Americana UK

Live Review: Midlake + The Bretheren, Electric Ballroom, London – 6th February 2026

February 20, 2026 0

It had been three long years since Midlake played in the UK, and so nothing – not the cold, not the rain, not the machinations of the UK’s public transport system – was going to prevent […]

Slim Dunlap at The Mad Riplle Hootenanny 27thNovember 2007

Anniversary Cheers: Slim Dunlap’s “Every Little Word” is a reissue of his two solo albums 30 years on, with added extras

February 20, 2026 0

Sadly deceased yet underrated ex-Replacements guitarist gets the full, beautifully packaged re-issue treatment with remastered solo albums and outtakes, demos and live recordings. Back in the late 1980s Paul Westerberg’s popular indie-rock band The Replacements had […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: BIRD

February 20, 2026 0

Janie Price aka BIRD is as much half-and-half as any dairy product you might stir into a coffee. Start with her given and aka names, then her half English, half Irish heritage, calling home in either […]

Chris Whitley from a 1990s benefit concert in New York City

Classic Clips: Chris Whitley “Big Sky Country” – Live At Les Nuis L’Emission, 29th February 1992

February 20, 2026 0

Once first heard, it’s never forgotten. Chris Whitley’s astonishing 1991 debut album ‘Living With The Law‘ was like nothing we’d heard for a long, long time. At a time of pretty bland music coming form the […]

Charley Crockett makes it a hat trick of albums in a year with “Age of the Ram”

February 20, 2026 0

Charley Crockett has announced the release of Age Of The Ram, which will come out on April 3rd and marks his third album in a year and his third full-length LP with GRAMMY® Award-winning co-producer Shooter […]

Anniversary Cheers
Anniversary Cheers: Slim Dunlap’s “Every Little Word” is a reissue of his two solo albums 30 years on, with added extras
Sadly deceased yet underrated ex-Replacements guitarist gets the full, beautifully packaged re-issue treatment with remastered solo albums and outtakes, demos and live recordings. Back in the late 1980s Paul Westerberg’s popular indie-rock band The Replacements [...]
AUK Mini-Gigs
Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: BIRD
Janie Price aka BIRD is as much half-and-half as any dairy product you might stir into a coffee. Start with her given and aka names, then her half English, half Irish heritage, calling home in [...]
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Chris Whitley “Big Sky Country” – Live At Les Nuis L’Emission, 29th February 1992
Once first heard, it’s never forgotten. Chris Whitley’s astonishing 1991 debut album ‘Living With The Law‘ was like nothing we’d heard for a long, long time. At a time of pretty bland music coming form [...]
Features
The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Peter Thompson
So what makes a song a credible candidate for the Top 10 Americana Song of All Time feature? The task of selecting the top 10 has been assigned to the AUK staff writers, but without [...]
Interviews
Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other
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 latest AUK podcast is available now featuring Katherine Priddy and Band of Heathens

February 20, 2026 0

Another busy week for Keith as he chats to the wonderful Katherine Priddy on the eve of the release of her new album These Frightening Machines and to Gordy Quist and Ed Jurdi from Band of […]

Awolk “Into The Void” – sometimes the void looks back

February 20, 2026 0

Canada’s Awolk has just released Wild Rose, a new six-track EP that introduces the next chapter of the project led by Jesse Thomas. Made with Toronto-based producer and engineer Eli Browning, the record captures a stripped-back […]

Video: Tenderness “The Salt Flats” – living in the moment of gentle panic

February 20, 2026 0

Check out the new single from Tenderness, the solo musical project of Katy Beth Young. Over the gently tuneful guitar, layered synths, Harry Bohay’s pedal steel and lightly insistent percussion, Young’s vocal performance on ‘The Salt […]

History of the Eagles tour, 2014, Bernie Leadon (second from left)

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Peter Thompson

February 19, 2026 5

So what makes a song a credible candidate for the Top 10 Americana Song of All Time feature? The task of selecting the top 10 has been assigned to the AUK staff writers, but without specific […]

Mapache’s Sam Blasucci unveils motherlode of tracks on new LP and EP

February 19, 2026 0

Ojai, CA-based singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Sam Blasucci has announced his fourth record and first double LP, Physical Dream, is due out April 17th. In addition to the LP, Blasucci will release an EP later this […]

Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “California Wasted”
February 20, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you with a new version of one of my favourite songs of all time from California’s Toad the Wet Sprocket. California Wasted originally appeared [...]
Awolk “Into The Void” – sometimes the void looks back
February 20, 2026 0
Canada’s Awolk has just released Wild Rose, a new six-track EP that introduces the next chapter of the project led by Jesse Thomas. Made with Toronto-based producer and engineer Eli Browning, the record captures a [...]
Video: Tenderness “The Salt Flats” – living in the moment of gentle panic
February 20, 2026 0
Check out the new single from Tenderness, the solo musical project of Katy Beth Young. Over the gently tuneful guitar, layered synths, Harry Bohay’s pedal steel and lightly insistent percussion, Young’s vocal performance on ‘The [...]
Folk Tracks Roundup – February 2026
February 19, 2026 0
What have we got this month that’s good in the world of folk song? There’s old songs done new ways, and there’s new songs done old ways. There’s the experimental, and there’s the discovery of [...]
Video Premiere: Sam Lewis “Chase The Moon”
February 19, 2026 0
Singer-songwriter Sam Lewis’s single ‘Chase The Moon’ begins with warm, ethereal tones, before it settles into sparsely arranged, intimate folk. Lewis’s voice drifts delicately over his acoustic notes while added texture is provided by Joe [...]

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