Father John Misty

Video: Father John Misty “Goodbye, Mr Blue”

April 25, 2022 Andrew Frolish 1

With gorgeously delicate finger-picking guitar and a wistfully warm, conversational vocal, Father John Misty, AKA Josh Tillman, delivers the beautiful ‘Goodbye Mr. Blue’. The song brings to mind the 1970s country singer-songwriter sound and, indeed, ‘Goodbye […]

Amigo The Devil “Born Against”

June 3, 2021 Mark Nenadic 0

A highly enjoyable collection of kitschy, melodramatic Gothic Americana. Danny Kiranos (aka Amigo The Devil) hails from Dallas, Texas. This fine record is oozing with dark humour. Waits, Cave and Cohen are stirred in liberally to […]

The Brother Brothers “Calla Lily”

April 19, 2021 Emily Dongray 0

The Brother Brothers’ sophomore album stands on the shoulders of New York giants. Twins David and Adam Moss are from Illinois, but they moved to Brooklyn, and they’ve taken to it like a duck on Harlem […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Helen Jones

July 16, 2020 Clint West 6

At AUK we are on a quest to find the ‘top 10 americana albums ever’. Over the last few weeks our writers have been going through the mental anguish of trying to narrow the whole history […]

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