Paul Kerr

More People Really Should Know About: Steve Dawson

November 4, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

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 […]

Neal Casal “No One Above You (The Early Years 1991-1998)”

October 24, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

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 Review: Rob Miller “The Hours Are Long But The Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music”

October 24, 2025 Paul Kerr 1

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 […]

AUK Shortcuts: Kirsten Adamson, Garrett Hendricks, Levi Foster, Austin Stambaugh, Jack Schneider, The Shallow Riverbanks, Elizabeth & Jameson and Peter Stampfel

October 20, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

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, […]

AUK Back Pages No. 19

October 16, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

It’s the run-up to jingle bells once more as we explore the last quarter of 2010 via the archives still available and the monthly CDs sent out to our fee-paying Friends of Americana UK. The four […]

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

More People Really Should Know About: Steve Dawson

Neal Casal “No One Above You (The Early Years 1991-1998)”

Book Review: Rob Miller “The Hours Are Long But The Pay Is Low: A Curious Life in Independent Music”

AUK Shortcuts: Kirsten Adamson, Garrett Hendricks, Levi Foster, Austin Stambaugh, Jack Schneider, The Shallow Riverbanks, Elizabeth & Jameson and Peter Stampfel

AUK Back Pages No. 19

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