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Features

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Number 8 – Uncle Tupelo “No Depression”

March 10, 2021 Clint West 1

So, it’s day three and we have arrived at number 8 in our writers’ picks. A seminal album without question, but does it live up to its folkloric status in the pantheon of great americana […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Son Volt “Trace” (Warner Bros, 1995)

August 5, 2020 Tim Newby 1

When Jay Farrar sings, “May the wind blow your troubles away,” on ‘Windfall’, about a long-distance drive to escape one’s problems and the opening track of Son Volt’s 1995 debut album, ‘Trace’, it came across […]

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Tracks

Songs for the apocalypse: Jay Farrar “Station to Station”

April 16, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Being an americana site we have to mention our own version of the Oasis vs Blur war, Son Volt vs Wilco (admittedly not quite the same war as Oasis and Blur were never in the […]

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AmericanA to Z – Uncle Tupelo

October 10, 2019 Steven Rafferty 0

There’s no way we could make our first trip through the alphabet without a tip of the hat to the band that some folks point to as the start of this thing we call Americana. […]

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Album Reviews

Son Volt “Union” (Transmit Sound, 2019)

April 11, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

While Jay Farrar might be considered as being pretty grounded when it comes to singing about familiar folk themes he’s never been a political writer. On ‘Union’ that changes as he here turns to topical […]

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Album Reviews

High Coast “Mind Pictures”

April 20, 2021 0

Scandinavian duo reflect on love and drinking and making one’s own decisions. High Coast are a Swedish duo of Daniel Walke on gently finger-picked guitar and August Wegestål on a lap steel that can’t help […]

Album Reviews

Chantal Acda “Saturday Moon”

April 20, 2021 0

Dreamy indie-folk with occasional highlights from Dutch singer-songwriter. Chantal Acda may not be a particularly familiar name to most AUK readers, but this record is actually the Dutch singer-songwriter’s fourth solo album on top of […]

Album Reviews

Riley Moore “Sweet Boy” EP

April 19, 2021 0

Moore goes back to nature and to create a bucolic beauty of an EP. Riley Moore’s ‘Sweet Boy‘ EP is the first of a series of 3 planned EP releases which builds upon his first […]

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Interview: Lifelong Nashville resident Stephen Flatt on his take on authentic country

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Interview: Cristina Vane on playing McCabe’s Guitar Shop, delta blues and old-time music

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Interview: Declan O’Rourke on his friendship with John Prine, and working with Paul Weller

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Interview: Rod Abernethy on his multiple careers and Bob Dylan Song award

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Interview: Americana UK Reader’s Poll multiple award winner Mike Ritchie on successful music radio

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A Night to Remember: Three is the Perfect Number

A Night to Remember
April 20, 2021 3

One of the things I like about AUK is that it tries to be the best of both worlds. Whilst it is essentially (and thankfully) a loose collective of fan girls and boys it is […]

Declan O'Rourke Abbey theatre

Declan O’Rourke, Live stream from The Abbey Theatre, Dublin -14th April 2021

Live Reviews
April 20, 2021 0

Tonight’s set is performed in the lush and prestigious Abbey Theatre, Ireland’s national theatre, established in Dublin in the very early 20th century; its founders included WB Yeats who could turn a memorable verse or […]

Nelson Sobral “Pendulum” – Listen

Tracks
April 20, 2021 0

Toronto’s Nelson Sobral is back with a slice of the rockier end of americana – ‘Pendulum‘ sees him wondering why this girl keeps swinging away and swinging back again.  Could it be something to do […]

High Coast “Mind Pictures”

Album Reviews
April 20, 2021 0

Scandinavian duo reflect on love and drinking and making one’s own decisions. High Coast are a Swedish duo of Daniel Walke on gently finger-picked guitar and August Wegestål on a lap steel that can’t help […]

Whatever Happened to…The Duhks

Features
April 20, 2021 2

It’s interesting what can kick you off thinking about a band you haven’t thought of in a long time. A few weeks ago, when I was writing about our intention to re-name the ‘Forgotten Artists’ […]

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