Mark Whitfield

1 week ago | americana-uk.com | Mark Whitfield

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. In our Back Pages feature this week which Paul Kerr lovingly pulls together from time to time he referenced a bonus track on one of our old CD compilations by early-2000s Irish band The Thrills who on a quick search I cannot believe we’ve ever mentioned once in the last decade.

2 weeks ago | americana-uk.com | Mark Whitfield

Well that’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a new video from arguably the greatest singer-songwriter Australia has ever produced (with the possible exception of Barry Humphries). ‘Hello Melancholy, Hello Joy’ is taken from last year’s album “Fever Longing Still” which AUK’s Graeme Tait waxed lyrical about at the time of its release. As Paul notes, “It’s based on the memory game where you turn up cards to try and match pairs.

2 weeks ago | americana-uk.com | Mark Whitfield

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Alison Krauss & Union Station, Chris Eckman, Jade Turner, Sam Outlaw, Charley Crockett and Gary Louris among others – basically we trawl through the best Americana we’ve heard recently so you don’t have to.

3 weeks ago | americana-uk.com | Mark Whitfield

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. In the waning months of the previous millennia, Joe Pernice wrote and recorded what would become Chappaquiddick Skyline which New West Records have recently rereleased for the first time in 25 years via a limited edition pressing on vinyl – more details here. Chappaquiddick Skyline was released following the Pernice Brothers’ critically acclaimed Sub Pop debut “Overcome by Happiness”.

1 month ago | americana-uk.com | Mark Whitfield

Well that’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a song from the new album by Charley Crockett “Lonesome Drifter” which we glowingly reviewed earlier this week, saying that “This vibrant, confident and thoroughly engaging record may just be his best so far.” Pick of the crop for me is this tune which trundles along nicely before a banjo kicks in midpoint and the tempo moves up a notch, as always the video is a hoot too.