Tim Martin

Live Review: Boulder Fields, The Bell, Bath – 20th May 2025

May 29, 2025 Tim Martin 0

AUK writer Cam Fraser has a distinguished past playing in several bands and in 2024 he released the first album under the Boulder Fields name. Adding a West Coast sparkle to his unmistakeably Scottish sound, it […]

More People Really Should Know About: Michael Carpenter

May 27, 2025 Tim Martin 4

The dividing line between genres can often be blurry at best, and americana, indie rock, country and power pop often overlap to the point that pigeonholing becomes pointless. An interesting example of skipping between and beyond […]

Paul Armfield “Between The Covers – 9 Songs For Bibliophiles”

May 23, 2025 Tim Martin 0

A reflection on the love of books through some great original songs and well chosen covers. When Paul Armfield sat down in early 2024 to start writing songs for what would be his 9th album release, […]

Suzanne Vega “Flying With Angels”

May 20, 2025 Tim Martin 0

The wait was worth it for an almost faultless set of songs for our time. It’s 11 years since Suzanne Vega last produced an album of all new material. Having always been a particularly thoughtful songwriter […]

Book Review: In-Law Country – Geoffrey Himes “How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985”

May 9, 2025 Tim Martin 2

Published in association with The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, this hefty (357 pages + notes) book examines what Himes calls “a musical movement of outsiders who, in time, became influential insiders.” As this […]

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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 […]

Tracks

Bonny Light Horseman “Green Rocky Road” – Listen

July 9, 2020 0

Without a doubt one of the most exciting bands to emerge in 2019 – we loved the album, we loved them live. If you need the reminder, Bonny Light Horseman are Anais Mitchell, Eric D. Johnson and […]

Videos

Video: The Orange Circus “I Miss You”

November 22, 2018 3

This the new single from The Orange Circus which is released today. It’s only a single frame video but the song is a proper classic country ballad, full of heartbreak and desire that puts pretty much […]

Album Reviews

Angelica Rockne “The Rose Society”

May 11, 2023 0

Autobiography combines with ambiguity to create a great second time out. Angelica Rockne’s ‘The Rose Society’ is a solid sophomore effort from a rising California star. A combination of sounds and vaguely psychedelic aura give it […]

Articles by Tim Martin

Live Review: Boulder Fields, The Bell, Bath – 20th May 2025

More People Really Should Know About: Michael Carpenter

Paul Armfield “Between The Covers – 9 Songs For Bibliophiles”

Suzanne Vega “Flying With Angels”

Book Review: In-Law Country – Geoffrey Himes “How Emmylou Harris, Rosanne Cash, and Their Circle Fashioned a New Kind of Country Music, 1968-1985”

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”