Features
I Write the Songs: Felice & Boudleaux Bryant
Welcome to a new feature series where we take a look at some of the great songwriters who have made their names in Americana music. The focus of this series is on those that, at least […]
Month: January 2022
Album Reviews
Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Barn”
Reflections on aging, on the need to address environmental concerns and to recall that love matters. It is often the case with Neil Young’s recent new material releases that the thoughts on first contact are not […]
AUK's Chain Gang
AUK’s Chain Gang: Billy Bragg & Joe Henry “In the Pines”
From last week’s Chain Gang, Birds of Chicago, comes not one but two new links. The first one is avian, from ‘Birds’ to ‘Eagle,’ while the second remains the city of Chicago but more specifically, its […]
Album Reviews
Aoife O’Donovan “Age Of Apathy”
Enchanting folksy Celtic Americana. A charming, esoteric puzzle. In americana terms, Aoife O’Donovan is a big deal. A Grammy-winning big deal (as a third of ‘I’m With Her’, alongside Sara Watkins and Sarah Jarosz). So the […]
Tracks
Ben Sures “End Of The World” – pass those buns…
Canadian folk troubadour Ben Sures takes a wry look at the impending apocalypse – either a resurgence of the one we’re currently traversing or some other one nature, or humanity, can conjure up to replace it. […]