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Classic Clips: Cowboy Junkies – “Common Disaster” 1996

March 4, 2022 Tim Martin 0

If you had a penny for every break up song in the world, you would have a lot of pennies. Cowboy Junkies normally perceptive lyrics are especially on target here. “A candle burning for everything I’ve […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Little Feat “Sailin’ Shoes”

March 2, 2022 Kimberly Bright 4

‘Sailin’ Shoes’ was Little Feat’s second album with the original lineup of Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Richie Hayward, and Bill Payne. The quartet’s music was among many wonderful freewheeling experiments to come out of Frank Zappa’s […]

I Write The Songs… Harlan Howard

March 1, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

Harlan Howard pretty much wrote the book when it comes to country songwriting. Howard is the man behind the famous description of country music as being “three chords and the truth” and it’s a hard description […]

The Other Side Of Me: Mark Nenadic on the “perfect synthesis” of The Cramps

March 1, 2022 Mark Nenadic 2

The Cramps invented americana. They did. OK – not the plaid shirt, bearded type of americana music that we here at AUK bring you week in, week out. But the perfect synthesis of trash TV, trash […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Jesse Daniel “California Highway”

February 28, 2022 Helen Jones 0

Our last Chain Gang entry was ‘Amarillo Highway’ by Terry Allen, so I decided to take the rather direct route (pun intended) of going from one highway to another, more specifically from a Texan one to […]

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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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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 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

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 […]

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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 […]

Essentials

Essentials: The Top Ten Will Kimbrough Songs

November 28, 2024 5

Will Kimbrough is the real deal. A masterful singer-songwriter who has been recording a wide range of music since his debut band The Bis-Quits recorded their 1993 album on John Prine’s Oh Boy label. That band […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Mark Knopfler

June 25, 2025 2

I came fairly late to Mark Knopfler’s solo albums. In fact, I didn’t investigate them deeply until I reviewed “One Deep River” for AUK. Since scoring that 9 out of 10, I’ve examined some of his other post-Dire […]

News

The Secret Sisters announce new album “Mind, Man, Medicine”

January 11, 2024 0

Grammy-nominated duo The Secret Sisters, made up of siblings Laura Rogers and Lydia Slagle, will release their new album, “Mind, Man, Medicine” on March 29th 2024 via New West Records, and they have shared the first […]

Classic Clips: Cowboy Junkies – “Common Disaster” 1996

Classic Americana Albums: Little Feat “Sailin’ Shoes”

I Write The Songs… Harlan Howard

The Other Side Of Me: Mark Nenadic on the “perfect synthesis” of The Cramps

AUK’s Chain Gang: Jesse Daniel “California Highway”

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”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”