Columns
AUK’s Back Pages No.6
It’s the middle months of 2006 we revisit here. The shiny new website is pretty much unchanged as is the format of the CDs sent out to those Friends of Americana UK who subscribe. News wise […]
Articles by Paul Kerr
Interviews
Interview: Americana UK’s Twang Factor winner Anton O’Donnell, a true troubadour
Anton O’Donnell spills the beans on hooking up with his American-based label and on the joys of being a true roving troubadour. Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Anton O’Donnell was the winner of AUK’s first ever Twang Factor back […]
Book Reviews
Book Review: Robyn Hitchcock “1967: How I Got There and Why I Never Left”
1967 opens with Robyn Hitchock, aged 12, entering the English public school system, leaving the family home behind along with his model trams and trolleybuses. His has been a relatively privileged life so far, insulated, as […]
Live Reviews
Live Review: Roots In The Round – Dean Owens, Kirsten Adamson and Matt Joe Gow, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow, 11th July 2024
A few years back (2017 in fact) Dean Owens adopted the Nashville tradition of a “singers in the round” night for a tour featuring him, Robert Vincent and The Worry Dolls (reviewed here). He’s revitalised the […]
Album Reviews
Johnny Blue Skies “Passage Du Desir”
Under a pen name, country’s most radical act storms back into the picture. Johnny Blue who? Let’s not kid ourselves, “Passage Du Desir” (named for an alleyway in Paris) is the latest attempt by Sturgill Simpson […]