Tracks
Elvis Costello “Phonographic Memory” – Listen
Elvis Costello is….oh, we all know who Elvis Costello is (god damn it!). What we have here is a new track – the B side to the recently released ‘We Are All Cowards Now‘. ‘Phonographic Memory‘ […]
Year: 2020
Interviews
Interview: Jaime Wyatt the new queen of outlaw country
Jaime Wyatt started writing songs when she was four years old, and despite having a record contract as a teenager, she was in her early thirties when she released her first self-financed debut album which won […]
Features
AUK’s Chain Gang: Joshua Hedley “This Time”
Last week’s Chain Gang included a somewhat circuitous discussion of songs and albums titled ‘The Mountain’, resulting in Benjamin Tod’s version of the Steve Earle song of the same name.
Album Reviews
Mean Mary “Alone” (Woodrock Records, 2020)
The title of the new Mean Mary album says it all – ‘Alone’. It is Mary and her banjo. Or Mary and her guitar. OK, sometimes she combines the two into one instrument banjitar. Plain and […]
Features
Ten environmentally-aware Americana songs
The importance of the diversity of our ecology, and of environmental sustainability, are constant watchwords these days and every news bulletin seems to bring another warning that we need to take better care of this planet […]