The Turnpike Troubadours

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Davidson

March 19, 2026 Andy Davidson 2

This is the final AUK writers’ choice of Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time. Watch out for the countdown to the song voted Number 1, coming shortly. I finalised this feature knowing Moses had left […]

Americana Music Association announces nominees for 23rd Annual Honours and Awards

May 9, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The AMAUK awards take place here in January each year but over in the US, the (not UK) Americana Music Association (AMA) has announced the nominees for their 23rd Annual Americana Honours & Awards. The awards […]

AUK’s Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Andy Davidson

September 15, 2023 Andy Davidson 3

Seesh, what a brief. It’s those two words greatest and ever. I do feel lacking in the evolutionary knowledge required to do this feature justice. Previous contributors have already cited some big heavyweights of the genre […]

Americana One Two Three… (er, Eleven)

September 5, 2023 Andy Davidson 0

And then way beyond… as Andy Davidson picks up the implied challenge and heads from eleven to twenty, making choices in a slightly different way, but these are all prime picks and the Count would approve, […]

Turnpike Troubadours "Diamonds & Gasoline"

Classic Americana Albums: Turnpike Troubadours “Diamonds and Gasoline”

March 29, 2023 Andy Davidson 4

There’s a growing expectation that the Turnpike Troubadours are going to release a new album soon. It has certainly been a while since ‘A Long Way From Your Heart’ in 2017. Long before the band’s reboot, […]

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