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. […]

Dean Owenswith John Convertino and Joey Burns

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

September 24, 2026 0

It’s week 2 of the search for our writers’ Top 10 UK americana albums, and Jonathan Hincks will doubt add to the debate with his choice, as follows: With the hands of the Doomsday Clock edging […]

Album artwork for The Fool by Embla and the Karldotters

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

September 24, 2026 0

Norwegian queer-country assertively and affectionately delivering. Embla Karidotter was the drummer for Norwegian indie band Razika for 13 years, before she chose to change direction and build on her love of country music with new band […]

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

September 24, 2026 0

On the 16th of October, Béla Fleck is to release the recording of a stellar Nashville night as a live album called Live Heart. On January 8, 2022, he and a multigenerational gang of musical heavy […]

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

The Top 10 UK Americana Albums of All Time: Jonathan Hincks

Embla and the Karidotters “The Fool”

Béla Fleck releases live album to celebrate his Bluegrass Heart

Izzie Walsh “Where Do We Go From Here?”

Americana Stories – Stephen Eyre “On the road”