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AUK’s Chain Gang: Guy Clark “Hemingway’s Whiskey”

June 21, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

Guy Clark’s pean to Ernest Hemingway and the freedom to live life to the full. Last week we were in the Highlands of Scotland with Gaelic supergroup Daimh who have been known to use a Guy […]

A Night to Remember: Saturday night at Black Deer Festival 2019

May 11, 2021 Emily Dongray 0

I hope you will forgive me, dear reader, in that my ‘Night to Remember’ is in fact, a whole day. Like Guy Lincoln’s post, my ultimate americana gig moment came as a trio of artists, and […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Emily Dongray

October 29, 2020 Clint West 3

Welcome once again to AUK’s ongoing quest to find the top 10 americana albums ever. For anyone new to this (and by the way, where have you been?) Each week a different AUK writer lists their […]

Kelley Swindall “You Can Call Me Darlin’ If You Want” (Velvet Elk Records, 2020)

October 5, 2020 Viv Fish 0

It is hard to believe this is a debut album and that this wannabe actress, turned singer-songwriter, was inspired to change course only after heartbreak inspired revenge. This album packs a punch so forthright that anyone […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Andrew Frolish

July 2, 2020 Clint West 1

At AUK we are on a quest to find the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums Ever’. Over the last few weeks our writers have been going through the mental anguish of trying to narrow the whole history […]

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