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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Mark Whitfield

March 5, 2026 Mark Whitfield 8
For all the years I’ve been Editor of AUK, I’ve been itching for us to do a best song of all time feature. We’ve had so many “best of” series in recent years covering artists, albums, […]
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Video Premiere: Jason McNiff & Tobias Panwitz “Impossible to Love”

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Old friends Jason McNiff and Berlin’s Tobias Panwitz deliver an infectious new single with ‘Impossible to Love’. This excellent co-write explores the theme of human relationships and miscommunication. The singers deliver their lines in their native […]
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Vox Continental: May 2025

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This month, we have new music that includes releases from two excellent Norwegian bands and an Anglo-German duet, among others, along with a look at some upcoming festivals in Continental Europe. One of the things I […]
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Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor’s Top 20 songs of 2024: Part One, 20-11

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As I often remark these days, or these years, where once my musical life was all about albums, I along with apparently everyone under the age of 65 now have the attention span of a goldfish […]
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Jason McNiff “Everything’s A Song”

June 5, 2024 Peter Churchill 0
A manifesto for life from Hasting’s finest. Hastings. 1066 and all that. Oh, and the hotbed of crime that kept Inspector Foyle on his toes during the war years. For fear of mimicking the Pythons, apart […]

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Live Review: Gillian Welch & David Rawlings, Guthrie Green, Tulsa, Oklahoma – 29th April 2026

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Elliott Brood “Ghost Gardens” (Paper Bag Records, 2017)

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Elliott Brood are a three piece band – musicians Mark Sasso, Casey Laforet and Stephen Pitkin – who hail from Ontario, Canada and “Ghost Gardens” is their sixth full length studio album and the first since […]
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Julian Taylor “Opening The Sky (Acoustic Version)” – letter to the future

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This is a great reimaging of a song from Julian Taylor’s album ‘Beyond The Reservoir‘ taking it in a more acoustic direction for a more organic folky feel.  Julian Taylor explains his thoughts on why he […]
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Live Review: The Milk Carton Kids, Union Chapel, Islington, London – 20th May 2023

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What can I say about this duo? They have already appeared four times on the Americana UK website this year, and on numerous previous occasions. In fact, there is plenty to say about their live performance […]

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