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artwork for Jeffrey Martin album "Thank God We Left The Garden".

Jeffrey Martin “Thank God We Left The Garden”

November 2, 2023 Graeme Tait 6

Martin delivers eleven hymns for the confessional on this most stunning and personal album. Jeffrey Martin may currently be a name you are unfamiliar with but with the release of his new album, the remarkably understated […]

Artwork for John Baumann album “Border Radio”

John Baumann “Border Radio”

November 2, 2023 Peter Thompson 0

Storytelling album filled with songs about Texan characters (and cars); lyrically inconsistent but still a good listen. Seemingly ever since the advent of motoring, there have been songs that reference cars (or automobiles). Songs that mention […]

Israel Nash “Ozarker”

November 1, 2023 Peter Churchill 2

Another high-class offering from the talented Mr Nash. There is a feature running on this esteemed website “More People Really Should Know About” that allows writers at AUK to shine a spotlight on artists whose work […]

Live Review: Kassi Valazza + Eli Winter, Mono, Glasgow, 26th October 2023

November 1, 2023 Paul Kerr 0

With Kassi Valazza’s album, ‘Kassi Valazza Knows Nothing’, riding high in my favourite albums of the year it was with a great deal of anticipation that I attended her first Scottish appearance in Glasgow’s hip Mono […]

Heather Lynne Horton “Get Me to a Nunnery”

November 1, 2023 Andrew Raw 0

High-quality music with compelling lyrics detailing the struggles in women’s lives. Chicago’s Heather Lynne Horton says that this record was inspired partly by the bravery of Sinead O’Connor, “chastised and persecuted for speaking for the broken, […]

Sorrel Nation will release sophomore album next month

September 8, 2026 0

Following a breakthrough period that saw major festival appearances, BBC Radio support and the release of her debut album Lost En Route, singer-songwriter Sorrel Nation returns with her second album, Creeping Thyme. The record will be […]

Blaine Todd “Angle of Repose”

September 8, 2026 0

Quirky, gentle release from San Francisco Bay area songwriter and musician. Angle of Repose is the fifth album from Bay area Blaine Todd, a newcomer to our site, but a release with a resonance with many […]

More People Really Should Know About: Liz Stringer

September 8, 2026 0

There are, of course, countless reasons why we love attending gigs and feeding on the buzz that only live music can give. On the Americana circuit that we inhabit in these pages, often at smaller and […]

Jeffrey Martin “Thank God We Left The Garden”

John Baumann “Border Radio”

Israel Nash “Ozarker”

Live Review: Kassi Valazza + Eli Winter, Mono, Glasgow, 26th October 2023

Heather Lynne Horton “Get Me to a Nunnery”

Sorrel Nation will release sophomore album next month

Blaine Todd “Angle of Repose”

More People Really Should Know About: Liz Stringer

Live Review: The Felice Brothers, 100 Club, London – 2nd September 2026

Bloodkin “Flowers & Ash”