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AUK Chain Gang: Flatt & Scruggs “Iron Curtain”

June 1, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
When Keith Hargreaves steps out of his shed of an evening and looks up, what does he see?  Stars.  There are a lot of stars, the greatest number inhabit the Main Sequence – they are your […]
Book Reviews

Book Review – Jonathan Taplin “The Magic Years: Scenes From a Rock-and-Roll Life”

June 1, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0
A book that asserts music’s power to bring change. Former A-list road manager, movie producer, investment banker, professor, technological inventor, and writer, Jonathan Taplin’s memoir tells you more about his life and times than about the […]
Tracks

Ian George “Post-Corona” – Tongue in cheek art-folk listening

June 1, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
A song looking to the near future, a world where we can get back to normal – and there’s a lot to decide not to do in those time, and the first priority as Ian George […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Zoe Fitzgerald Carter “Below the Waterline”

June 1, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
We are drawn into ‘Below the Waterline’ by Zoe Fitzgerald Carter’s lovely vocal melody and the narrative details that tell a story in song.  That story is familiar to many: a memory of young love that […]
Tracks

Something for the weekend: Bob Dylan “Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands”

May 28, 2021 Mark Whitfield 1
Well that’s it for this week dear reader – amazingly it looks like we might actually get some sunshine for the bank holiday weekend, although as always with our weather don’t put a bet on it […]

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Classic Clips: Joni Mitchell “Coyote”, Gordon Lightfoot’s home, 1975

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Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Joni Mitchell “Coyote”, Gordon Lightfoot’s home, 1975

July 3, 2026 1
No doubt some really clued up expert on the Rolling Thunder Revue can pinpoint the actual evening that this clip comes from, but enough to say that it is footage captured whilst Joni Mitchell was on […]
Cover art for Fruit Bats album The Landfill
Album Reviews

Fruit Bats “The Landfill”

July 3, 2026 0
After a gap of a mere nine months, Eric D. Johnson returns with a new Fruit Bats offering – the americana world should rejoice. We really need to get something out of the way immediately. The […]
Columns

Hell in a Handcart – making a profit for “The Man”

July 3, 2026 0
“In a time of universal deceit telling the truth is a revolutionary act” – George Orwell “Well I woke up this morning…” as legendary blues numbers are won’t to have it. Normally my next line would […]

  • Classic Clips: Joni Mitchell “Coyote”, Gordon Lightfoot’s home, 1975
  • Fruit Bats “The Landfill”
  • Hell in a Handcart – making a profit for “The Man”
  • Elizabeth Cook announces new album and narrative film
  • Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Jim Walker of Brighthelmstone Promotions
  • Eric Andersen “Stand Up And Resist” – what will you risk?
  • Video: Our Man in the Field “Wall of Sound” – a chance encounter with an Arkansas truck driver
  • Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never
  • Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads
  • Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”
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Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0
It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]
Interviews

Interview: Jeff Finlin – the hero who journeys among us

July 1, 2026 0
In 2023, an AUK writer displayed exquisite taste by naming Jeff Finlin as one of the top ten greatest americana artists of all time. Congrats to Jeff, as well as, after all, he did record the […]
Interviews

Interview: Matt Patershuk writes songs for the small moments we all share

June 24, 2026 1
As an animal lover and caretaker of horses, dogs and cats, the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Patershuk certainly caught my attention. Dog Tiger Horses on Red Hen Records (2025) is green as grass, country-folk […]

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Album Reviews

Todd Snider “Eastside Bulldog” (Thirty Tigers, 2016)

November 7, 2016 0
Apparently, Todd Snider has a doppelgänger, an East Nashville musical hooligan who goes by the name of Elmo Buzz and who has three rules on playing music. 1. “Play the bones of some Fifties or Sixties-sounding […]
Tracks

Gareth Inkster “Used To It” – Listen

March 3, 2020 0
Gareth Inkster isn’t lucky in love  – we don’t know if he’s lucky at cards, but there’s a suggestion from ‘Used to it‘ that he’s lucky at pulling a song out of an emotionally bad situation. 
Videos

Video Premiere: Kiss the Tiger “I Miss You”

May 13, 2021 0
Beautifully animated by Eleonore Dendy, here is the brand new video from Minneapolis band Kiss the Tiger. The video complements the song, depicting a mother whose child has moved on, leaving behind an ’empty nest’. Lyrically, […]

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