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Cowboy Junkies announce new album covering their favourite artists

February 10, 2022 Emily Dongray 1
Cowboy Junkies have announced their new album ‘Songs of Recollection‘ will be released on March 25th on Proper Records. This covers compilation is the latest in a career spanning 30 years since they formed in Toronto […]
Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Cowboy Junkies albums

April 22, 2021 Tim Martin 4
In both of AUK’s best albums ever polls The Cowboy Junkies ‘The Trinity Session’ scored highly, finishing at number 12 for the writers, and number 18 for our readers. For a group whose style is often […]
Features

VERSIONS: “Hot Burrito #1/ I’m Your Toy”

April 19, 2021 Tim Martin 1
In our VERSIONS series this week, which takes a look at different versions of the same song, we look back to a stone-cold classic from the Burritos which went on to be covered by… well, read […]
Features

10 americana songs about horses

January 20, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 10
Here we have another in the ‘ten‘ series – ten songs with horses as the subject.  You might think there would be dozens and for all I know there are – but I certainly spent some […]
Features

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Lyndon Bolton

January 14, 2021 Clint West 4
Welcome once more to AUK’s quest to identify the top 10 americana albums ever. Looking back it is quite striking to see not only the diversity of the selections so far but also the consistent quality […]

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

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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

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

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Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

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News

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 artwork
Album Reviews

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 […]
Marah Live
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 […]

  • 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”
  • 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
  • Something for the weekend: Brown Horse “Wreck”
  • Danny George Wilson “Arcade”
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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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Tracks

Kurt Vile with John Prine “How Lucky” – Listen

September 25, 2020 0
Kurt Vile has a new EP out called ‘Speed, Sound, Lonely KV’ which will be released next week on October 2nd. The EP contains the track ‘How Lucky’, a duet with John Prine, covering his classic […]
Interviews

Interview:  Darden Smith on why songs by themselves aren’t enough to explain Western Skies

March 24, 2022 0
How an old Polaroid and the pandemic helped reinvigorate a thirty-plus-year career. Austin-based songwriter Darden Smith has always done things his way, rather than following the norms of the music business. Texas-born Smith came to Austin […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Katy Tessman “Ghost Ranch”

September 12, 2025 0
Minneapolis singer-songwriter Katy Tessman delivers her new video via Americana UK.  The atmospheric ‘Ghost Ranch’, featuring ethereal backing vocals and languid guitar twanging in the desert heat, is built around Tessman’s striking country voice – it’s […]

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