Alasdair Fotheringham

Susan Cattaneo “All Is Quiet”

April 25, 2022 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

Lifts the ‘pandemic’ genre of music to fresh, inspirational heights. COVID-19 came roaring back into the British mainstream media last week courtesy of the police fine received by Boris Johnson for his (and we’re probably being […]

How I Write A Song: Paul Kelly

December 2, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 1

As part of our occasional series of How I Write A Song as his new Christmas album comes out, AUK talked to one of Australia’s best-known singer-songwriters, Paul Kelly. Paul Kelly’s career now spans five decades […]

Classic Americana Albums: John Moreland “Big Bad Luv”

November 17, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

“It’s no use, God bless these blues, let’s get wrecked and bruised and battered,” is just one of John Moreland’s more ‘cheerful’ reflections on his ‘Big Bad Luv’ album about how he has finally found an […]

Frank Richard “Rough Enough”

November 15, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 2

Long overdue addition to top-grade Americana, but well worth the wait. When a US singer-songwriter with enough mileage on his clock to have been arrested at an anti-Vietnam demonstration and received his first guitar lesson from […]

Essentials: The top 10 Hayes Carll songs

October 28, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 1

According to an article on savingcountrymusic.com, back in the early noughties Houston-born singer-songwriter Hayes Carll was hailed as a potential successor of Townes Van Zandt “in Texas and beyond.” And now, twenty years on, some of […]