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10 Songs about truckers and trucking – part three

December 15, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 9

The third instalment of this series, and don’t worry it’s the last.  The road may go on forever but this series does not.  Many of these picks are inspired by reader Pat Chappelle (so don’t […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: Grateful Dead “Friend of The Devil”

October 5, 2020 Ljubinko Zivkovic 5

So, the mention of Jerry Garcia, David Grisman and Tony Rice doing ‘House of The Rising Sun’ via Dave Van Ronk last week brings us to Grateful Dead and their ‘Friend of the Devil.’ It […]

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AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Ewan Lury

August 6, 2020 Clint West 2

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 […]

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Americana A to Z – Lyle Lovett

July 21, 2020 Ewan Lury 2

It was about 2015 that I first developed a love of country music. Now I know what you’re thinking, ‘don’t start talking about how much you love Dolly Parton’, but let me finish. It didn’t […]

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10 Grateful Dead Songs Covered By Bluegrass, Country and Americana Artists

April 22, 2020 Martin Johnson 4

The Grateful Dead have many claims to fame, from being at the heart of the development of psychedelic rock in San Francisco and paving the way for the Summer Of Love in 1967, to being […]

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Americana Roots: Pixie & the Partygrass Boys

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Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US.  It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts [...]

Americana Roots: Grayson Capps

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American Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US.  It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts [...]
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Americana Roots: Horseshoes & Hand Grenades

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  American Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US.  It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established [...]
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Americana Roots: Old Town Flood

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Americana Roots: Tenth Mountain Division

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Interview: Emily Barker reflects on her 2020 success and AMA-UK nomination

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The Band

AUK’s Chain Gang: The Band “Rag Mama Rag”

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January 26, 2021 0

Following on from last week’s ‘Mama’ theme, here is one of my favourite Band tracks.  It exemplifies the sort of raucous almost ramshackle sound at which they excelled and which proves irresistible. Not the best […]

Taco Tapes “Trad is Rad”

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January 26, 2021 0

Album delivers an old-time traditional feel drawing on songs a century apart  It’s always difficult to predict what will drop through the digital letterbox into the metaphorical arms of an Americana UK reviewer. Therein lies […]

What is Americana?

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January 26, 2021 0

Sorry to say, dear friends, that we’re not going to answer this question here. However, we’ve teamed up with Country In The UK to pose this question to a few UK acts in the week […]

Melissa Carper “Makin’ Memories” – Listen

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January 26, 2021 0

Melissa Carper is a talented singer-songwriter and upright bass player who is worth our intention if for no reason that one of her bands is The Carper Family.  Today’s song though is the Western swing […]

Video: Robert Vincent “The Ending”

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January 26, 2021 0

Here is the sublime new single from AUK-favourite Robert Vincent.  Vincent is nominated in two categories at the upcoming AMAUK Awards: UK Artist of the Year and UK Album of the Year for the acclaimed […]

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