Chris Mills

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Sean Hannam

May 26, 2022 Sean Hannam 1

Choose my top 10 americana albums of the 21st century? Tough call. To make it easier on myself, I tried not to deliberate too long on what would make the cut – there was no whittling […]

A Night To Remember: Chris Mills and Matt Hill (Quiet Loner), The Sanctuary, Brighton, 2001

April 7, 2021 Sean Hannam 1

Sean Hannam recalls the night which started his love affair with Americana. 2000 was a big year for me, but it wasn’t anything to do with ushering in the 21st century – it was the year […]

Classic Americana Albums: Chris Mills “Kiss It Goodbye” (Sugar Free/Loose, 2000)

December 9, 2020 Sean Hannam 1

Speaking to Ohio alternative weekly newspaper, The Cleveland Scene, in 2001, Chicago-based, alt-country singer-songwriter Chris Mills said of his second album, ‘Kiss It Goodbye’: “It’s about departures and things breaking down – relationships and things like […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Sean Hannam

November 26, 2020 Clint West 1

Back in May when this series started, I kicked it off myself on the basis that you can’t ask colleagues to go through this hell without doing it yourself first. Looking back at that top 10, […]

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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1

Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

May 15, 2026 0

Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]

Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”