heart of the website and why I still love editing it after […]

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s top 20 songs of 2025: Part One, 20-11

December 15, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s been another very full on year here in AUK Towers, a year in which we got bombarded with albums but more than that, by the four minute pieces of music which make them up – […]

Something for the weekend: Briscoe “Saving Grace”

September 26, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. My excitement for the weekend is heading to the Beamish living museum of the north where hopefully I won’t be sentenced to 7 years hard labour […]

Briscoe “Heat of July”

September 23, 2025 Jonathan Smith 0

Fresh air, clear skies and open roads from Austin, Texas duo. Briscoe comprises songwriter duo Philip Lupton and Truett Heintzelman, lifelong friends based out of Austin, Texas. Following 2023’s “West of It All”, they have spent […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 1

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers