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Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win a pair of tickets to UK Americana Week 2025!

December 6, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Chuck Prophet, Laura Marling, Paul Kelly, Clem Snide and […]

UK Americana Music Week 2025 – AMAUK announces conference, showcases, awards and more

December 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

As January comes around it’s time for UK Americana Music Week over a number of venues in Hackney, East London from 20th to 23rd January 2025. The event provides a great opportunity to catch up with […]

Interviews

Interview: Nick Gusman on “Lifting Heavy Things” with The Coyotes

January 8, 2025 0

Keeping ‘90s alt-country alive while bringing new music to new audiences. If Nick Gusman and The Coyotes are an indicator then grassroots americana is still alive and well in St Louis, Missouri. The band who earned […]

Interviews

Interview: The Milk Carton Kids on “Christmas in A Minor Key”

December 19, 2024 0

When it really comes down to these two or three weeks, you want the Nat King Cole of it all. Christmas carolling is a tradition where groups of people bundle up and go door to door […]

Interviews

Interview: Danny George Wilson on “You Are Not A Stranger Here”

December 17, 2024 2

Why providing space for the musicians is key to creating big music. Some musicians who are approaching the 30th anniversary of their first record’s release may be tempted to take their foot off the pedal a […]

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 47

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague, who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 32

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win a pair of tickets to UK Americana Week 2025!

UK Americana Music Week 2025 – AMAUK announces conference, showcases, awards and more

Something for the weekend: Laura Marling “Caroline”

The Gordon Sharpe Americana Book Award 2024

AUK Back Pages No. 11

Sounds from beyond the Shed 169 “Travelling Music”

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win a pair of tickets to see Katherine Priddy live