Emily Barker

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Graham Bollands

September 1, 2022 GrahamBollands 2

Let’s start this in a familiar way! Yes, what an incredibly difficult task it is to make this list. Not just because putting together any countdown of ‘best albums’ is a huge challenge and so dependent […]

Something for the weekend: Emily Barker & Lukas Drinkwater “Tomorrow”

February 11, 2022 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a new recording from Emily Barker & Lukas Drinkwater, a cover of a song by the classic Aussie band Silverchair, ‘Tomorrow’ […]

Interview: Ralph Brookfield on the trail of americana music

September 24, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

Where americana came from, where it is and where it is possibly going. One of the big questions that is frequently asked around AUK Towers is what is Americana? While the question generates plenty of debate, […]

Glasgow Americana release line-up for festival at end of month

September 24, 2021 Emily Dongray 0

After last year’s cancellation, Glasgow Americana is back with its 15th Annual festival of music. The week sees Glasgow host musicians from all around the world as well as some local ones. On Wednesday, the festival […]

Festival Review: Red Rooster Festival, Euston Hall, Suffolk, 27th-29th August 2021

September 3, 2021 Oliver Gray 0

Our roving reporter, Oliver Gray, gets back into the field as music opens up. After a six-hour in-depth review of the M25, we arrived to the strains of Iraina Mancini, with a surprising and reassuringly old-fashioned […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 1

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers