Steve Wynn

The Gordon Sharpe Americana Book Award 2024

January 10, 2025 Tim Martin 0

This is the second year of our tribute to our late colleague Gordon Sharpe. We felt that an award which recognised the cream of the new books we’ve reviewed over the previous year was a fitting […]

The Americana Spirit of 24: Tim Martin

December 11, 2024 Tim Martin 0

From genre stretching to jangle, by way of Portsmouth, AUK’s Books Editor Tim Martin shared his pick of the Americana crop for 2024. I read back over my 2023 review of the year to remind myself […]

Book Review: Steve Wynn “I Wouldn’t Say It If It Wasn’t True”

September 26, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

This new book, the first from Steve Wynn, is subtitled “A memoir of Life, Music, and the Dream Syndicate,” and predominantly covers Steve Wynn’s early life and the first line-ups of the Dream Syndicate. It turns […]

Interview: Steve Wynn on why he wouldn’t say it if it wasn’t true

September 3, 2024 Martin Johnson 0

He will always be Steve Wynn but doesn’t intend to repeat past achievements. Steve Wynn maybe 64, but that doesn’t mean he has lost the drive and energy that drove the 21 year old music obsessive […]

Steve Wynn returns to the UK and announces new album and book

August 15, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Steve Wynn, leader of The Dream Syndicate, founding member of The Baseball Project and solo artist, has announced a UK tour – themed as A Night Of Songs And Stories in support of the release of […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

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