Eddie Berman – Americana UK

Album cover artwork for Eddie Berman's Broken English

Eddie Berman “Broken English”

January 27, 2022 Kimberly Bright 0

Berman’s prescient thoughtful folk album was written back in 2019 but sounds like it was inspired by the height of the pandemic. Portland-based folk singer-songwriter Eddie Berman found himself with an album’s work of material in […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Eddie Berman

January 21, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

For most of us, the last couple of years have been somewhat bleak and we music-lovers have missed our regular diet of live shows. At AUK, we’ve tried to ease the loss by posting intimate, exclusive […]

Interviews

Interview: Danny O’Keefe on making circular turns and having a good time

November 21, 2023 0

Still writing new songs in his ninth decade and celebrating his catalogue. Singer-songwriters write songs, and that is exactly what Danny O’Keefe has been doing all his working life, and he is still doing it in […]

Interviews

Interview: Corey Ledet on helping preserve the Louisiana dialect Kouri-Vini through songwriting

November 14, 2023 0

Why language and culture enhance the authenticity of music. Corey Ledet is one of the leading Creole and zydeco musicians of his generation, with a Grammy nomination to prove it, and an Americana UK favourite. With […]

Interviews

Interview: Carla Olson on the joys of collaborating and producing

November 7, 2023 2

Celebrating a life of playing and listening to music and tipping her hat to Paladin. Carla Olson first came to the wider attention of the listening public with her band the Textones who were part of […]

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 46

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 […]

Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Martin Johnson

August 31, 2023 27

How does anyone go about determining the top ten americana artists ever, and once you’ve worked that one out, how do you rank them in a meaningful way? These are the legitimate questions facing Americana UK […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 25

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 […]