Laura Cantrell

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Number 4 – Laura Cantrell “Not the Tremblin’ Kind” (2000)

October 18, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

I have always hated bombast in music, and if I had to chose one part of americana broadly speaking that I can’t bear it’s that kind of Southern Rock dirge which is as far away from […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: The Shortlist

September 29, 2022 Clint West 8

We began our quest to find the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century’ way back in January. Since then, thirty AUK writers have offered up their own personal selections for readers to peruse. We […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Mark Whitfield

September 22, 2022 Mark Whitfield 7

Features Editor Clint West writes: Today we complete our writers’ choices of the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century’ with the selections of our founder, editor and guru Mark Whitfield. It’s been a fascinating […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Darren Lumbroso

April 14, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 1

In 1984 I discovered Elvis Costello. I quickly sought out his back catalogue. However, there was a problem. I couldn’t get my head around ‘Almost Blue’, his 1981 album of country covers. Aptly enough the album […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana albums of the 21st Century: Clint West

January 6, 2022 Clint West 7

AUK’s Features Editor Clint West introduces a new series for 2022 and then sets the ball rolling with his personal picks. When we chose ‘AUK’s Top 10 Albums Ever’ spread over 2020/2021 we found that a […]

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