Joy Oladokun

Something for the weekend: Joy Oladokun feat. Sheryl Crow “I’d Miss the Birds”

December 5, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. If you’re an AUK supporter, your monthly newsletter will be with you at 5pm with our exclusive end of year best of 2025 playlist which we […]

AMERICANAFEST announces additions to Festival lineup

August 7, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

The AMERICANAFEST lineup now offers nearly 200 official showcasing artists appearing at the festival in Nashville from September 9-13, 2025, with the addition of Dwight Yoakam and The Secret Sisters, along with special events Honky Tonkin’ […]

AMA announces nominations for 24th Annual Americana Honours and Awards

June 12, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

The Americana Music Association (AMA) – the US one that is – has announced the nominations for their 24th Annual Americana Honours & Awards for 2025. The awards will be presented at Nashville’s Ryman Auditorium on […]

Something for the weekend: Joy Oladokun “questions, chaos, & faith”

April 19, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with something from acclaimed singer, songwriter, and maverick Joy Oladokun who has officially shared her anxiously awaited new single today “questions, chaos, & […]

Mark Whitfield, AUK Editor – My top 20 songs of 2023: Part One, 21-11

December 18, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Johann Hari wrote a terrific book recently called “Stolen Focus” on why people can’t pay attention anymore, and it comes to mind when I reflect on the past 12 months having again failed to zone in […]

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