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AUK’s Chain Gang: Wilco “Via Chicago”

July 27, 2020 Diccon Johnston 0

The previous Chain Gang offering was Dale Watson’s ‘Tucumcari Here I Come’ which required a search to learn was on ‘More Songs of Route 66: Roadside Attractions’. The choices available to link to songs relating to […]

Robert Francis and The End Times “Vol. 1” (Aeronaut Records, 2020)

July 24, 2020 Diccon Johnston 0

‘Vol. 1’ is a curious title for an album by an artist with such a long track record, giving fair warning that there is a new avenue that Robert Francis is going to explore. With the […]

Jenny Reynolds “Any Kind of Angel” (PrettyOkay, 2020)

July 6, 2020 Diccon Johnston 0

Jenny Reynolds relocated from New England to Texas in 2003. This is her fourth release and it affirms her status as an integral part of the Austin music scene. Her latest work sits effortlessly within the […]

Tomo “Wayward Son” (Independent, 2020)

June 22, 2020 Diccon Johnston 0

‘Wayward Son’ is the first independent release EP from Tomo, a Bristol-based indie-folk songwriter. It was all recorded and produced by Tomo at his parents’ house in Somerset. There are no trivial topics explored in this […]

Frank Turner “Live In Newcastle” (Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records, 2020)

June 3, 2020 Diccon Johnston 1

Frank Turner operates in that most ambiguous of roles, the singer-songwriter, with his output being classified variously from punk to folk. This live-work reveals that this is not entirely accurate, he is foremost an entertainer – […]

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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 […]

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Amanda Rheaume announces Jan/Feb UK tour

December 15, 2016 0

Canadian singer-songwriter Amanda Rheaume has announced January-February UK tour in support of her new album Holding Patterns, produced by Ottawa singer-songwriter Jim Bryson, which features tracks such as ‘The Day the Mountain Fell’, a true story […]

Album Reviews

Coyle Girelli “Out of This Town”

October 20, 2025 0

Mutual respect and a classy collaboration. The gist – it has been more than ten years since Coyle Girelli co-wrote with country singer/songwriter Mac Davis. Davis wrote two of Presley’s biggest hits, ‘In the Ghetto’ and […]

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10th anniversary reimagining for Sunny Sweeney’s “Provoked” and UK tour announced

July 30, 2024 1

Sunny Sweeney, the country and americana singer-songwriter, who hails from Texas but is currently based in Nashville, is no stranger to music fans this side of the Atlantic. Since the impact of her debut in 2006 […]

Articles by Diccon Johnston

AUK’s Chain Gang: Wilco “Via Chicago”

Robert Francis and The End Times “Vol. 1” (Aeronaut Records, 2020)

Jenny Reynolds “Any Kind of Angel” (PrettyOkay, 2020)

Tomo “Wayward Son” (Independent, 2020)

Frank Turner “Live In Newcastle” (Xtra Mile Recordings/Polydor Records, 2020)

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”