Features
AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Ewan Lury
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 […]
Lyle Lovett
AmericanA to Z
Americana A to Z – Lyle Lovett
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 take […]
Features
10 Grateful Dead Songs Covered By Bluegrass, Country and Americana Artists
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 the […]
Album Reviews
Classic Americana Albums: Lyle Lovett “Pontiac” (MCA/Curb, 1987)
I am sure it is an apocryphal and familiar story, but it does have a point regarding Lovett’s surprising union with Julia Roberts. There was speculation about how the one might manage to live with the […]
Videos
Video: Lyle Lovett “If I Had a Boat”
This week’s retro video is the beautiful ‘If I Had a Boat’, the opening song on ‘Pontiac’, released by Lyle Lovett in 1987. The album reached number 12 in the Billboard Country Chart and was certified […]