Book Reviews
The Gordon Sharpe Americana UK Book Award 2025
We are now into year 3 of our celebration of the best books we reviewed in the previous year. To learn why we have named it for our still missed colleague you can read AUK editor […]
Chris Hillman
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Marty Stuart and The Fabulous Superlatives, ‘Runnin’ Down A Dream’, The Egg Center for the Performing Arts, September 18, 2018
After a weekend full of roots music at the FreshGrass Festival, North Adams, MA, I had the very good fortune to find myself three days later in Albany, NY in time to catch Roger McGuinn and […]
Book Reviews
Americana on Audio: Five books to listen to this summer
With the arrival of the English school holidays book writers’ thoughts turn to advising you what to read while trying to manage the activities and expectations of children or grandchildren. At AUK we are no different, […]
Book Reviews
The Gordon Sharpe Americana Book Award 2023
In May 2022 we lost one of our own. Gordon Sharpe’s pieces for AUK were always a pleasure to read. Having met at our get together in Clitheroe in 2020, we exchanged messages about the music, […]
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Herb Pedersen (with Chris Hillman and John Jorgenson) “Wait a Minute” – Live at Freight and Salvage, Berkeley 2017
To try and describe the musical contribution of Chris Hillman and Herb Pedersen to the various genres of music that they have encompassed or the number of artists that they have played with over the last […]