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AUK Shortcuts: Kirsten Adamson, Garrett Hendricks, Levi Foster, Austin Stambaugh, Jack Schneider, The Shallow Riverbanks, Elizabeth & Jameson and Peter Stampfel

October 20, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently, which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites, […]
Tracks

Peter Stampfel “Cognitive Behavioural Therapy” – let’s look at it this way

September 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Peter Stampfel – he of the Fugs and the Holy Modal Rounders – has a new and, hey no real surprise, rather unusual new album coming out.  It’s called “Song Shards: Soul Jingles, Stoic Jingles, Vintage […]
Obituaries

The Song Remains: Michael Hurley (1941- 2025)

April 9, 2025 Paul Kerr 1
The passing of Michael Hurley who died on April 1st aged 83 closes the chapter on a remarkable musician. AUK wrote of him a while back that he “ploughed his own unique furrow of pastoral, homespun […]
Interviews

Interview : One Hundred Years Of Songitude with Peter Stampfel

January 20, 2021 Paul Kerr 0
The legendary Peter Stampfel talks to AUK about his magnum opus, 100 songs plucked from all 100 years of the 20th Century As one-half of the legendary Holy Modal Rounders, Peter Stampfel was one of the […]
Obituaries

The Song Remains: Steve Weber 1943-2020

April 7, 2020 Paul Kerr 0
The death of Steve Weber, one half of the fabled Holy Modal Rounders, progenitors of underground then psychedelic and eventually freak-folk has, for the most part gone unnoticed. The Rounders, a guitar, banjo and fiddle duo […]

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Something for the weekend: Clem Snide “Where Have You Gone”

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June 19, 2026 1

American Aquarium “New Ways To Lose”

Album Reviews
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Shearwater

Shearwater return with “The New World” next month

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Americana Stories – Vicki Wilson “Keeping Warm”

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Classic Clips: Teddy Thompson “She Thinks I Still Care” – Transatlantic Sessions, 2013

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Tracks

Something for the weekend: Clem Snide “Where Have You Gone”

June 19, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week and we can’t let today pass without acknowledging the massive sense of relief after last night. Maybe the Reform guy is a better plumber than politician, although you […]
Album Reviews

American Aquarium “New Ways To Lose”

June 19, 2026 2
Twenty albums in and yet another hugely impressive release from American Aquarium. A look back through the Americana UK archives will find plenty of references to American Aquarium, including a very rare 10 out of 10 […]
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Shearwater return with “The New World” next month

June 19, 2026 0
Shearwater’s new album The New World will be released on 31st July 2026 via the band’s own Polyborus label in partnership with Secretly Distribution. In the past quarter-century, Shearwater slyly became a distinctive, consistent and adventurous […]

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Interviews

Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

June 18, 2026 0
Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]
Interviews

Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0
In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]
Interviews

Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

June 11, 2026 2
Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]

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Bill MacKay and Nathan Bowles “Keys”

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Mixed offering from guitarist and multi-instrumentalist. There’s a stark, parched air to the solemn opener on this lo-fi guitar pickers fest ‘Idumea’ is one of two spiritual covers and bears an uncanny resemblance to the Newton […]
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Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Dave Alvin “West of the West”

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Dave Alvin, who was born and raised in Downey, California, may well be the best songwriter to come out of the first generation southern California punk scene. The former Blaster is also one of the best […]
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Anniversary Cheers: Mary Gauthier’s “Drag Queens & Limousines” celebrates 25 years

November 20, 2024 2
The first article in a new occasional series that will take a look at significant anniversary re-releases of iconic albums as they are put out. Happy 25th anniversary to Mary Gauthier upon the re-release of her […]

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