Album Reviews
Jubal Lee Young “Wild Birds Warble”
Jubal Lee Young returns with a powerful acoustic album which pays tribute to his late father and brings outlaw country bang up to date. Jubal Lee Young is the son of Steve Young, one of the […]
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Reviews
Bluegrass Briefs – Kyle O’Brien Band, Mission Hill, Milltown Philosophers, Steve Erickson, Last Hour Bluegrass, Blackwater Railroad Company
This time we have a clutch of debut albums and EPs. Sometimes the music we have submitted for this column stretches the definition of Bluegrass, but this time we have mostly quite straight-ahead records, with only […]
Album Reviews
Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters “The Ones That Stay”
Country music with beautifully heartfelt lyrics reflecting on the rhythms of life. This is Amanda Anne Platt and The Honeycutters’ seventh studio album after 2022’s double album ‘The Devil and the Deep Blue Sea’. It is […]
Album Reviews
Billy Eli “Lace”
Veteran Texas troubadour recovers his muse. Billy Eli is a Texas songwriter with plenty of miles under his wheels, both literally and metaphorically. It’s been forty years of pounding the American highways, playing honky tonks and […]
Album Reviews
Ani DiFranco “Unprecedented Sh!t”
Editor’s note: We are not puritanical about swearing here at AUK, in fact we like a good cuss from time to time, but NSFW email filters might block tomorrow’s Mailchimp email if we don’t change the […]