Alasdair Fotheringham

Classic Clips: Catherine MacLellan “Sparrows” – Austin, Texas, March 18th 2010

September 30, 2022 Alasdair Fotheringham 3

Given Classic Clips has recently featured very-big-to-biggish-name artists like The Rolling Stones, Crosby and Nash and Mumford & Sons, it might be a surprise that next up is a performance of what was at the time […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Alasdair Fotheringham

August 11, 2022 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

If the truth be known, and no disrespect intended, it’s always struck me as a little odd to start a list of ‘Top 10… whatever’ by emphasising the purely personal nature of the choices and the […]

Artwork for Highlights of the Low Nights

James Edwyn & the Borrowed Band “Highlights of the Low Nights”

June 23, 2022 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

A record which singlehandedly destroys the cliché of the ‘difficult third album’, possibly forever. “Oh I just don’t know where to begin,” Elvis Costello once sang in the opening line of his classic New Wave hit […]

Ryan Law and the Shelter “Ryan Law and the Shelter”

June 7, 2022 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Hard hitting, big hearted, dynamic Southern-esque rock of the kind that never dates. One thing that strikes you instantly about Ryan Law and the Shelter’s second, eponymous, album is that they certainly know how to write […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: James McMurtry “Forgotten Coast”

June 6, 2022 Alasdair Fotheringham 1

Teal ducks aren’t just familiar to ornithologists and AUK Chain Gang readers since last week’s inclusion of Joan Shelley’s ‘Teal’ in the series by Darren Lumbroso. “For a big chunk of the year, the blue-winged teal, […]

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0

At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

August 7, 2026 0

A powerful message that’s relayed with the kind of vigour and skill needed to make people sit up and listen. “In his oval room, in his rockin’ chair / He’s the president, but I don’t care […]

Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012

August 7, 2026 1

Of all the recent musicians we have sadly lost in recent times, the tragic news of the passing of Raul Malo last year was one of the most gut-wrenching for me. He was only 60 years […]

Interviews

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

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Interviews

Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0

Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]

Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0

American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]

Features

Americana Bedrock – Linda Ronstadt

October 24, 2022 1

In introducing this new series, Features Editor Clint West said that “this series will explore some of the artists that have laid down the foundations of what we now refer to as ‘americana’”. I think one […]

Tracks

Viv & Riley “Is It All Over” – doesn’t have to be

August 1, 2023 1

Sometimes a song just comes to hand at exactly the right time, so this is just perfect for the moment when we see the current government backpedalling as fast as possible on Green commitments and the […]

Features

VERSIONS – “Senor (Tales Of Yankee Power)”

July 27, 2020 13

Here we are again with “VERSIONS” – our look at the songs, the performers and the interpretations by performers of the songs. This time around Martin Johnson casts his eye over over ‘Senor (Tales of Yankee […]

Articles by Alasdair Fotheringham

Classic Clips: Catherine MacLellan “Sparrows” – Austin, Texas, March 18th 2010

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Alasdair Fotheringham

James Edwyn & the Borrowed Band “Highlights of the Low Nights”

Ryan Law and the Shelter “Ryan Law and the Shelter”

AUK’s Chain Gang: James McMurtry “Forgotten Coast”

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012

The Wild High “Listen to The Wild High”

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