Features
Forgotten Artists – Kevin Brown
Back in the early ’80s I misspent my youth in small Bristol venues like The Green Rooms, and The Bridge Inn. In Bath it was The Bell in Walcot Street. All now long gone. There was a […]
Articles by Tim Martin
Album Reviews
The Pedaljets “Twist the Lens” (Electric Moth Records, 2020)
Americana is now a very broad church, and The Pedaljets are very much at the outer rock edge of it. Singer Mike Allmayer has a definite touch of Tom Petty about his voice and songs like […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Compilations – Sounds to remember
There was a time when the free CDs glued to the front of magazines were something other than a revenue stream for the publishers, and every so often a reminder of the glory days pops up. […]
Album Reviews
Cua “In Flight Off The Islands” (Independent, 2019)
The press release accompanying Cua’s (pronounced CooAhh) latest album quotes AUK’s Jeremy Searle discussing their last release. He said then: “this Irish trio stands right at the forefront of contemporary cutting-edge folk”. And that still stands […]
Features
Independent thinking: Tim Martin’s review of 2019
2019 was the year I reconnected with Americana and remembered what I love about the music. Given that I started writing for AUK this is hardly a surprise. What was a surprise was how many great […]