Jerry Garcia

The Song Remains: Frank Wakefield (1934-2024)

May 1, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

The Oppenheimer of bluegrass mandolin. On the 26th of April, 2024, the bluegrass world lost one of its true innovators when Frank Wakefield died at his home in Sarasota Springs, NY. Bill Monroe may be the […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 7 – Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead

February 8, 2024 Clint West 1

As our countdown of the Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists gathers pace we reach Number 7. Whilst some of our writers celebrated the Grateful Dead, a couple also honed in on the individual talent and […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Martin Johnson

August 31, 2023 Martin Johnson 27

How does anyone go about determining the top ten americana artists ever, and once you’ve worked that one out, how do you rank them in a meaningful way? These are the legitimate questions facing Americana UK […]

Andy Falco and Travis Book honour Jerry Garcia

July 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Andy Falco and Travis Book of The Infamous Stringdusters have teamed up to honour one of their biggest musical influences, Jerry Garcia, through a collaborative album ‘Falco and Book Play Jerry Garcia’ available on August 4th via Americana Vibes. It’s an album that […]

Book Review: Thomas S. Curren “I Believe I’ll Go Back Home”

December 2, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

The New England folk revival was not just about music but the real soul of America. The American folk revival of the late ‘50s and ‘60s had a massive influence on the mid-sixties music explosion, and […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Malin Pettersen “Alonesome” (Die With Your Boots On Records, 2019)

October 30, 2019 1

One of the fascinating things about this music genre we call Americana is the increasing amount of very credible recordings we’re getting from musicians living and working outside the USA. We’re seeing artists from countries like […]

Album Reviews

Reg Meuross “Raw” (Hatsongs, 2020)

October 30, 2020 0

Normally AUK doesn’t review releases sent to us more than six months after their release. This album, the third in a trilogy of stripped back folk songs from Reg Meuross, was originally released back in October […]

News

Rhiannon Giddens set for autumn tour with Francesco Turrisi

June 7, 2019 0

Rhiannon Giddens has had a busy time of late. In February, she led the ‘Our Native Daughters’ project, collaborating with US musicians Allison Russell (Birds of Chicago), Amythyst Kiah, and Leyla McCalla to recover and highlight some […]

The Song Remains: Frank Wakefield (1934-2024)

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Number 7 – Jerry Garcia / Grateful Dead

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Martin Johnson

Andy Falco and Travis Book honour Jerry Garcia

Book Review: Thomas S. Curren “I Believe I’ll Go Back Home”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”