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Classic Clips: Lambchop “Give It” – XX Merge Festival, 2009

April 22, 2022 Ljubinko Zivkovic 1

There seem to be two lines of thinking (with a few sub-lines between them) about what the concept of Americana music should be. One sees it as a combination of all types of roots music with […]

Small Venue Heroes – Chuck Prophet

April 21, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 6

Chuck Prophet has been a regular feature of the live scene in the UK for over 30 years and although I have seen him several times, each of those time is joyous celebration of the uplifting […]

Classic Americana Album: Neutral Milk Hotel “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”

April 20, 2022 Cam Fraser 0

It takes quite an effort to be an especially lazy person; easier to just be typically lazy. So, in selecting this album as a classic of Americana, I’ll demonstrate my own typically lazy approach by straightaway […]

Classic Clips: Steve Earle “Ellis Unit One” – Sessions At West 54th, October 1998

April 19, 2022 Peter Tomkins 2

The 1995 film ‘Dead Man Walking’ was directed by Tim Robbins based on a non-fiction book of the same name by a Roman Catholic nun, Sister Helen Prejean, about her work as a spiritual adviser to […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Ramsay Midwood “Feed My Monkey”

April 19, 2022 Paul Russell 9

So last week we had some Canadian gunslinging with the wonderful The Guess Who. Firepower has been a relative constant in music over the years, inevitably providing musicians with powerful references. Looking back at the my […]

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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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Just binged "Legends" - a British drama on Netflix abou...
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Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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The Lone Bellow - The Lone Bellow (vinyl)
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Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 0

The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]

Artwork for Yarn album “Saturday Night Sermon”

Yarn “Saturday Night Sermon”

May 13, 2026 0

Enjoyable southern rock release with lyrics that focus on the positive. Formed in Brooklyn at the end of 2006, but now based in North Carolina, Yarn tend to lean towards the southern rock element of americana. […]

Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

May 13, 2026 0

The Bread and Roses is located in the heart of Clapham, London. Owned by The Battersea and Wandsworth Trade Union Council, it consists of the ground-floor pub and a theatre space above. It’s a community-oriented establishment […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

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Interviews

Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 0

“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

Interviews

Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

May 5, 2026 0

Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]

Tracks

Cordovas “High Roller” – playing for high stakes

July 14, 2023 0

This new song from Cordovas is pitched in a classic Cosmic Country meets Southern Rock meets Grateful Dead jamming – there’s a real feel of on the fly inspiration and improvisation on this tale of drunken […]

Album Reviews

Ernest Aines “Spiral Bound”

November 10, 2023 1

While it’s a smooth, intoxicating voice that draws you in, Eines’s excellent lyrics and skilful musicianship only draw you deeper. ‘Pixels’, the opening track on Ernest Aine’s debut album, may be about our ultra-modern fixation with […]

Album Reviews

Counting Crows “Butter Miracle, The Complete Sweets!”

June 6, 2025 0

A jubilant return with all the fear that’s fit to print. Fading glory in Oklahoma, the modern panopticon of the surveillance state, “we are dissolving from night to morning and I want to believe in something”. […]

Classic Clips: Lambchop “Give It” – XX Merge Festival, 2009

Small Venue Heroes – Chuck Prophet

Classic Americana Album: Neutral Milk Hotel “In the Aeroplane Over the Sea”

Classic Clips: Steve Earle “Ellis Unit One” – Sessions At West 54th, October 1998

AUK’s Chain Gang: Ramsay Midwood “Feed My Monkey”

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

Yarn “Saturday Night Sermon”

Live Review: Merry McCloud & Bruce Welch, The Bread and Roses, London – 3rd May 2026

Van Morrison to play 5 night residency at new West London venue in September

Odd Marshall “Seconds”