Paul Kerr

Iron And Wine “Hen’s Teeth”

February 23, 2026 Paul Kerr 0

Sam Beam delivers a companion album to 2024’s Light Verse Punted in the publicity handout as a “sibling” album to 2024’s Light Verse, primarily as many of the songs contained here originated at the same sessions, […]

Book Review: Jay Nachman with Graham Parker and The Rumour “Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind”

February 13, 2026 Paul Kerr 0

A bridge of sorts between the faded pub rock scene and the about-to-emerge punk explosion, Graham Parker’s debut album “Howlin’ Wind” was an extraordinary debut, which saw the singer/songwriter lauded at the time. Sounding like an […]

AUK Back Pages No. 22

February 4, 2026 Paul Kerr 2

It’s the last four months of AUK’s tenth year as the premier online resource for all matters Americana. To mark the occasion there was a tenth birthday bash held in its heartland of Liverpool with a […]

AUK Short Cuts: Licking The Moose, The Late Lights, Brian Just, Alex Mason, Jackie Conn and The Jill Students Workshop Project

January 15, 2026 Paul Kerr 0

Well, given January is usually cold and dank, we’ll open this month’s proceedings with some dark (not necessarily dank mind you) Americana from deepest Norway in the shape of Licking The Moose’s latest album “Songs From […]

For the Sake of the Song: Peter Rowan “Panama Red”

January 12, 2026 Paul Kerr 2

Back in the late 60s and early 70s despite the adulation given to the ultimate trip, LSD, most of the hippie movement were getting high on pot (despite some draconian legal penalties if caught with the […]

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 0

The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]

Cover art for Tucker Zimmerman album "Dream Me A Dream"

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

July 27, 2026 0

Posthumous studio album from literate Californian singer-songwriter turns dreams into songs, providing a fitting epitaph for one of life’s truly great maverick artists. The sub-zero temperatures that covered the bulk of the UK during the first […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

July 27, 2026 0

Several years ago, while still teaching, my morning routine took me to the local swimming pool at six thirty every morning, where I would pull on some awful budgie smugglers and swim a kilometre at a […]

Articles by Paul Kerr

Iron And Wine “Hen’s Teeth”

Book Review: Jay Nachman with Graham Parker and The Rumour “Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind”

AUK Back Pages No. 22

AUK Short Cuts: Licking The Moose, The Late Lights, Brian Just, Alex Mason, Jackie Conn and The Jill Students Workshop Project

For the Sake of the Song: Peter Rowan “Panama Red”

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

Morton Valence “So Far Away” – all the distance inbetween

Video: James White & The Wild Fire “The Girl From Fort Worth” – peace on the other side