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Video: Josh Rouse “Miracle”

August 20, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

It’s retro Friday once again and, this week, we bring you the classic song ‘Miracle’ by Josh Rouse. This song first appeared on the 2002 album ‘Under Cold Blue Stars’ but many will remember it from […]

Video: Sam Barron “Karaoke Queen”

August 19, 2021 Cam Fraser 0

New York City’s Sam Barron has just released ‘Karaoke Queen‘, a track from his forthcoming album, ‘A Prayer for a Field Mouse‘. Barron has reunited with producer Charles Newman (The Magnetic Fields, The Bones of J.R. Jones, Soko), with […]

Video: The Orange Circus Band “Sit Down by the Fire”

August 19, 2021 Andrew Frolish 1

This is a perfect song for those late-night summer parties. Taken from the album ‘Whistle in the Dawn’, this is the latest single from The Orange Circus Band. After so long without regular touring, the band […]

Video: The Burner Band “Block Out The S*n”

August 18, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

As all dedicated readers of this website will know, AUK Towers sits somewhere in a suburb of South Liverpool. Each year we have a friend who comes up here to Liverpool every so often, and each […]

Video Premiere: Jeffrey Dean Foster “I’m Starting to Bleed”

August 18, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the video premiere of Jeffrey Dean Foster’s latest single, a powerful reaction to the murder of George Floyd. The watching world was shocked and gripped by this in the summer of 2020 and the […]

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Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

March 20, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from British slacker twang quartet Brown Horse, the third and final single from their upcoming album Total Dive […]

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

March 20, 2026 1

Danny George Wilson delivers a reflective and beautifully crafted set of songs exploring loss, memory, and the difficult business of moving on. Danny George Wilson follows up the Danny & The Champions of the World album, […]

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

March 20, 2026 0

Tampa-born, New Orleans-based singer/songwriter Thomas Dollbaum has announced his new album Birds of Paradise, “a goodbye letter to lost loved ones and former selves,” which will come out on May 22 via Dear Life Records, and […]

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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Features

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Tim Martin

July 23, 2020 5

At AUK we are on a quest to find the ‘top 10 americana albums ever’. Over the last few weeks our writers have been going through the mental anguish of trying to narrow the whole history […]

Album Reviews

Mathew Robb “War Without Witness”

July 8, 2021 0

On his third album, Robb both honors his inspirations and presents a personal vision of Americana. It is in no way unusual that Americana artists of all shapes and colours have both Bob Dylan and Townes […]

Album Reviews

Tyrone Cotton “Man Like Me”

December 22, 2023 0

A deeply personal record which brings together a host of musical styles. Tyrone Cotton’s songs are a blend of folk, blues, soul, jazz and rock’n’roll. He’s been a fixture on the Louisville music scene for the […]

Video: Josh Rouse “Miracle”

Video: Sam Barron “Karaoke Queen”

Video: The Orange Circus Band “Sit Down by the Fire”

Video: The Burner Band “Block Out The S*n”

Video Premiere: Jeffrey Dean Foster “I’m Starting to Bleed”

Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”

Danny George Wilson “Arcade”

Thomas Dollbaum enlists MJ Lendeman and friends for his latest album

Classic Clips: Brown Horse “Wipers”, Newport 2024

Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”