August 2022 – Page 25

Video: Todd Snider “Just Like Old Times” (Live)

August 8, 2022 Mark Whitfield 1

Todd Snider who we’ve covered a fair bit here on AUK over the years has announced a new album ‘Live: Return of the Storyteller’, a collection of tracks recorded during the singer’s first post-pandemic shows in […]

Joe Pug “Nation of Heat: Revisited”

August 8, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

Revamp, Recycle and Reimagine. Joe Pug is one of those names you might have heard but never really paid much attention to; on the strength of this album, that would be to your detriment. Fifteen years […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Old Crow Medicine Show “Wagon Wheel”

August 8, 2022 Mark Whitfield 1

Last week’s chain featured Austin’s Asleep At The Wheel who put their own spin in the nineties on Tex Williams’ ‘Smoke! Smoke! Smoke! (That Cigarette)’. Which lead me on to thinking about country songs which feature […]

Artwork for Steve Dawson & The Telescope 3 album "Phantom Threshold"

Steve Dawson and The Telescope Three “Phantom Threshold”

August 8, 2022 Ian Kennedy 0

Pedal steel driven cowboy western instrumental album adventure. ‘Phantom Threshold’ is the second of three albums being released in 2022 by Dawson and his collection of musicians. The first album, ‘Gone Long Gone’ was released earlier […]

Eliza Carthy “The Snow It Melts The Soonest” – from new album

August 8, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

There’s no-one like Eliza Carthy, what a singer and musician and what an innovative reshaper of traditional songs. Is it fair to say the reigning queen of English folk? Yeah, why not. Celebrating thirty years as […]

Sonny Rollins
Jazz titan Sonny Rollins has gone at the age of 95. Cle...
By Martin Johnson , 58 minutes ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
By Ian C Rothery , 1 week ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 2 weeks ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Liz stringer ‘ first time really feeling’Melbourne song...
By fredhead , 2 weeks ago
RE: Versions!
@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
By Martin Johnson , 2 weeks ago
RE: What are you watching at the moment?
Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
By Paul Villers , 2 weeks ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
By Peter Thompson , 2 weeks ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
Amy Grant The 6th of January (Yasgur’s Farm): time for ...
By Jonathan Hincks , 3 weeks ago
RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
By Peter Thompson , 3 weeks ago

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 2

Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

May 26, 2026 0

A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities. Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, […]

For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

May 26, 2026 0

This song is on Sheryl Crow’s Wildflower album, released in 2005 to lukewarm critical response. It was a low-key collection of songs – no All I Wanna Do or Soak Up the Sun among them – […]

Interviews

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 2

Interviews

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2

Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

Album Reviews

The Brother Brothers “Tugboats EP” (Independent, 2016)

April 7, 2017 0

The Brother Brothers are in fact the identical Moss brother twins, Adam and David, and I should perhaps beg forgiveness from Adam and David now if I mix them up at any stage in this review. […]

Album Reviews

Lynn Miles “We’ll Look For Stars” (Independent, 2020)

July 22, 2020 0

‘We’ll Look For Stars’ is the 15th album from Canadian singer-songwriter Lynn Miles, who featured last month in our ‘Forgotten Artists’ feature. Perhaps overlooked rather than forgotten, as our writer suggested, this album demonstrates again what […]

Album Reviews

Madi Diaz “Fatal Optimist”

October 9, 2025 0

Diaz’s final chapter to the heartache trilogy proves to be her rawest and starkest yet. Madi Diaz’s latest offering, “Fatal Optimist”, is a rapid follow-up to last year’s two-time Grammy-nominated album “Weird Faith”. Having initially entered […]

Month: August 2022

Video: Todd Snider “Just Like Old Times” (Live)

Joe Pug “Nation of Heat: Revisited”

AUK’s Chain Gang: Old Crow Medicine Show “Wagon Wheel”

Steve Dawson and The Telescope Three “Phantom Threshold”

Eliza Carthy “The Snow It Melts The Soonest” – from new album

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones”

Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson