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AUK Back Pages No. 22

February 4, 2026 Paul Kerr 2

It’s the last four months of AUK’s tenth year as the premier online resource for all matters Americana. To mark the occasion there was a tenth birthday bash held in its heartland of Liverpool with a […]

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Mark Eitzel announces UK & European tour dates for 2025

October 31, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2

Mark Eitzel, former frontman of San Francisco’s American Music Club has announced his first European tour for eight years, taking place in spring 2025.  The majority of dates will be solo acoustic sets other than the […]

Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – week 20

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Never have so many students been assessed and teachers marked so much – roll on the weekend! The horrors of the pandemic notwithstanding, our Yr 11s and Yr 13s have really had a grim time of […]

Top 10 albums ever

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Jason McDonald

December 17, 2020 Clint West 4

Welcome to another set of wonderful albums as our writers continue to seek out the top 10 americana albums ever. As we approach the festive season we can begin to look forward to the climax of […]

Album Reviews

Mark Eitzel “Hey, Mr FerryMan” (Decor Records 2017)

March 21, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 0

Eitzel is an arresting cove. A lounge room crooner with impeccable Americana credentials and instincts. Beyond that an entertaining, erudite man with much to say and a lot to share. This album marks a massive up […]

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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Kurt Vile “One Trick Ponies” – Listen

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Kurt Vile has just dropped a new track online, ‘One Trick Ponies’ which is taken from his new album ‘Bottle It In’ due out October 12th on Matador. It’s a tipsily swaying, big-hearted country-rock song with an uplifting […]

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Natalie Bouloudis is a native of East Sussex who first got her musical education in childhood, having played clarinet in jazz bands and had a few guitar lessons at school.  Her debut EP is her first […]

Album Reviews

The New Faith “Me On You” (Faith Healer Records, 2017)

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Big sounding records sometimes bully me into submission and the sheer force of the music carries me along. Pete Wylie was like that, a wave of infectious exuberance, with tunes. Then there are more modern exponents […]

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