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Video: Rodney Crowell – “Triage”

July 2, 2021 Cam Fraser 1

Rodney Crowell meditates on love and life as he takes a sombre walk through Nashville’s neglected back streets. Since moving to Nashville in 1972, Rodney Crowell has held onto his place at the top-table of Americana […]

Video Premiere: Kate Ellis “Another Way”

July 2, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

In this beautifully performed video premiere, Kate Ellis sings about flawed people and flawed relationships and how those connections become an important part of who we are. It’s a song full of absorbing narrative details that […]

Video Premiere: Icarus Phoenix “All the Same”

July 1, 2021 Cam Fraser 0

‘All the Same’ is the latest single from Drew Danburry’s current project, Icarus Phoenix, and it comes with another poignant and beautiful animation, hand-drawn by the musician himself across countless index cards. Singer, songwriter, guitarist, barber, skateboarder, […]

Video: Colin Macleod feat. Sheryl Crow “33”

July 1, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

Back in 2018, Sheryl Crow and Colin Macleod toured together and she has been a supporter of his work ever since. Here, on ’33’, Crow provides a gorgeous vocal that dances around Macleod’s characterful, storytelling voice. […]

Video: Michael Weston King “Weight of the World”

June 30, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

The social and political upheaval of recent times has, on many occasions, left us breathless and uncertain in an increasingly divided world. With lyrical directness, Michael Weston King sings that, “It’s not the weight of the […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Video: William The Conqueror “Move On”

February 12, 2021 0

Check out the latest single from William the Conqueror’s highly-anticipated forthcoming album. The video for ‘Move On’ cleverly combines and contrasts archive footage drenched in nostalgia with lyrical themes of restlessness, feeling stuck in the past […]

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Join Carson McHone on her musical merry-go-round

January 25, 2019 0

Native of Austin, Texas, Carson McHone, kicks off her first ever UK tour at the end of this month. She opens with a showcase at AmericanaFest UK in London on 29th of January, where she’ll also […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: Vera Lynn “Try A Little Kindness”

June 12, 2023 1

“Cliffs of Dover” in last week’s chain looked suspiciously like a challenge for the next link. Not wishing to shirk such a test, here goes, although this could be the last you ever hear from this […]

Video: Rodney Crowell – “Triage”

Video Premiere: Kate Ellis “Another Way”

Video Premiere: Icarus Phoenix “All the Same”

Video: Colin Macleod feat. Sheryl Crow “33”

Video: Michael Weston King “Weight of the World”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”