Paul Kerr

Live Review: Doghouse Roses + Kim Oehme with Cahalen Morrison, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 30th October 2021

November 10, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

It’s still enough of a novelty to go to a gig that much of the pleasure is derived from seeing faces from the past and catching up after almost two years of enforced isolation. Sure enough, […]

Billy Bragg “The Million Things That Never Happened”

November 5, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

Bragg returns with a remarkable album on the human cost of the pandemic while still finding time to protest. Billy Bragg has certainly moved on from his days as a one-man band, building up an impressive […]

AUK’s Chain Gang : Steve Earle “CCKMP (Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain)”

November 1, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

In last week’s Chain Gang we had Johnny Cash cavorting and killing around the wild west and, at the end of his song, ‘Cocaine Blues’, advising the listener to “lay off that whiskey and let that […]

Johnny Cash “Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968”

October 27, 2021 Paul Kerr 0

Johnny Cash swaps prisoners for hippies as he moves from Folsom Prison to Haight Ashbury back in 1968. Folk might argue as to what the high point of Johnny Cash’s lengthy career was – the Sun […]

Classic Clips : Nils Lofgren with Grin

October 22, 2021 Paul Kerr 1

No apologies here for going back to the dark old days of 1973, another world really when it was still legal to discriminate against half of the UK population on the grounds that they were women. […]

artwork for Pete Ham tribute album "Just Look Inside the Cover"

Various Artists “Just Look Inside the Cover – Songs of Pete Ham”

July 28, 2026 0

A worthy homage to an often-overlooked figure. Tribute albums are a very democratic form of praise since any artist, no matter how big or small, can potentially receive this honour. Be it compositions in the style […]

Willie J Healey to release new EP before October tour dates

July 28, 2026 0

Willie J Healey has announced news of a new EP set for release on 4th September via V2; 143, which will be released ahead of a short run of intimate October UK headline tour dates, and […]

Nicole Atkins “Singing In The Mirror” – hey, give yourself a break

July 28, 2026 0

It’s been an age since the last release from Nicole Atkins, the good nes is that her long-awaited seventh studio album Drama is arriving via Sun Records / Wicked Game Records on Friday 18th September. And […]

Articles by Paul Kerr

Live Review: Doghouse Roses + Kim Oehme with Cahalen Morrison, The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 30th October 2021

Billy Bragg “The Million Things That Never Happened”

AUK’s Chain Gang : Steve Earle “CCKMP (Cocaine Cannot Kill My Pain)”

Johnny Cash “Bear’s Sonic Journals: Johnny Cash, At The Carousel Ballroom, April 24, 1968”

Classic Clips : Nils Lofgren with Grin

Various Artists “Just Look Inside the Cover – Songs of Pete Ham”

Willie J Healey to release new EP before October tour dates

Nicole Atkins “Singing In The Mirror” – hey, give yourself a break

Video: Lily Seabird “Election Day” – lost in the darkness, searching for the light

For The Sake Of The Song: Dean Owens “Sally’s Song (I Dreamed Of Michael Marra)”