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Suzie Ungerleider “Among the Evergreens”

July 4, 2025 Sebastian Reyes Turner 0

Past and present in the soundtrack of a lifetime. Memories often seem to gravitate around specific songs, which stick in your mind as some of the defining pieces of a particular time or place. They hide […]

Bluegrass Briefs: Bela Fleck, Mason Via, Sister Sadie, J.D. Crowe

July 4, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Bluegrass is a genre that has expanded to fit the ambitions of its practitioners in recent years. We’ve looked at Bela Fleck’s experiments with it in previous columns, but has stretched genre to breaking point with […]

Artwork for Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman album “Hearsay & Heresy”

Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman “Hearsay & Heresy”

July 4, 2025 Peter Thompson 0

Fancy some comfort food? This record from a radio DJ and a guitar tutor delivers it by the forkful. Mark Radcliffe and David Boardman are two members of the seven-piece americana band FineLines; Boardman being one […]

Amanda DeBoer Bartlett “Braided Together”

July 4, 2025 Tim Martin 0

Fine songs about children and motherhood, set to only intermittently great music. A common way for P.R.s to direct the attention of reviewers to an album is “RIYL,” which stands for “Recommended If You Like”. In […]

Willi Carlisle “Winged Victory”

July 3, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

Willi Carlisle comes up with an album which is both defiant and hopeful. “When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro.” So wrote Hunter S. Thompson back in the 70s amidst the turmoil of the […]

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Artwork for Fayen album Something To Look Back On

Fayen “Something To Look Back On”

April 21, 2026 0

Norwegian duo delivers a nordicana record filled with beautiful songs, expertly performed and arranged. Fayen is a Norwegian duo based in Trondheim, situated in central Norway, on the south shore of the third-largest of Norway’s fjords, Trondheimsfjorden […]

For the Sake of the Song: Steve Young “Rock, Salt & Nails”

April 21, 2026 0

Before embarking on this feature, to avoid duplication, I conducted a search on ‘Steve Young’, on the AUK website and was surprised to find there are precious few recent pieces devoted to someone who was surely […]

Chip Taylor “Words From Holy Gardens”

April 21, 2026 0

Poignancy heaped upon poignancy on Taylor’s final recordings Words From Holy Gardens was already a very emotionally wrought record, featuring as it does Chip Taylor’s home recordings of his responses to aging and in particular to […]

Suzie Ungerleider “Among the Evergreens”

Bluegrass Briefs: Bela Fleck, Mason Via, Sister Sadie, J.D. Crowe

Mark Radcliffe & David Boardman “Hearsay & Heresy”

Amanda DeBoer Bartlett “Braided Together”

Willi Carlisle “Winged Victory”

Fayen “Something To Look Back On”

For the Sake of the Song: Steve Young “Rock, Salt & Nails”

Chip Taylor “Words From Holy Gardens”

Jesse Malin “Hollywood Forever” – tribute to a friend

Video Premiere: The Rosie Daze Band “Will Rise” – music for the ages