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10 Americana songs with great lyrics

September 14, 2020 Mark Underwood 9

Mark Underwood continues with the fifth in his irregular feature on music by great songwriters with great lyrics, this time taking you through classics from the likes of Amy Speace, Alejandro Escovedo, Neil Young and […]

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AUK’s Top 10 Americana albums ever: Peter Churchill

June 18, 2020 Clint West 3

At AUK we are now well into our quest to find the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums Ever’. Over the coming weeks and months each AUK writer will in turn, present their own personal selections. When […]

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10 Americana songs with great lyrics

May 26, 2020 Mark Underwood 4

Mark Underwood continues with the fourth in his irregular feature on music by great songwriters with great lyrics, this time taking you through classics from the likes of Gretchen Peters, Kathleen Edwards, Bob Dylan and […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: Gretchen Peters “Hello Cruel World”

February 10, 2020 Rick Bayles 1

Following on from Peter Churchill’s excellent choice last week I was thinking that what I particularly love about Americana is the quality of the songwriting. With that in mind I’ve decided to post a track […]

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10 songs for lovers of great writing

January 2, 2020 Mark Underwood 3

Mark Underwood continues his irregular feature on music by great songwriters with great lyrics.

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Andrew Farriss “Andrew Farriss”

April 9, 2021 0

Clean-cut pop ditties laced with deftly produced, occasionally mawkish Americana. Memorably insipid. When the co-founder and primary songwriter of a band as famous as INXS makes an Americana album, it’s fairly predictable that even mainstream […]

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Francesca Brown “Live From Quarantine EP”

April 9, 2021 0

EP highlights Brown’s polished vocals, while staying within the well-worn safety of a simple pop-country vein. California based singer-songwriter Francesca Brown’s latest offering is a six-song EP, ‘Live From the Quarantine’. As the name implies […]

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Aerial East “Try Harder”

April 9, 2021 0

Strange yet familiar, dreamlike yet tangible; a beautiful and intimate record.  Aerial East’s ‘Try Harder‘ is a coming of age record about what it means to be a woman in America. At once strange and […]

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Something for the weekend: Rosanne Cash “The Killing Fields”

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April 9, 2021 0

That’s us again for this week dear reader. We leave you with a new powerful song from Rosanne Cash in which she tackles the US’s dark history of lynchings, called ‘The Killing Fields.’ “A few years […]

Watch the Live-to-Tape Livestream: Bahamas ft. Dawes April 10th 2021

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April 9, 2021 0

We music-lovers have missed live shows over the last year.  However, one of the genuine highlights of recent months has been the explosion in online gigs and the way that artists and promoters have increasingly […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Here are the results of the readers’ vote

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April 9, 2021 6

Firstly a big thank you to our readers who voted in their droves. We really do appreciate your participation and love the brilliant list that your collective thoughts have generated. There were only six common […]

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Andrew Farriss “Andrew Farriss”

Album Reviews
April 9, 2021 0

Clean-cut pop ditties laced with deftly produced, occasionally mawkish Americana. Memorably insipid. When the co-founder and primary songwriter of a band as famous as INXS makes an Americana album, it’s fairly predictable that even mainstream […]

Book Review: Robert Shelton “Bob Dylan: No Direction Home”

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A new re-issue of the classic Dylan biography as he nears his 80th birthday. Never judge a book by its cover – but in this case that is going to be the first thing that […]

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