Brooks Williams

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Brooks Williams

July 29, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Writing and performing for over thirty years, Brooks Williams has carved out his own niche and earned a reputation as a superior guitarist to go along with prolific songcraft that has produced a staggering 34 albums […]

This State of the Union is a very fine thing and they’re out on tour!

February 4, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Boo Hewerdine and Brooks Williams aka State of the Union, are out on tour creating their “magical, stripped back and enthralling musical atmosphere” as usual with just two guitars and two voices. The two formed their […]

AUK Shortcuts February 2024: Luke Callen, Pierce Crask, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, James Varda, Dusty Wright, Brooks Williams, Jim Byrne, Red Sammy and Cowboy Kerouac with Cocaine Fairies

February 29, 2024 Paul Kerr 2

Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]

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Rab Noakes & Brooks Williams “Should We Tell Him”

August 18, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

An album of Don Everly songs proves a fitting tribute to the legend of the Scottish Folk scene, Rab Noakes. Rab Noakes, who died last October after a short illness, was a touchstone of the Scottish […]

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Live Review: Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow, The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle upon Tyne – 23rd April 2023

May 4, 2023 Viv Fish 0

The Cumberland Arms in Newcastle’s trendy and historic Ouseburn district has been a well-established music venue since the 1960s, supporting hundreds of artists and events each year. Tonight it was the turn of Brooks Williams & […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Album Reviews

Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms “Gold In Your Pocket”

November 19, 2024 1

Portland duo hit trad’ country paydirt with joyous third. Caleb Klauder & Reeb Willms are steeped in the traditional sounds of country music, sounds that have changed little since first emerging in 1920s Appalachia and finding […]

Album Reviews

Daniel Carlson “Not A Drawing” (Folkwit Records, 2017)

January 9, 2018 0

This third album from New Yorker, Daniel Carlson, is sure to delight anyone who believes that Paul McCartney and Brian Wilson are the bee’s knees, the best, the topper most. Carlson, like them, writes sweet songs, […]

Features

For the Sake of the Song: Megan Moroney “Hair Salon”

July 15, 2024 1

To be honest, Megan Moroney isn’t the type of artist that tends to get coverage on AUK, but this feature is about the song and in americana music the song is the story. And Moroney is […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Brooks Williams

This State of the Union is a very fine thing and they’re out on tour!

AUK Shortcuts February 2024: Luke Callen, Pierce Crask, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, James Varda, Dusty Wright, Brooks Williams, Jim Byrne, Red Sammy and Cowboy Kerouac with Cocaine Fairies

Rab Noakes & Brooks Williams “Should We Tell Him”

Live Review: Brooks Williams & Aaron Catlow, The Cumberland Arms, Newcastle upon Tyne – 23rd April 2023

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

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

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Jack Studer “Falling Forward”