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Glasgow Americana to return in October

September 26, 2022 Emily Dongray 0

Glasgow Americana returns for its 15th annual Americana festival. The seven shows will run from the 5th through the 9th of October at various venues across the city. The line-up includes over twenty musicians from the […]

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Live Reviews

Cash Back In Fife, Woodside Hotel, Aberdour, Fife, 6th – 8th March 2020

March 13, 2020 Paul Kerr 0

A new addition to the Scottish music scene, Cash Back In Fife is a weekend of music dedicated to the memory of Johnny Cash and in particular, Cash’s delight at discovering he had ancestors who had […]

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Live Reviews

Glasgow Americana Festival, 2nd – 6th October 2019

October 15, 2019 Paul Kerr 0

In Glasgow, as a damp and dreich winter beckons, October has at least one beacon lighting up the dark nights, the annual Glasgow Americana Festival which has been warming the hearts of music lovers for 13 […]

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News

Red Rooster Festival announce female-led acoustic stage line-up

April 30, 2019 Mark Underwood 0

As it heads towards its 6th year in May of this year, the Red Rooster festival has announced a new collaboration with the Americana Music Association UK and New York singer-songwriter Sunny Ozell, who will be […]

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Live Reviews

Southern Fried Festival, Perth, Scotland, 26-29th July 2018

August 8, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

Eleven years old this year Southern Fried continues to occupy its position as the best Americana and roots music festival in Scotland and perhaps the best of its kind in the UK (although there are three […]

  • Something for the long weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Foreign Land”
  • Interview: Rodney Crowell discusses new album “The Chicago Sessions”
  • Dean Owens “El Tiradito (The Curse Of Sinner’s Shrine)”
  • AUK writer Paul Russell begins new music spot on Times Radio – tonight!
  • Live Review: Jerry Leger at Sounds In The Suburbs, The Doublet bar, Glasgow – 18th May 2023
  • Josh Ritter announces UK and Euro dates celebrating the 20th anniversary of his breakout album “Hello Starling”
  • 2023’s Americana festivals – where we are spending our summer?
  • Ewan Macintyre “Twenty First Century Fool”
  • M. Ward “New Kerrang” – let’s make a new noise, it’s a metaphor
  • Video: Hannah Rose Platt (feat. Ed Harcourt) “The Mermaid & The Sailor”
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Album Reviews

Dean Owens “El Tiradito (The Curse Of Sinner’s Shrine)”

May 26, 2023 0

AUK award winner continues to deliver widescreen thrills from his sojourn in Arizona. A chance meeting in Tucson a couple of years ago has led to an embarrassment of riches for Scottish artist Dean Owens.  AUK […]

Album Reviews

Ewan Macintyre “Twenty First Century Fool”

May 26, 2023 0

An intriguing transatlantic folk/soul blend with a touch of Gaelic for good measure. With the release of his fourth album ‘Twenty First Century Fool‘, Ewan Macintyre manages to span the Atlantic Ocean with the original tracks […]

Album Reviews

Annie Keating “Hard Frost”

May 25, 2023 0

Annie Keating maintains her excellent standard with a lovelorn slice of Americana. Annie Keating is a bit of a treasure and a longtime fixture on the Americana circuit. Based in Brooklyn for 30 years or more, […]

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Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 20

Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit + His Lordship, O2 Apollo, Manchester – 18th November 2022

November 22, 2022 18

AUK’s Clint West sees Jason Isbell complete a journey from small venue troubadour to the first modern americana superstar. On November 25th 2013 Jason Isbell played at Manchester’s Ruby Lounge in support of his newly released […]

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Rodney Crowell

Interview: Rodney Crowell discusses new album “The Chicago Sessions”

May 26, 2023 0

Interview: The Shootouts’ Ryan Humbert on delivering roots music from Akron Ohio

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale on growing up

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Interview: Eric Brace and Thomm Jutz on the current state of US-German Relations

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Something for the long weekend: Teenage Fanclub “Foreign Land”

Videos
May 26, 2023 0

That’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a brand new song from the lovely Teenage Fanclub who this week announced their new album ‘Nothing Lasts Forever’ which is due […]

Rodney Crowell

Interview: Rodney Crowell discusses new album “The Chicago Sessions”

Interviews
May 26, 2023 0

Chicago blues, John Prine,  Jeff Tweedy and loving Guy Clark enough to safely hate him. He may be seventy-two but that doesn’t mean Rodney Crowell has stopped developing as an artist. His latest album, ‘The Chicago […]

Dean Owens “El Tiradito (The Curse Of Sinner’s Shrine)”

Album Reviews
May 26, 2023 0

AUK award winner continues to deliver widescreen thrills from his sojourn in Arizona. A chance meeting in Tucson a couple of years ago has led to an embarrassment of riches for Scottish artist Dean Owens.  AUK […]

AUK writer Paul Russell begins new music spot on Times Radio – tonight!

News
May 26, 2023 1

Well it’s Friday and we’re delighted to announce that one of our very own writers, Paul Russell, will be starting a monthly music slot on Times Radio, with presenter and former culture minister Ed Vaizey, on […]

Live Review: Jerry Leger at Sounds In The Suburbs, The Doublet bar, Glasgow – 18th May 2023

Live Reviews
May 26, 2023 0

AUK caught up with Canadian Jerry Leger at the tail end of his Euro/UK solo tour in the cosy confines of Glasgow’s Doublet Bar. Last seen over here with his band The Situation almost exactly a […]

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