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Live Review: Boulder Fields, The Bell, Bath – 20th May 2025

May 29, 2025 Tim Martin 0
AUK writer Cam Fraser has a distinguished past playing in several bands and in 2024 he released the first album under the Boulder Fields name. Adding a West Coast sparkle to his unmistakeably Scottish sound, it […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Cam Fraser AKA Boulder Fields on being “With All The Other Ghosts”

August 13, 2024 Martin Johnson 0
Old punk musicians never die they just become roots music troubadours. To his friends on the Americana UK team, he is Cam Fraser, a knowledgeable music writer who is proud of his Scottish heritage. However, he […]
Videos

Video: Boulder Fields “Measures”

June 7, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out the uptempo ‘Measures’, the latest single from Edinburgh-based Boulder Fields.  Boulder Fields is the musical moniker of Scottish singer-songwriter Cam Fraser, who has developed a fine blend of indie-folk, Americana and rock.  The rhythmic track […]

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

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Features

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 […]
Album Reviews

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0
An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]
Album Reviews

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

March 23, 2026 0
An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]

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  • Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”
  • Jack Studer “Falling Forward”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”
  • Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”
  • Video: Jay Buchanan “Sway” – always wanting to do it better
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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 […]

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Clint’s Classic Clips: Jason & The Scorchers “White Lies” Farm Aid, 1986

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A typically electrifying performance from the band that for many provided the stepping stone from punk to americana. Farm Aid was set up by Willie Nelson and Neil Young and began in 1985 to raise money […]
Tracks

Wilderado “In Between” – neither here nor yet there

November 17, 2023 0
Wilderado must have a great affection for this song – it first appeared as a single, emerging from the sessions for the band’s second album.  Quick on the heels of that release came a live version […]
Features

For The Sake Of The Song: Mary Chapin Carpenter “American Stooge”

February 9, 2026 0
Mary Chapin Carpenter has featured many times in the various features of these pages. As one of the greatest Americana artists to emerge from the 20th century this is hardly a surprise and over the course […]

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