Columns
AUK Back Pages No. 20
It’s time (almost) to light the candles on the cake and sing Happy Birthday to Americana UK as we enter our 10th year in 2011. In reality, AUK celebrated this anniversary much later in the year, […]
Articles by Paul Kerr
Reviews
AUK Shortcuts: We Met In June, The Thumping Tommys, Lost Post, John Jenkins, Jesca Hoop, Good News Now We Can Eat All The Vampires, Jacob Faurholt, Luba Dvorak and The Men From Nowhere
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently, which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites, […]
Features
More People Really Should Know About: Steve Dawson
Most folk reading this will probably be most familiar with Canadian Steve Dawson due to his tenure with the Birds of Chicago as guitarist/steel player on several of their tours over here in the UK. Dawson […]
Album Reviews
Neal Casal “No One Above You (The Early Years 1991-1998)”
A bit of a treasure trove from Neal Casal’s formative years. In the wake of Neal Casal’s untimely and tragic death, the Neal Casal Music Foundation, a non-profit organisation which provides musical instruments and lessons to […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: Rob Miller “The Hours Are Long But The Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music”
A hugely entertaining account of Chicago’s Bloodshot Records. An independent label that was “too rock for country, and too country for punk.” Bloodshot Records was one of the pioneering labels when Alt/Insurgent Country became a thing […]