October 2022 – Page 18

Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy playing "You're No Alone" at the Loft Chicago, 2010

Classic Clips: Mavis Staples and Jeff Tweedy “You’re Not Alone” – The Loft, Chicago, 2010

October 14, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 0

Mavis Staples is one of American music’s national treasures. She is someone with both the voice and enthusiasm that if she sung the telephone directory, it would still sound wonderfully soulful and be utterly transfixing. Having […]

Only Child “Looking Forward To Looking Back – A Decade Of Only Child”

October 14, 2022 Tim Martin 0

A good primer for a Liverpool songwriter who combines message and music to great effect. As the title suggests this is 10 songs drawn from the four earlier albums, looking back over 10 years from Liverpool […]

Gold Dust “Proof Of Life”

October 14, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Are you ready to hear a song that has every chance of being the best thing you’ve hear all week? Gold Dust (aka Stephen Pierce) have a new album out called ‘The Late Great Gold Dust’ […]

Video: Serabee “Bayou Baby”

October 14, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

‘Bayou Baby’, the latest single from Serabee, has a fabulous groove that makes you want to move, dictated by strong percussion and pulsing bass. Layers of fluid keys and woozy pedal steel fill out the sound, […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Number 7 – Rhiannon Giddens “Freedom Highway” (2017)

October 13, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

On this second solo album Rhiannon Giddens realises all her potential first seen with the Carolina Chocolate Drops. By interpreting traditional songs and writing her own she shines an unforgiving light into the darkness of racial […]