Americana UK

  • News
  • Reviews
    • Album Reviews
    • Live Reviews
    • Book Reviews
  • Features
    • Archive
      • Americana Bedrock
      • Americana Roots
      • AmericanA to Z
      • A Night to Remember
      • Dirty Dozens
      • Home Life
      • I Write the Songs
      • Lost Albums
      • Political Pops
      • Shuffle
      • Small Venue Heroes
      • Studio Life
      • The Other Side of Me
      • The Twang Factor
      • Top 10 Americana Albums Ever
      • Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century
      • Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists
      • Unsung Heroes
      • Van Life
      • Whatever Happened To…
      • What Should I Do…
      • WITATA
    • Anniversary Cheers
    • AUK Mini-Gigs
    • Can’t Live with it, Can’t Live without it
    • Classic Americana Albums
    • Classic Clips
    • Essentials
    • For The Sake Of The Song
    • More People Really Should Know About
    • Obituaries
    • Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time
    • VERSIONS
  • Interviews
  • Videos
  • Tracks
  • Columns
    • Sounds from the Shed
    • Vox Continental
  • Podcast
  • Forum
  • Info
    • Contact Us!
    • Review submission FAQ
    • Support Americana UK
    • Want to write for Americana UK?
    • Daily Digest Sign-Up
    • Advertise on Americana UK
    • Privacy Policy
Our latest posts
  • [ March 24, 2026 ] The Montvales “Path Of Totality” Album Reviews
  • [ March 24, 2026 ] Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album News
  • [ March 24, 2026 ] Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie” Album Reviews
  • [ March 24, 2026 ] Tony Trischka And Billy Strings “Gentle On My Mind” – the ever calming balm of banjo News
  • [ March 24, 2026 ] Video Premiere: Dean Owens “Face The Storm (The Buffalo)” Videos
HomeAuthorsDavid Cowling

Articles by David Cowling

About David Cowling
Punk rock, Go-Betweens, REM, Replacments, Husker Du, Minutemen, Will Oldham, Smog, Whiskeytown, Ass Ponys but probably most of all Howe Gelb, led me on this journey.
Album Reviews

House Above The Sun “Five Hours North” (HATS Music, 2017)

November 6, 2017 David Cowling 0
HATS are a celebratory kind of a band; their music rings with the joy of making music, not the artistic struggle. The songs don’t sound like they were wrung from a tormented soul, more like they […]
Album Reviews

Charles Douglas “Statecraft – Expanded Edition” (Broken Horse, 2017)

November 2, 2017 David Cowling 0
I’m not going to spend much time reviewing the original Statecraft songs, it’s a record that I’d expect any self-respecting music fan to own. I know the songs inside out and expect you to too, but […]
Album Reviews

The Burning Hell “Revival Beach” (BB*ISLAND, 2017)

November 1, 2017 David Cowling 0
It’s the apocalypse, how did it happen? Well this portmanteau from the ever reliable Burning Hell approaches it (the end of the world as we know it) from multiple angles drawing out the humour, the tiny […]
Album Reviews

Sounding Arrow “Loving Is Breathing” (California Country, 2017)

October 31, 2017 David Cowling 0
These songs have a vibe that, if it sat up a little, would be horizontal, a blissed out California sun-kissed feeling. They (rather Scott Kinnebrew) are infected with an enthusiasm for the present and for the […]
Album Reviews

El Goodo “By Order of the Moose” (Strangetown Records, 2017)

October 30, 2017 David Cowling 0
With bands like El Goodo you have to buy into what they’re doing or not engage at all. They indulge in a glorious nostalgia for 1960’s music – the signifiers are all decades old, they’re not […]

Posts pagination

« 1 … 12 13 14 … 29 »

Recent Forum Posts

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Jerry Jeff Walker - Cowboy Boots and Bathin’ Suits

    By Joe Nathan , 13 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Jimmy Buffett - A1A

    By Joe Nathan , 16 hours ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Chris Knight - Chris Knight

    By Joe Nathan , 2 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Hurray for the Riff Raff - Live Forever

    By Joe Nathan , 3 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Old 97s - Too Far to Care

    By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    R.E.M. - New Adventures in Hi-Fi

    By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac

    By Joe Nathan , 4 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Wilco - summerteeth

    By Joe Nathan , 5 days ago

  • Joe Nathan

    RE: What are you listening to at the moment?

    Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun

    By Joe Nathan , 5 days ago

our latest posts

artwork for The Montvales album "Path Of Totality"

The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

Album Reviews
March 24, 2026 0

Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album

News
March 24, 2026 0
Art work for Andy Thomas album "Highway Junkie"

Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie”

Album Reviews
March 24, 2026 0

Tony Trischka And Billy Strings “Gentle On My Mind” – the ever calming balm of banjo

News
March 24, 2026 0

Video Premiere: Dean Owens “Face The Storm (The Buffalo)”

Videos
March 24, 2026 0
artwork for The Montvales album "Path Of Totality"
Album Reviews

The Montvales “Path Of Totality”

March 24, 2026 0
Folk-tinged harmonies and sophisticated indie-pop for turbulent times. Sally Buice and Molly Rochelson are originally from Knoxville, Tennessee – together they make up The Montvales. During their middle school years, the duo started out by busking […]
News

Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album

March 24, 2026 0
Pat Carter, singer/songwriter of acclaimed alt-country band Rodeo FM, and his partner in crime, Luis de Cicco, head man of hill country blues combo Caboose, will hit the road again in April 2026, promoting their new […]
Art work for Andy Thomas album "Highway Junkie"
Album Reviews

Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie”

March 24, 2026 0
A big-hearted, big guitar album that will leave a smile on your face. Andrew Thomas Trongone has chosen to record and release his debut album after a couple of years away from music, having realised he […]

  • The Montvales “Path Of Totality”
  • Pat Carter and Luis de Cicco hit the road to promote new live album
  • Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie”
  • Tony Trischka And Billy Strings “Gentle On My Mind” – the ever calming balm of banjo
  • Video Premiere: Dean Owens “Face The Storm (The Buffalo)”
  • 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”
Billy Bragg Bob Dylan Bruce Springsteen Chuck Prophet Courtney Marie Andrews Dean Owens Drive By Truckers Emmylou Harris Jason Isbell Johnny Cash John Prine Lucinda Williams Margo Price Neil Young Peter Bruntnell Robert Vincent Ryan Adams Steve Earle Sturgill Simpson The Band The Byrds The Delines Tom Petty Wilco Willie Nelson
  • Keith Hughes: Those were the days mid 2000’s. Marah killed it every night. Never cruised. Thanks to many SXSW trips and uk…
  • Mike Ritchie: The range of styles makes for an intriguing collection. One of the best releases of 2026 so far.
  • Paul Kerr: Andy's review is here... https://americana-uk.com/various-artists-i-will-swim-to-you-a-tribute-to-jason-molina

Latest interviews

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 […]

You may have missed…

Cover art for "Highwayman"
Features

For the Sake of the Song: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson “Highwayman”

June 17, 2024 8
In the mid-1980s, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash formed a supergroup, eventually known as The Highwaymen, recording and performing intermittently over a period of 10 years, during which time they released three […]
AUK's Chain Gang

AUK’s Chain Gang: The Everly Brothers “So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad)”

January 23, 2023 0
Handed the baton by Emily with Fleetwood Mac’s ‘Dreams’ to follow ‘Dream’ takes me to the Everly Brothers – but rather than pick their well-known song in the same vein ‘All I Have To Do is […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Neil Young “A Man Needs a Maid” – Live at the BBC, 1971

April 8, 2024 3
I first became enchanted by ‘A Man Needs A Maid’ when I heard a version of it on the 2007 Neil Young covers album ‘Borrowed Tunes II’. It’s a song of heartbreaking feeling as Young wrestles […]

© Americana UK 2026, a website based in the People's Republic of Liverpool