AmericanA to Z
AmericanA to Z – The Replacements
I’ll admit to not knowing what is and isn’t Americana. If I thought it was cowboy boots and Southern charm, I’d not be here. What I think of as Americana is more than that, and you […]
Year: 2020
AUK Mini-Gigs
Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Ags Connolly
In these strange times when people around the world are literally living in isolation, we are trying to spread a little joy by asking some of our favourite acts to perform exclusive mini-gigs for the AUK […]
Features
AUK’s Chain Gang: Langhorne Slim “House of My Soul”
Last time the chain gang song was ‘The Rock of My Soul’ by Rodney Crowell. This week’s link is quite simply the word ‘soul’. This track: ‘House of My Soul‘ is taken from Langhorne Slim’s 2017 album […]
Album Reviews
Arik Dov “The Man” (Independent, 2020)
I saw a t-shirt once that said “there are too many bikes, said no one ever” and I thought that was funny. Not laugh out loud funny, but funny cos it’s true funny. I’d wear one […]
Album Reviews
Driftwood Soldier “Stay Ahead of the Wolf” (Bloodshot Records, 2019)
Describing themselves as “Gutterfolk for the masses” this duo from Pennsylvania may have created a new category of Americana. If by ‘Gutter’ they mean sticking up for the underdog, that looks right. And in its context […]