Karen Dalton

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Kimberly Bright

January 18, 2024 Kimberly Bright 4

After seven months of this series, it has been entertaining to see how many different artists have appeared on AUK writers’ lists instead of the same names repeatedly. By my count, it has been about 110 […]

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Record Store Day – the Americana UK guide to the releases

April 22, 2022 Emily Dongray 1

It’s that time again where the format fiends get excited about queueing at 5 am (or earlier) to be among the few to own this year’s exclusively released records. Record Store Day started in 2007 and […]

Karen Dalton’s “In My Own Time” gets 50th anniversary release

November 25, 2021 Emily Dongray 2

Classic album ‘In My Time‘ by folk legend Karen Dalton will be rereleased in March 2022 by reissue specialists Light in the Attic Records. The album features Dalton’s covers, including ‘Take Me‘ by George Jones and […]

Doc n’Roll Film Festivals return this week

October 26, 2021 Emily Dongray 0

After cancelling last year, the national festival of music documentaries returns for the eighth Doc n’ Roll. The programme includes 34 feature-length music documentaries plus eight shorts, screening in 11 cities across the United Kingdom and […]

AmericanA to Z: Karen Dalton

July 14, 2020 Tim Martin 2

Many artists go unrecognised in their lifetimes. Some of them end up with a “cult” following, and some end up with such a huge weight of myth surrounding them that their music often fails to live […]

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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1

Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

May 15, 2026 0

Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]

Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”