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More People Really Should Know About: Rita Bliss

May 6, 2025 Andy Short 0

In the summer of 2024, AUK writer Paul Kerr reviewed an album that whetted his appetite from a talented banjo player based in Texas. The album “Peaches and Apple Pies” was highly recommended. This coincided with a […]

Book Review: Uncut – Ultimate Genre Guide, Singer-Songwriter

March 19, 2025 Tim Martin 0

The Uncut ultimate music guides cover the careers of single artists but miss out on those who may not fill up a 100-page bookazine as the trade calls them. That’s where the genre guides plug up […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Paul Kerr

January 11, 2024 Paul Kerr 7

As has been mentioned many times before in this feature, there’s a conundrum at the heart of it. First off, what on earth is americana? Well, for this piece, it’s whatever I decide fits the bill. […]

Allison Russell “The Returner”

September 7, 2023 Martin Johnson 0

Funk blends seamlessly with country folk in a joyous celebration of life and hope. Allison Russell had a twenty year career with various collaborations before she released her debut autobiographical solo album, ‘Outside Child’, which chronicled […]

Paperback Riders – Barney Hoskyns “Hotel California”

April 3, 2023 Tim Martin 0

Subtitled “Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons, 1967-1976”, this the story of how Country mixed with pop, rock and folk to create something new in the hills above Los Angeles. It’s also the story […]

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