Lyndon Bolton

AUK’s Chain Gang: Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young “Ohio”

October 10, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

‘Sam Stone’ last week was a casualty of war. The returning hero fought his demons with a cocktail of booze and drugs that in the end finished him off just as he might have perished on […]

The Brother Brothers “Cover To Cover”

October 4, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

Sibling harmonies to “make an old song new”. After the wide acclaim for two releases of their own material bathed in warm harmonies blending folk, bluegrass and Appalachia, why would the Brother Brothers, of all people, […]

Mr Sam & The People People “People, People, People, People!”

September 27, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 0

Music to phone a friend to. If you ever feel your view on the world tends too far towards the cynical then a dose of Mr Sam & The People People could be the antidote. At […]

New feature – Americana Bedrock: The Allman Brothers Band

September 26, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 6

Features Editor Clint West writes: Welcome to a new fortnightly feature ‘Americana Bedrock’. The series will explore some of the artists that have laid down the foundations of what we now refer to as ‘americana’. AUK […]

The Other Side of Me: Lyndon Bolton tunes the Television to ‘Marquee Moon’

September 13, 2022 Lyndon Bolton 3

Unlike my multi-faceted fellow scribes I’ve never really been into an artist, far less an entire genre, long enough to qualify as a “side” completely independent of what can be traced quite easily to what we […]