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Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2025: the rest of the best

December 18, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
We will be publishing our albums of the year from tomorrow starting with numbers 20-11, as chosen by AUK’s writing team. But which albums almost made the list? Here are those which didn’t quite reach the […]
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Video Premiere: Pat Carter “Barbed Wire”

December 2, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the video for ‘Barbed Wire’, the latest single from artist, singer and producer Pat Carter. Over a restless rhythm from drummer Alssandro Guida, Carter delivers a characterful vocal performance and a compelling melody. There’s a […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Pat Carter

November 25, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Pat Carter is the singer and principal songwriter for the Berlin-based americana band Rodeo-FM. Their albums are highly recommended as both musically and lyrically outstanding. As Carter has mused, “I guess every songwriter wants to write […]
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Album Reviews

Pat Carter “Love in the Time of Capitalism”

August 12, 2025 Andrew Raw 1
Socialist americana with powerful and empathetic words on the casualties of capitalism. Berlin-based Pat Carter is the “driving force” behind indie americana band Rodeo FM, who have produced four albums, with the last one being “Right […]

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For all the years I’ve been Editor of AUK, I’ve been itching for us to do a best song of all time feature. We’ve had so many “best of” series in recent years covering artists, albums, […]
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Stunning homage to historical Muscle Shoals Studios recordings by budding Swedish superstar soul roots singer. A couple of years ago, your humble writer had the great pleasure to review the third album of a budding soul […]
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Bonnie Prince Billy “We Are Together Again”

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How community might just save you from yourself (and the world). “However dimly we perceive it, we are living through a change of worlds. The one we were born into is slipping away, reshaped and denuded […]

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]
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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

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Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

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I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped the […]

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‘Algo Azul‘ is taken from Escovedo’s album ‘La Cruzada; which is released on August 27th, via Yep Roc.  It might sound somewhat familiar – it’s the Spanish language edition of the 2018 album ‘The Crossing‘, it […]

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