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Molly Tuttle + Ole Kirkeng, Night & Day, Manchester, 11th April 2019

April 18, 2019 Clint West 0

Molly Tuttle has been creating quite a lot of noise recently and on tonight’s evidence she’s no empty vessel. Twenty-six year old Tuttle grew up in San Francisco and started to play the guitar when she […]

Lucille Furs “Another Land” (Requiem Pour Un Twister, 2019)

April 18, 2019 Jonathan Aird 1

Lucille Furs, a five piece from Chicago, have an abiding admiration for psych-influenced rock, and on the showing of ‘Another Land‘ there’s a strong Anglophile side to that admiration. It’s something that singer Trevor Newton Pritchett […]

Field Medic “Fade Into The Dawn” (Run For Cover, 2019)

April 18, 2019 Louie Joe 0

Field Medic, aka Kevin Patrick, clearly doesn’t give a damn. The wild hearted Californian casually screams how bad his life sucks and does it with class and a healthy does of black humour. This second release […]

An American Forrest “O Bronder, Donder Yonder” (Hearth Music, 2019)

April 18, 2019 Alasdair Fotheringham 0

If you ever needed a case study to argue that an album’s backstory is sometimes as striking as the music itself, then ‘O Bronder, Donder Yonder’ wouldn’t be a bad place to start. Forrest Van Tuyl […]

Eric Bolander “The Wind” (Eastwood Records, 2019)

April 17, 2019 Dave Clarke 0

Eric Bolander is from Garrison, Kentucky,where he is an art teacher by day and a singer-songwriter by night. This album was recorded in Lexington Ky and produced by Duane Lundy (Sturgill Simpson). Listen to the title […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

May 11, 2026 0

The Woodstock festival held in 1969 at Yasgur’s farm, Bethel, New York, is one of those truly emblematic moments in the history of contemporary music, and indeed in the birth of americana. And of course it’s […]

I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”

May 11, 2026 0

Nordic americana with a slightly heavier tinge. I’m Kingfisher is the alter ego of Swedish singer-songwriter Thomas Jonsson. Give Up Together is his sixth album under that guise and comes three years after his last release, […]

AUK Mini-Gigs

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

May 11, 2026 0

Igloo Hearts are James and Katie MacGregor, a married folk-pop duo from North Wales. For our next AUK mini-gig, they kindly agreed to share some of their latest songs with our readers and viewers. Since appearing […]

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, […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

April 28, 2026 0

Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]

Interviews

Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

April 27, 2026 0

David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

Album Reviews

The Wild Feathers “Alvarado”

January 11, 2022 1

Fourth studio album from harmonious, southern rockers. In December 2020, having just independently released ‘Medium Rarities’, an odds-and-ends compilation which included three self-produced new songs, The Wild Flowers convened in a pre-Civil War built cabin near […]

Tracks

Track Premiere: Brown Horse “Stealing Horses”

September 27, 2023 0

Brown Horse are a six piece Americana band from Norwich (A Fine City) – they originally formed as a four piece folk band comprising Emma Tovell, Nyle Holihan, Patrick Turner and Rowan Braham in 2018 and […]

Features

Rob Clamp wins The Twang Factor 3

February 17, 2023 1

As outlined in yesterday’s runners-up announcement, The Twang Factor 3 was a very close affair but in the end Southampton-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rob Clamp won it by a nose from runners-up Sunsinger and the […]

Molly Tuttle + Ole Kirkeng, Night & Day, Manchester, 11th April 2019

Lucille Furs “Another Land” (Requiem Pour Un Twister, 2019)

Field Medic “Fade Into The Dawn” (Run For Cover, 2019)

An American Forrest “O Bronder, Donder Yonder” (Hearth Music, 2019)

Eric Bolander “The Wind” (Eastwood Records, 2019)

For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

Peter Case “At McCabe’s: My Life to Live”

The Krickets “If You Only Knew”