Loudon Wainwright III

Transatlantic Sessions announces special guests for 2025 tour dates

November 15, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1

Transatlantic Sessions 2025 celebrates 30 years since the original TV series first aired. An annual focal point of Celtic Connections festival in Glasgow and a highlight of the winter concert calendar, the line-up of Transatlantic Sessions […]

Our new supporters playlist comes out today – Win a pair of tickets to see a Transatlantic Sessions show!

November 1, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Danny and the Champs, Dawes, Chuck Ragan, Amy Speace, […]

Something for the weekend: Loudon Wainwright III “Just Like Buster Keaton”

May 12, 2023 Mark Whitfield 2

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, and here at AUK Towers in Liverpool we are already covered in glitter and Lambrini in preparation for tomorrow’s Eurovision antics. I did try to find […]

Loudon Wainwright III “Town & Country” heading back from the country

June 13, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

It’s Loudon Wainwright in full band mode on this new song from his latest album ‘Lifetime Achievement‘ which is out on August 19th. Its his 31st studio album. There’s a few compilations, demo collections, live albums […]

A very happy Christmas to all our readers

December 23, 2021 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it for us for this year, which probably feels like a good thing to most of us! Despite the ominous feeling to, well, everything, music was the proverbial slimline tonic which got us through […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 1

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