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Taylor Swift announces The Eras Tour UK dates for 2024

June 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

We have featured Taylor Swift around these parts from time to time in recent years due to her original country leanings which morphed for some recent albums into the kind of indie-folk we often kill for […]

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Record Store Day 2023 – an AUK guide

April 18, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

It’s that time again when the format fiends get excited about queueing at 5 am (or earlier) to be among the few to own this year’s exclusively released records. Record Store Day started in 2007 and […]

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UK Americana Awards 2022 nominations announced

November 17, 2021 Emily Dongray 0

The annual AMA-UK Music Week is once again taking place in London this coming January 23-27th. The three-day multi-venue festival will showcase over 70 artists from the UK, Europe, America, and Canada and includes talks, industry […]

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Tracks

Haim featuring Taylor Swift “Gasoline” – Listen

February 19, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Folk-rock trio Haim and Taylor Swift collaborated towards the end of last year on the latter’s track ‘No Body, No Crime’ from her hugely successful lo-fi with country leanings ‘Evermore’ album, and Haim have today released […]

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Something for the weekend: Taylor Swift and Haim “No Body, No Crime”

December 11, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader, a week which felt like the good old times, talking about Brexit again instead of Covid. If you feel like burying your head in the sand for, say, […]

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Ruston Kelly

Something for the weekend: Ruston Kelly “Belly of the Beast”

Tracks
December 1, 2023 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. If you’re an AUK supporter, your new playlist will be winging its way to you at 5pm tonight, along with our exclusive “The Best Americana [...]

Jingle Bells Friday – only twenty four sleeps to go

Features
December 1, 2023 0
Oh no – it’s actually December!  How did that happen?  Well, the same way that it always happens – Christmas and the annual festivities around a week off from Americana UK always seems so far [...]
Album Reviews

Our Man In The Field “Gold On The Horizon”

December 1, 2023 0
Highly anticipated sophomore album delivers on all the promise of their debut. It is now over three years since Our Man In The Field’s debut album ‘Company Of Strangers’, created such a positive impact both [...]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Emmylou Harris “(You Never Can Tell) C’est La Vie”, Old Grey Whistle Test 1977

December 1, 2023 3
In 1977 Emmylou Harris was at the first of many high points in her career. ‘Luxury Liner’ had come out the previous year and work had started on ‘Quarter Moon in a Ten Cent Town’. [...]
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It’s the 2023 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year

December 1, 2023 0
Now with just six categories – why take two bottles into the shower when you can just vote and go? So it’s that time of year again when we launch our annual readers poll in [...]
  • Something for the weekend: Ruston Kelly “Belly of the Beast”
  • Jingle Bells Friday – only twenty four sleeps to go
  • Our Man In The Field “Gold On The Horizon”
  • Classic Clips: Emmylou Harris “(You Never Can Tell) C’est La Vie”, Old Grey Whistle Test 1977
  • It’s the 2023 AUK Readers Poll! Vote for your favourite americana from the last year
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Interviews

Interview: Louis Michot on why it has taken over 20 years to release a solo album

November 28, 2023 0

Louis Michot reveals himself to be more than simply a purveyor of Louisiana music. As a member of the Grammy award-winning Lost Bayou Ramblers and Michot’s Melody Makers singer-songwriter and fiddle player Louis Michot has released […]

Interviews

Interview: Danny O’Keefe on making circular turns and having a good time

November 21, 2023 2

Still writing new songs in his ninth decade and celebrating his catalogue. Singer-songwriters write songs, and that is exactly what Danny O’Keefe has been doing all his working life, and he is still doing it in […]

Interviews

Interview: Corey Ledet on helping preserve the Louisiana dialect Kouri-Vini through songwriting

November 14, 2023 0

Why language and culture enhance the authenticity of music. Corey Ledet is one of the leading Creole and zydeco musicians of his generation, with a Grammy nomination to prove it, and an Americana UK favourite. With […]

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Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

July 13, 2023 46

As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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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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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Martin Johnson

August 31, 2023 27

How does anyone go about determining the top ten americana artists ever, and once you’ve worked that one out, how do you rank them in a meaningful way? These are the legitimate questions facing Americana UK […]

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Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

July 8, 2021 25

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 […]

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