Paul Campbell

Araluen “And There It Is”

January 25, 2021 Paul Campbell 0

Well crafted country-soul songs with a hint of other paths Araluen’s “And There It Is” is the vehicle for Paul Lush’s collection of songs. Lush contributes guitar to Danny and the Champions and has recruited Steve […]

Mules and Men “Roscommon County Line” (Independent, 2020)

November 30, 2020 Paul Campbell 0

Mules and Men are a four-piece band from Dublin who advertise themselves as playing progressive bluegrass. Unfortunately, this does not mean concept albums about tortured medieval wizards performed by cape clad musicians on ice. This reviewer […]

Stony Point Rd “Beautiful Losers” (Independent, 2020)

November 3, 2020 Paul Campbell 0

Stony Point Rd’s ‘Beautiful Losers’ is a collection of songs originally written in the late 90s and early 2000s by Ola Goransson. The songs are focused on characters living their lives in a small American town […]

William Elliot Whitmore “I’m With You” (Bloodshot Records, 2020)

October 12, 2020 Paul Campbell 0

William Elliott Whitmore’s ‘I’m With You’ is his first release of original material since 2015’s “Radium Death (ANTI-)”, and features energetic banjo playing, stomping bass drum sounds and some neat fiddle playing. The most representative song […]

Old Sea Brigade & Luke Sital-Singh “All The Ways You Sing In The Dark” (Nettwerk Records, 2020)

September 25, 2020 Paul Campbell 0

‘All the Ways You Sing In The Dark’ lasts thirteen minutes and leaves you longing for more. The four songs on the EP come from a collaboration between Sital-Singh and Ben Cramer last summer and retain […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

Interviews

Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Album Reviews

Billy Don Burns “I’ve Seen A Lot Of Highway”

September 26, 2023 0

Battle Scared Outlaw’s Reflections of life on the road. It’s hard not to listen to the new album by Billy Don Burns without thinking about fellow hard-living country outlaws such as Kris Kristofferson and Willie Nelson. […]

Americana Roots

Americana Roots: Clutch

July 16, 2021 0

Americana Roots highlights the freshest and most original Americana and bluegrass from across the pond in the US. It covers everything from brand-new, just out of the box bands, to cult favourites, to established acts who […]

Features

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Keith Hargreaves

October 1, 2020 1

Welcome once again to the latest selections in AUK’s ongoing search for the ‘top 10 americana albums ever’. You know the format by now: each week a different AUK writer chooses their own personal top 10. […]

Articles by Paul Campbell

Araluen “And There It Is”

Mules and Men “Roscommon County Line” (Independent, 2020)

Stony Point Rd “Beautiful Losers” (Independent, 2020)

William Elliot Whitmore “I’m With You” (Bloodshot Records, 2020)

Old Sea Brigade & Luke Sital-Singh “All The Ways You Sing In The Dark” (Nettwerk Records, 2020)

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”