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Video: Drive-By Truckers “A Ghost To Most”

August 18, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Our summer series of retro Friday videos continues with the classic ‘A Ghost To Most’ from Drive-by Truckers.  This was a single from the Trucker’s 2008 album ‘Brighter Than Creation’s Dark’.  Based on a solid beat […]
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Drive-By Truckers “The Complete Dirty South”

June 30, 2023 Graeme Tait 2
Twenty-year anniversary album now available as the band original intended with three bonus tracks. Back in 2004 Georgia’s finest exports the Drive-By Truckers released their fifth album and the third in a trilogy of albums that […]
Features

AUK’s Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Clint West

June 23, 2023 Clint West 8
AUK Features Editor Clint West writes: Welcome to a brand-new feature where each week an AUK writer will select their ‘Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists’. We will then aggregate their scores to bring you our […]
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Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Drive-By Truckers “The Dirty South”

March 15, 2023 Andy Davidson 3
From 2001 up until 2005 the Drive-By Truckers were a huge, powerful and overwhelming force. A juggernaut. They aggressively, yet eloquently gave a voice to the blue collar South. People at the whim of capitalist forces […]
News

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit announce new album for the summer

February 22, 2023 Emily Dongray 0
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit have announced their latest album, ‘Weathervanes‘, which will be released on June 9th via Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers. This, the ex-Drive-by Truckers’ ninth album, comes after the band’s covers album ‘Georgia […]

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

July 14, 2026 0
Vancouver-born, Toronto-based singer-songwriter Alex Southey has released an absorbing new single. Green Sunday opens with gently insistent guitar before lush layers are introduced and, halfway through, percussion is ushered in, giving the song a greater urgency. […]

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  • 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”
  • Ed Snodderly “ES Pearl Presents Baggage Flies Free”
  • Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]
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Interview: Dietmar Leibecke on the ethos of Germany’s Static Roots Music Festival

July 6, 2026 3
Americana UK’s Rick Bayles’ monthly column, Vox Continental, shines a light on what is happening on the americana front in Europe. In his most recent column, Rick gave the nod to the Static Roots Festival, which […]

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I was fifteen. I knew nothing… at all. Desperate to attend a gig in London my mate Maz persuaded his sister who lived in a commune in Kings Cross to get some tickets. Maz was a […]
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A Night To Remember: Chris Mills and Matt Hill (Quiet Loner), The Sanctuary, Brighton, 2001

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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 […]
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Classic Clips: The Punch Brothers, Watchhouse and Sarah Jarosz play ‘Wildfire’ at the Green Mountain Bluegrass Festival 2022

July 28, 2023 0
The mandolin has been a favourite instrument of mine since I first heard Chris Hillman play with The Hillmen at the beginning of the 60s. The Telluride Bluegrass Festival has always been a happy hunting ground […]

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