Andrew Raw

Robin Adams “The Beggar”

November 10, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Lo-fi folk reflecting dark times for the writer. “The Beggar” had its genesis as a collection of “quite rough and raw” demo recordings, released in 2018 on Bandcamp. Robin Adams then saw how the songs evolved […]

Josienne Clarke “Far From Nowhere”

October 13, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Sparse, still, lo-fi folk with beautiful and stirring vocals. “Far From Nowhere” is Josienne Clarke’s sixth album. She started in 2019 with “In All Weather” and her last album was 2024’s “Parenthesis, I”. “Far From Nowhere” […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Teenage Fanclub

October 1, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Teenage Fanclub were formed in Glasgow in 1989 by guitarists Norman Blake and Raymond McGinley, drummer Francis Macdonald and bassist Gerard Love. Blake, McGinlay and Macdonald had all initially been in the same band, the Boy […]

Woody Guthrie “Woody At Home- Vol 1+2”

September 26, 2025 Andrew Raw 1

These home recordings of previously unreleased songs, including some previously not recorded, are a great historical document. The story of this album starts when Woody Guthrie got his first publishing deal in 1950 with Howie Richmond’s […]

Album cover artwork for "ha ha, now i'm sad" by Cooper Kenward

Cooper Kenward “ha ha, now i’m sad”

September 17, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Words on the existential questions of life set to top-quality seventies pop with added country. “ha ha, now i’m sad” is LA-based Cooper Kenward’s third album after “Cooper Kenward” (2022) and “Dying in a Diner” (2024). […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Features

Whatever Happened to… Uncle Lucius

May 24, 2021 2

Not surprisingly, Uncle Lucius came out of Austin, Texas. They really couldn’t have come from anywhere else, given the sound of the band. Rooted in the old-time country, blues, and rock of Texas music, dripping with […]

Album Reviews

Jason Isbell And The 400 Unit “Weathervanes”

June 9, 2023 2

Epic ambition fully achieved on an album that is another classic to add to a catalogue already filled with great work. As the winner of our writers’ poll of Americana albums of the 21st Century and […]

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

June 6, 2022 0

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, […]

Articles by Andrew Raw

Robin Adams “The Beggar”

Josienne Clarke “Far From Nowhere”

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Teenage Fanclub

Woody Guthrie “Woody At Home- Vol 1+2”

Cooper Kenward “ha ha, now i’m sad”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”