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1 week ago | 
americana-uk.com | Mark Whitfield
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a new song by Canada’s Mariel Buckley who we have covered previously around these parts and whose latest single ‘Vending Machines’ marks the beginning of a new sonic and individual chapter. While familiar, darker instrumentation and themes are sprinkled throughout her new record, she shares: “I was itching to try something a little heavier than my previous stuff.
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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 track from a band we haven’t featured previously here on AUK but, you know, they never call, they never write. Wednesday are from North Carolina and include within their studio members the great MJ Lenderman, who we have featured on this site before many times.
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3 weeks ago | 
americana-uk.com | Mark Whitfield
Well, that’s it from us for another week, and we leave you dear reader with not one but two new songs from artists very dear to our hearts here in AUK Towers.
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4 weeks ago | 
americana-uk.com | Mark Whitfield
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader, and it’s good to be back after my Colombia travails although I do miss the feeling of being in a country governed by someone who feels vaguely relatable. You win some! We leave you this week with a new song by a band we haven’t featured for ages here on AUK – Lord Huron who have a new album out in July, more details next week.
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4 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 Brown Horse, Kassi Valazza, Dawn Brothers, Mike Delevante, The Waterboys with Steve Earle and Joshua Burnside – as always we trawl through the best Americana we’ve heard recently so you don’t have to.
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1 month 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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.
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2 months 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”.
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2 months 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.
