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Top twenty Americana albums of 2020 revealed

January 28, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s official – coming direct from the pop-tastic UK Official Charts who, along side the usual pop charts of yore also produce the happening Americana Charts that the kids demand these days. And it was a […]

Something for the weekend: Bruce Springsteen “This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie Cover)”

January 22, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

That’s it for us this week, dear reader. We leave you with a song that Bruce Springsteen describes as, “…the greatest song ever written about America.” In the week that saw the 46th President of the […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Russell Murphy

November 19, 2020 Clint West 0

Our unrelenting quest to identify the ‘top 10 americana albums ever’ moves unstoppably on. We have more road behind us than is left in front, but the last miles are set to be as thrilling and […]

Interview: Nils Lofgren on his new live album and working with Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Ringo Starr

November 6, 2020 Andrew Frolish 4

Nils Lofgren has spent more than fifty years on the road as a touring musician. The experience of a Lofgren concert is mesmerising; it’s on the stage when his energy, dynamism and true talent are on […]

Springsteen is first artist to have top 5 album over 6 decades in US

November 4, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Bruce Springsteen’s ‘Letter to You’ hit the charts on both sides of the Atlantic last week, hitting indeed the number one spot here despite being nudged into the number two spot in the Billboard Top 200 […]

More People Really Should Know About: James Hodder

July 14, 2026 0

A couple of years ago I saw James Hodder perform in the basement room of Farringdon’s Betsey Trotwood, supporting Casey Neill and Jerry Joseph. This spatially challenged, cosy venue facilitates close proximity to the artists and […]

Ismay “Half Truth”

July 14, 2026 0

Quietly adventurous songs that reward patient listening with emotional depth and subtle musical invention. For listeners drawn to the quietly adventurous music of Aldous Harding, Cate Le Bon or Jessica Pratt, Half Truth, by California songwriter […]

Jenny Gillespie Mason “Medicine Of Light” – a healing balm

July 14, 2026 0

On her new album In the Safety of the Light, Jenny Gillespie Mason is turning back to her musical roots. After a decade pursuing psychedelic pop, jazz, and electronic textures through her project Sis (and most […]

Top twenty Americana albums of 2020 revealed

Something for the weekend: Bruce Springsteen “This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie Cover)”

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Russell Murphy

Interview: Nils Lofgren on his new live album and working with Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Ringo Starr

Springsteen is first artist to have top 5 album over 6 decades in US

More People Really Should Know About: James Hodder

Ismay “Half Truth”

Jenny Gillespie Mason “Medicine Of Light” – a healing balm

Video: Alex Southey “Green Sunday” – a constant giving-in

For The Sake Of The Song: Roger McGuinn “Car Phone”