Aimee Mann

Video: Freedy Johnston “Darlin'”

November 28, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0

Trigger warning: This music video deals with the death of a child. Aimee Mann picks up her pencil to illustrate Freedy Johnston’s new video for ‘Darlin’’. To make the song even sweeter, she adds backing vocals […]

Freedy Johnston 'Back On The Road Again'

Freedy Johnston “Back On The Road To You”

August 30, 2022 Jonathan Smith 0

Sunny summer sweetness, with just a touch of melancholy. Freedy Johnston has a 30 year music career behind him, during which time he has garnered praise and love from critics and musical peers. He nonetheless remains […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Helen Jones

July 7, 2022 Helen Jones 0

Like most of you, I consume a lot of new music. In getting through such a large amount of new material, obviously some things don’t make it into my regular rotation and some do. It was […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Darren Lumbroso

April 14, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 1

In 1984 I discovered Elvis Costello. I quickly sought out his back catalogue. However, there was a problem. I couldn’t get my head around ‘Almost Blue’, his 1981 album of country covers. Aptly enough the album […]

Killers and crowd-pleasing epics: Helen Jones’s Review of 2021

December 16, 2021 Helen Jones 2

Sadly, still no shows for me in 2021 (an autoimmune disorder means I’m operating with an abundance of caution), but hey, at least there has been a great raft of studio albums to keep me entertained. […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers