Features
AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Dave Jarman
The search continues folks. Yes, its time to put yet another AUK writer into the hot seat. All each one has to do is to cast their eye across the whole history of americana and pick […]
Nick Lowe
News
UK americana festivals go virtual for the end of summer
Sadly in the end there were none – all the hopes americana festival-goers had for a late summer blow out were dashed by news earlier this month that Red Rooster wouldn’t in fact be going ahead […]
Album Reviews
Various Artists “Pandemophenia” (Bloodshot Records, 2020)
Mention the Chicago music scene to anyone and the Southside blues of Muddy Waters may spring to mind, others may recall a vibrant soul scene which included the Impressions and Curtis Mayfield, the Chicago folk scene […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Nick Lowe “The Impossible Bird” (Demon Records/Upstart, 1994)
Nick Lowe has reached the exalted position of a national treasure, with appearances on Breakfast TV and various TV chat shows and coverage in the national press. This was definitely not the case in 1993, when, […]
Features
10 country rock tracks by UK artists
Country rock is a genre of music that was developed in America in the late ‘60s and early ‘70s by American rock musicians adopting country flavourings and as a genre lasted until the end of the’70s. […]