John Hiatt

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Paul Russell

September 18, 2025 Paul Russell 5

Our new Feature seeks to find AUK’s writers’ pick as The Best Americana Song of All Time (some challenge!). Each writer will hand-pick their choice of 10 songs they think best fit this accolade, and we’ll […]

Essentials: The Top Ten Americana Songs of 2014

November 14, 2024 Dean Nardi 0

In 2024 there have been several 10, 20, 25, 30 even 50th anniversary albums reissued, remastered, revamped, remixed, revitalized, reconstituted, redeemed, re-recorded and finally released. It has renewed our faith in the music industry’s capacity to […]

Classic Clips: John Hiatt and Jerry Douglas “All the Lilacs from Ohio” from the Ryman Unplugged Series, 2022

September 20, 2024 FredArnold 0

It is never difficult to find Classic Clips of favourite artists, but at short notice this proved a little trickier than usual. Nevertheless, here we go with a fabulous acoustic duet version of probably the highlight […]

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For the Sake of the Song: John Hiatt “Have a Little Faith in Me”

August 5, 2024 Andy Short 2

For years, John Hiatt was in a category of his own. His own record company didn’t know where to place him. He is undoubtedly under Americana’s broad banner, but would you say he was country, blues […]

Interview: Gaby Moreno on “Dusk” and Van Dyke Parks

March 5, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

It is time for americana to welcome more latin influence. Guatemalan artist and Los Angeles resident Gaby Moreno is on a mission to bring more of a latin influence to americana, building on the pioneering work […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

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