Carole King

Book Review: Uncut – Ultimate Genre Guide, Singer-Songwriter

March 19, 2025 Tim Martin 0

The Uncut ultimate music guides cover the careers of single artists but miss out on those who may not fill up a 100-page bookazine as the trade calls them. That’s where the genre guides plug up […]

Record Store Day 2023 – an AUK guide

April 18, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

It’s that time again when the format fiends get excited about queueing at 5 am (or earlier) to be among the few to own this year’s exclusively released records. Record Store Day started in 2007 and […]

Book Review – Loren Glass “Tapestry”

April 30, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0

Concise readable overview of a classic ’70s album. The Bloomsbury 331/3 series has produced another in its 150 plus catalogue of volumes about specific albums. The next in line is Carole King’s, ‘Tapestry’, described as, ‘An anthemic […]

Lucinda Williams and James Taylor discuss Carole King’s “Tapestry”

February 12, 2021 Mark Whitfield 1

Dave Simpson and Laura Snapes in The Guardian have interviewed a variety of people today about Carole King’s ‘Tapestry’ album as it’s now 50 years old, and there are some really interesting takes on it, including […]

Forgotten Artists – Dory Previn

December 8, 2020 Rick Bayles 10

Today’s FORGOTTEN ARTISTS article brings you something a little different from AUK writer Gordon Sharpe. Here, Gordon takes a look at the career of one of the great lyricists of American music. Dorothy, ‘Dory’, Veronica Previn […]

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