Graeme Tait

Cover art for Jay Buchanan album "Weapons Of Beauty"

Jay Buchanan “Weapons Of Beauty”

February 18, 2026 Graeme Tait 2

Debut solo album from Rival Sons’ frontman reflects his interest in roots-influenced songwriting, but frustratingly fails to add up to the sum of its parts. Jay Buchanan is best known as the lead vocalist for Grammy-nominated […]

Cover art for Julian Taylor's album "Anthology II"

Julian Taylor “Anthology II”

January 28, 2026 Graeme Tait 0

A second career retrospective album from the much-admired Canadian singer-songwriter helps complete his musical backstory, spanning over 25 years. With over 25 years in the music business under his belt, Julian Taylor has built an impeccable […]

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Graeme Tait

January 15, 2026 Graeme Tait 8

This new feature has now been running for approximately four months. During that time, I have simultaneously sympathised with my fellow writers at the magnitude of the challenge they have faced and marvelled at the array […]

Promo-photo of Paul Armer & the Dawn Chorus supplied by Paul Armer

AUK’s EP Round-Up – January 2026

January 14, 2026 Graeme Tait 2

Welcome back, dear readers, to the first ‘Monthly EPs Round-Up’ for 2026. Now, although we are already well into January, our selections this month comprise EPs released towards the end of last year that arrived on […]

Cover art to Jerry Jeff Walker album "The Best Of, The Millennium Collection"

For The Sake Of The Song: Jerry Jeff Walker “Mr Bojangles”

December 15, 2025 Graeme Tait 5

Ronald Clyde Crosby was born in 1942 in Oneonta, a small city in Otsego County, New York, but to you and me, and the rest of the musical world, he was better known as Jerry Jeff […]

Lance Cowan “The Air That You Breathe”

August 10, 2026 0

There is no slowing down Lance Cowan as he releases another fine set of story songs. Lance Cowan hails from West Kentucky. Songwriting and singing mark the third phase of his working life. Originally employed as […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 248 “Too much good stuff…”

August 10, 2026 0

Can you ever have too much of a good thing? It’s a question I asked myself whilst sifting through potential news stories for the site. There has been an avalanche of great stuff being announced in […]

Jim James “Wowed Out” – wow, wow, wow – unbelievable

August 10, 2026 2

We’re giving ourselves an easy start to the week – after the heatwave hell of the weekend we think we deserve it – by starting with a song by an artist we can confidently say “needs […]

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