Andrew Frolish

Video: Danny Burns & Steve Earle “Mercenary Song”

January 24, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is a brilliant, upbeat, foot-tapping song from Danny Burns. It’s taken from his 2021 EP ‘Hurricane’ which featured a host of outstanding artists, including Sam Bush, Jerry Douglas and Sarah Jarosz. For ‘Mercenary Song’, Burns […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Eddie Berman

January 21, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

For most of us, the last couple of years have been somewhat bleak and we music-lovers have missed our regular diet of live shows. At AUK, we’ve tried to ease the loss by posting intimate, exclusive […]

Video: Balsamo, Collins, Riley “Turn This Thing Around”

January 21, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

During the first lockdown, Pete Riley, Steve Balsamo and Andy Collins began a series of regular Zoom meetings. Over time, these meetings became an outlet for their creativity as Collins explains: “Originally we started these sessions […]

Video Premiere: Jim Keaveny “Golden Carmen”

January 20, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

At the age of nineteen, Jim Keaveny set off travelling around the USA, hitch-hiking, hopping on and off freight trains, playing guitar and harmonica and finding his voice as a song-writer. Keaveny remembers these times fondly: […]

Video Premiere: Erinn Peet Lukes “Country Music Breaks My Heart”

January 19, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Nashville-based Erinn Peet Lukes shows how heartache and heartbreak can make you want to move. With a grooving bassline and an upbeat vibe, Lukes aims to get you up and dancing and she shows the way […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

July 2, 2026 0

It would be strange to start things off by actually introducing Lucinda Williams, so let’s begin with a justification instead: Williams has been at it since her 1979 debut Ramblin’ Woman, though she only truly broke […]

artwork for Adam Beattie album "Home Fires Burning"

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

July 2, 2026 0

The hero’s journey echoed in the experiences of an everyman. It might be an exaggeration to say there are as many types of songwriters as there are songwriters, but then again, it might not. As well […]

Book Review: Amy Speace “To The Performer, The Singer–Songwriter’s Handbook”

July 2, 2026 0

Amy Speace is a long-standing favourite of Americana UK, her most recent album, The Blue Rock Session, appearing late in 2025, a stripped-back collection on acoustic guitar and piano, recorded at a writing retreat in Wimberley, […]

Articles by Andrew Frolish

Video: Danny Burns & Steve Earle “Mercenary Song”

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Eddie Berman

Video: Balsamo, Collins, Riley “Turn This Thing Around”

Video Premiere: Jim Keaveny “Golden Carmen”

Video Premiere: Erinn Peet Lukes “Country Music Breaks My Heart”

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

Book Review: Amy Speace “To The Performer, The Singer–Songwriter’s Handbook”

Juana Everett “Past Lives in California”

Billy Strings to release latest album “So Much For Goodbyes” on 28th August