Mark Olson

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Richard Parkinson

November 20, 2025 Richard Parkinson 6

Every writer faced with distilling the entire history of music into the Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time is faced with a need to place some boundaries around the task in order to get some […]

Classic Americana Albums: Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers “Pacific Coast Rambler”

August 3, 2022 Tim Martin 0

When the first Original Harmony Ridge Creekdippers album appeared in 1997 it was praised in places like Mojo as a return to ex-Jayhawk, Mark Olson’s folk and country roots. The story of Olson, his then wife […]

Unsung Heroes of Americana – Glitterhouse Records

November 26, 2021 Tim Martin 2

It’s nice to acknowledge the Unsung Heroes that helped those of us here, on the European side of the Atlantic, get access to some of the less obvious Americana acts that were making waves back home […]

Essentials: The top 10 Jayhawks + related albums

March 18, 2021 Clint West 5

Welcome to ‘Essentials’ a brand-new AUK series where we will be delving into the back catalogue of prominent americana artists and bringing you our estimation of either their top ten albums or their top ten tracks. […]

Classic Americana Compilations: Various Artists “Real: The Tom T. Hall Project” (Sire, 1998)

July 21, 2020 Clint West 1

There are musical moments in your life that are of such significance that you will remember them forever. I recall buying my first record, going to my first gig and lying in bed as a 15-year-old […]

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