Features
10 great Americana Beatles’ covers
As most of our regular readers will know, AUK Towers is based in Liverpool, and while we have a pool of internationally based writers from all corners of the UK and beyond, Liverpool and its culture […]
Articles by Martin Johnson
Album Reviews
Tenci “My Heart Is An Open Field” (Keeled Scales, 2020)
Tenci is really bedroom folk artist Jess Shoman backed by more famous musicians from the Chicago music scene and their debut album is released on Austin label Keeled Scales. Jess Shoman spent nearly ten years writing […]
Album Reviews
Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real “Naked Garden” (Fantasy Records, 2020)
Last June’s ‘Turn Off The News (Build A Garden)’ was Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real’s eighth and most successful album – it was also their best to date. ‘Naked Garden’ is an album of […]
Features
AmericanA to Z: Asleep At The Wheel
The late ‘60s were a strange and interesting time so it shouldn’t be seen as too surprising that a Jewish Philadelphia born jazz fan, who had actually managed to shake John Coltrane’s hand, formed a Western […]
Features
Forgotten Artists – Willis Alan Ramsey
Willis Alan Ramsey was not only in at the start of the Austin music scene of the ‘70s but he was also one of the first of the new wave of singer-songwriters, subsequently tagged as progressive […]