Tom Ovans

Artwork for Tom Ovans album "Crows in the Corn"

Tom Ovans “Crows in the Corn”

January 11, 2021 Richard Phillips 2

Anger, cynicism and plenty of melancholy leavened by precious rays of honest truth that will take more than hard times to obscure With his fourteenth album and first release in six years, Ovans presents us […]

Max Garćia Conover “Deer”

May 25, 2022 0

Poetic reflections on life and death. Describing Max Garćia Conover as “the king of silent” the promo commentary offers an intriguing contrast to an album that on the first couple of listens sounds like a […]

James Combs “Falling Under Spells”

May 25, 2022 0

Byrds and Beatles influenced folk-pop filtered through 21st Century americana with ambient textures. James Combs has featured in numerous Americana UK pieces over the years as a member of the LA band Great Willow and […]

James Kahn “By The Risin’ Of The Sea”

May 24, 2022 0

Southern Californian Renaissance man James Kahn’s album of sea shanties takes on global existential crises as its theme. Sea shanties have been in vogue off and on over the years, even in the days before […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 0

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 […]

News

Introducing ‘The Twang Factor’ – AUK’s showcase for new artists

September 17, 2020 2

Another reminder about this one everyone! At AUK we are firm believers in supporting new talent, especially in the current difficult environment. We are therefore putting our money where our mouth is by introducing ‘The […]

Features

This website kills fascists – Vote for hope today

December 12, 2019 16

Today dear reader is one of the most important days for this country that we’ve faced in decades, certainly since 1979. I wrote a piece a couple of years ago on the day of 2017’s […]

Classic Americana Albums: The Hacienda Brothers “The Hacienda Brothers”

Classic Americana Albums

May 25, 2022 1

There are many reasons to suggest an album has classic status, sometimes it’s an album with iconic status, by an internationally acclaimed artist, sometimes it’s an album that seems to encapsulate much of what we […]

In Liverpool on Saturday? Come and join us for an early evening AUK house gig!

News

May 25, 2022 0

Many moons ago Americana UK Towers in a kind of leafy suburb in South Liverpool used to put on regular house gigs until one day they listed one in the Metro and the house almost […]

Robert Plant & Alison Krauss “Go Your Way” – We part, and I’m OK with that

Tracks

May 25, 2022 0

So, the golden god and the goddess of Bluegrass – and this single is taken from the pair’s second album ‘Raise the Roof‘ which we note has sold an impressive 150,000 copies. And there’s also […]

Video: Martha Wainwright “Dinner at 8”

Videos

May 25, 2022 0

Shot in black and white at a live show in front of an intimate audience that appears to be no more than a dozen or so fans, Martha Wainwright’s new video for ‘Dinner at 8’ […]