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I picked up the loaded dice – Jon Aird’s 2024 year in review

December 16, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

Has this year actually finished up already? Ignoring everything that happened for good and for ill out in the greater world, it has been a crazy musical ride – so many fantastic albums, so many amazing […]

Live Review: Love With Johnny Echols, The Stables, Wavendon – 31st July 2024

August 27, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Is this Love that we’re seeing? Well, since the band on stage tonight started touring behind Arthur Lee, firstly under their own name of Baby Lemonade and later on as Love, and since the five-piece now […]

Americana Vinyl Treasures: Morning “Morning”

November 28, 2023 Richard Parkinson 1

Writers, including this one, have waxed lyrical on the gems to be found in the cut-out bins, secondhand stores and clearance sales. Another great source for hearing a wider range of music was the sampler; budget […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Laurel Canyon albums

September 2, 2021 Alan Fitter 5

If anyone ever invented a time machine (unlikely, if not impossible but I can dream can’t I?) there are a lot of times and places I’d go back to but Laurel Canyon any time between 1967 […]

A Night to Remember: Arthur Lee and Love at The Limelight, Crewe – September 2nd, 2002

July 13, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 7

Buddhist Punk comes to Crewe and steals the Limelight. There has always been a bit of a debate about Love – and no you aren’t reading Cosmopolitan by mistake – here at AUK. Mr Lee and […]

Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

August 7, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm. We leave you dear reader with a new song from Nate Amos aka This […]

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0

At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

August 7, 2026 0

A powerful message that’s relayed with the kind of vigour and skill needed to make people sit up and listen. “In his oval room, in his rockin’ chair / He’s the president, but I don’t care […]

I picked up the loaded dice – Jon Aird’s 2024 year in review

Live Review: Love With Johnny Echols, The Stables, Wavendon – 31st July 2024

Americana Vinyl Treasures: Morning “Morning”

Essentials: The Top 10 Laurel Canyon albums

A Night to Remember: Arthur Lee and Love at The Limelight, Crewe – September 2nd, 2002

Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012

The Wild High “Listen to The Wild High”