Richard Parkinson

Jenny Parrott announces release of new album “Love Spell”

May 8, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1

Austin experimental folk artist Jenny Parrott has announced the release oftheir new album ‘Love Spell’, which arrives on 28th June 2024. An eclectic mix of vocals – both in English and Spanish – as well as […]

Ben Glover “And The Sun Breaks Through The Sky”

May 7, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Northern Irish Nashville-based Ben Glover’s fine collection of songs. Ben Glover is as well-known as a songwriter as a performer, having written or co-written for a host of acts including Gretchen Peters, Mary Gauthier and Kim […]

25th anniversary expanded reissue for “From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music”

May 7, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in collaboration with Warner Music Nashville is releasing an expanded version of the box set ‘From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music’. Originally released in […]

Jess Williamson announces UK tour dates for summer

May 3, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Singer-songwriter Jess Williamson makes her second trip over the Atlantic in 2024 to play a series of shows in between some festival appearances. Williamson sold out two London dates on consecutive nights in January and has […]

Alice Wallace to release new album “Here I Am”

May 2, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Nashville-based singer-songwriter Alice Wallace has announced the release of her latest album ‘Here I Am’, on 28th June 2024 via Mule Kick Records. The record is her first since moving to Nashville four years ago from […]

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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3

Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

May 26, 2026 0

A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities. Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, […]

For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

May 26, 2026 0

This song is on Sheryl Crow’s Wildflower album, released in 2005 to lukewarm critical response. It was a low-key collection of songs – no All I Wanna Do or Soak Up the Sun among them – […]

Interviews

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

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Interviews

Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0

There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2

Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

Live Reviews

Live Review: BEATrio, Cadogan Hall, London – 9th & 10th July 2025

July 17, 2025 0

Two rare opportunities to see BEATrio where Béla Fleck has joined forces with harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez to produce a new sound in his banjo repertoire – and apologies to all the drum […]

Book Reviews

Paperback Riders – Barney Hoskyns “Hotel California”

April 3, 2023 0

Subtitled “Singer-Songwriters and Cocaine Cowboys in the LA Canyons, 1967-1976”, this the story of how Country mixed with pop, rock and folk to create something new in the hills above Los Angeles. It’s also the story […]

Album Reviews

Thorp Jenson “Odessa” (Independent, 2017)

December 14, 2017 0

Springsteen-tastic! Petty-rific! Okay, Virginia’s Thorp Jenson (aka Chris Ryan) isn’t the first musician to wear their influences proudly on their sleeve. It’s certain that he won’t be the last either. So the fair thing to do […]

Articles by Richard Parkinson

Jenny Parrott announces release of new album “Love Spell”

Ben Glover “And The Sun Breaks Through The Sky”

25th anniversary expanded reissue for “From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music”

Jess Williamson announces UK tour dates for summer

Alice Wallace to release new album “Here I Am”

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones”

Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson