Jonathan Smith

Jake Ybarra “Something In The Water”

April 14, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

Debut album full of polished songwriting gems. Jake Ybarra (pronounced e-Bar-a) is a singer-songwriter hailing originally from Greenville, South Carolina. His 4 track EP ‘Basement Songs’ came out in 2020, and saw him quickly gathering a following, […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Lyle Lovett Albums

March 30, 2023 Jonathan Smith 1

Lyle Lovett emerged onto the country scene in the mid 80’s, around the same time as several other major talents – Nanci Griffith, Steve Earle, Mary Chapin Carpenter and his close friend Robert Earl Keen jnr, […]

Classic Clip: First Aid Kit “Emmylou” – Live at the Polar Music Awards, 2015

March 17, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

Emmylou Harris was in Stockholm in 2015, as the latest recipient for the Polar Music Prize, instigated by Stig Anderson, manager and collaborator with ABBA. That alone was a high achievement, placing her in a pantheon […]

Dari Bay “Longest Day of the Year”

March 1, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

Instantly memorable pop grunge Americana mix. Dari Bay is a project built by Vermont resident Zachary James. He cites broad influences ranging from Neil Young to Scottish Indie band The Pastels, Pavement to Wilco. “Longest Day […]

Chris Coole “The Old Man and the C Chord”

February 6, 2023 Jonathan Smith 0

Canadian bluegrass virtuoso brings songs as well as style. ‘The Old Man and the C Chord’ represents the third solo offering from Chris Cooley, although he has been part of a much wider musical scene over thirty […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

Furlined “Kill Devil Hills”

November 11, 2024 0

Impressive re-emergence of quality UK Americana Band. Furlined were formed back in 2013 by Bristol singer-songwriter Neil Crossley (that’s Bristol in the UK, not any of its American variants). After two well-received albums, Crossley sidelined the […]

Videos

Something for the weekend: Will Hoge “John Prine’s Cadillac”

July 15, 2022 0

That’s it for another week dear reader. Our AUK podcast returns today after an unavoidable absence for a few weeks – why not take AUK jogging/kayaking/bungie-jumping with you. You can check it out here. In the […]

Album Reviews

Madi Diaz “Fatal Optimist”

October 9, 2025 0

Diaz’s final chapter to the heartache trilogy proves to be her rawest and starkest yet. Madi Diaz’s latest offering, “Fatal Optimist”, is a rapid follow-up to last year’s two-time Grammy-nominated album “Weird Faith”. Having initially entered […]

Articles by Jonathan Smith

Jake Ybarra “Something In The Water”

Essentials: The Top 10 Lyle Lovett Albums

Classic Clip: First Aid Kit “Emmylou” – Live at the Polar Music Awards, 2015

Dari Bay “Longest Day of the Year”

Chris Coole “The Old Man and the C Chord”

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”