Dr John

Dr John “Sleeping Dogs Best Left Alone” – Great sounds from great man’s last album

June 13, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Another song from the late and much lamented Dr John (one of the few of whom it can be truly said “there’ll never be another one like him”), taken from the last studio album he completed […]

Dr John “Walk On Guilded Splinters” – laying some gris-gris on y’all

May 9, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Mac Rebennack took on the mantle of Dr John, the Nightripper on the classic album ‘Gris-Gris‘ released in 1968. It’s fair to say that it set a musical direction for most of the rest of Rebennack’s […]

Interview: Maria Muldaur on inventing Americana, songwriting and royalties

August 17, 2021 Tim Martin 1

From New York hippie chick to grande dame of American roots music. She started out as a New York hippie jug band chick playing with David Grisman and John Sebastian in the Even Dozen Jug Band […]

A Night to Remember: We’re seeing who?!

May 18, 2021 Jonathan Aird 3

A night to remember? We sure do like to set ourselves a challenge – and part of that is to avoid some gauche “bragging rights” list. Honestly, it’s the gigs I could have made but missed […]

Them Dirty Dimes “In Gold We Trust”

March 17, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0

Precisely played and entertaining jazz/roots Dutch debut. There was a little debate at AUK central about exactly where this offering sat genre-wise until musical uber galactico (see that clever meld of the kings of European football […]

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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

Magic Car “Meteorites” (Tiny Dog, 2016)

October 13, 2016 0

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Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Great Speckled Bird “Great Speckled Bird”

March 23, 2023 2

Until the ‘Festival Express’ movie was finally released on DVD in 2004, Ian and Sylvia Tyson’s band, Great Speckled Bird, had been an act known mainly by collectors and as the group Buddy Cage left to […]

Essentials

Essentials: The Top 10 Paul Simon Americana Songs

March 20, 2025 5

Is Paul Simon americana? For all his early involvement with the folk scene (including the British one), and his movement into various different world music threads, Paul Simon can ultimately be seen as a writer whose […]

Dr John “Sleeping Dogs Best Left Alone” – Great sounds from great man’s last album

Dr John “Walk On Guilded Splinters” – laying some gris-gris on y’all

Interview: Maria Muldaur on inventing Americana, songwriting and royalties

A Night to Remember: We’re seeing who?!

Them Dirty Dimes “In Gold We Trust”

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”