Gillian Welch and David Rawlings

AMA announces nominations for 24th Annual Americana Honours and Awards

June 12, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

The Americana Music Association (AMA) – the US one that is – has announced the nominations for their 24th Annual Americana Honours & Awards for 2025. The awards will be presented at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on […]

Live Review: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Boch Center, Wang Theatre, Boston, Massachusetts – 10th May 2025

May 22, 2025 Andy Short 0

The Wang Theatre in Boston, Massachusetts, opened as simply The Met in 1925. Celebrating 100 years of entertainment and now home to the Folk Americana Roots Hall of Fame, it was only fitting that Gillian Welch […]

Gillian Welch and David Rawlings bring the Woodland to the UK and Ireland

March 11, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Gillian Welch & David Rawlings have announced long-awaited live dates for the UK and Ireland in October 2025. This marks their first headline tour this side of the pond since 2011’s run in support of that […]

2025 Grammy Americana Award winners announced

February 4, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1

Unless you’ve been living under a rock (and we do have some crabs as readers, you are very welcome around these parts) you’ll know that the Grammys took place in LA on Sunday evening which were […]

The Americana Spirit of 24: Peter Thompson

December 9, 2024 Peter Thompson 0

AUK writers look back at the last 12 months in americana, starting with our staff writer Peter Thompson. Is it that time already? The year has simply flown by – I feel like I’m still waiting […]

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