Features
AUK’s Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Tim Martin
So, the brief is to pick 10, and only 10, artists that are in my view the greatest ever… Big ask. Having whittled my list down to about 40, and with an hour to go before […]
The Byrds
Essentials
Essentials: The Top 10 Byrds songs
Even the most casual followers of americana are aware of the importance The Byrds had on the genre, even though formally they released ‘only’ 12 official albums. And among those, even the weaker ones, like ‘Dr. […]
Obituaries
The Song Remains: David Crosby (1941 – 2023)
The death of David Crosby, who passed on the 19th of January, was hardly unanticipated – it’s not just that he was 81, but he had been saying in interviews “how am I still alive?” as […]
Tracks
David Crosby – Remembering His Name
There will of course be a proper obituary coming, but it seems like there should be an acknowledgement right now of the passing of David Crosby. The most cantankerous and argumentative man in rock? Well, he […]
Americana Bedrock
Americana Bedrock – The Byrds
Our focus with this new feature is to look at the artists who have helped lay the foundations and pave the way for the emergence of the musical genre we know today as ‘americana’. Now there […]