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Wilco perform new song “Tell Your Friends” – Watch

May 26, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

We’re slightly late to the party with this one but at the end of last week Wilco premiered new song ‘Tell Your Friends’ as a lockdown performance for The Late Show With Stephen Colbert. Each member […]

Features

AUK’s top 10 Americana albums ever: Clint West

May 18, 2020 Clint West 10

Welcome to a brand new feature. At AUK we are on a quest to find the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums Ever’. Over the coming weeks and months each AUK writer will in turn, present their own […]

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“What Is This Americana Thing Anyway…?” – Paul Villers

May 12, 2020 Paul Villers 1

Well we haven’t had a piece for a while (lots of things going on but people are staying safe, thankfully) so the ‘developer’ of this feature is going to put his own ten pence worth in. […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: Wilco “Passenger Side”

January 8, 2020 Mark Whitfield 1

So we begin our first full week back with a new feature here on AUK whereby we are starting our own kind of version of Radcliffe and Maconie’s The Chain, a never-ending list of americana songs […]

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The best gigs of 2019: a personal reflection

December 20, 2019 Clint West 0

“I think that live music is something that the internet can never kill”  – Jim James (My Morning Jacket).  In an age when we can access our favourite music in so many ways and so many […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 2

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Rainn Byrns “Big” – one mistake away from success

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Another slice of bedroom folk from Rainn Byrns in which he muses on missing out on success by not making the right move – or maybe any move – at the right time. Or any time.  […]

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Ma Polaine’s Great Decline “Molecules”

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West Country duo shine on captivating folk-blues album. Finding out the background to any artist is always illuminating and reading the publicity around this release, it was a joy to read that one of the main […]

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Chatham County Line “Station To Station” – Listen

February 10, 2020 1

No, this isn’t a cover of the Bowie song – we’d quite like to hear that, but it won’t be this time.  But things are being all shaken up in the Chatham County Line camp.  Firstly […]

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