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Video Premiere: Bern Kelly “Gotta Stay” (feat. Larissia Murphy)

February 1, 2022 Andrew Frolish 1

Nashville’s Bern Kelly follows up his well-received 2021 album ‘Fantastic stories!’ with a moody song of embattled love and worn relationships. Hope conflicts with desperation, highs are balanced by lows and relationships are sustained through perseverance […]

I Write the Songs: Felice & Boudleaux Bryant

January 31, 2022 Rick Bayles 3

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 […]

Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Barn”

January 31, 2022 Jonathan Aird 1

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: Billy Bragg & Joe Henry “In the Pines”

January 31, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

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 […]

Aoife O’Donovan “Age Of Apathy”

January 31, 2022 Mark Nenadic 3

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 […]

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

July 10, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place across 2 stages in Liverpool at the end of November and features Chuck Prophet and […]

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

July 10, 2026 0

Willy Vlautin is well known as the chief songwriter of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines, trading in beautifully written vignettes of the people who have generally fallen between the cracks of the American dream. These dark […]

Emmylou Harris, Mumford and Sons and Jerry Douglas

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

July 10, 2026 0

The evening before San Francisco’s 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival the Masonic Auditorium hosted a tribute concert to Emmylou Harris, the only artist to have graced the festival stages for each of its 25 years. During […]

Year: 2022

Video Premiere: Bern Kelly “Gotta Stay” (feat. Larissia Murphy)

I Write the Songs: Felice & Boudleaux Bryant

Neil Young & Crazy Horse “Barn”

AUK’s Chain Gang: Billy Bragg & Joe Henry “In the Pines”

Aoife O’Donovan “Age Of Apathy”

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

Les Thomas “I Remember Everything”

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring author and journalist Liz Thomson