Album Reviews
The Burrito Brothers “Together”
We may not be in the Gilded Palace of Sin but it is country rock with a ‘70s vibe. This is potentially a difficult album to review objectively because of the simple fact that ‘Together’ is […]
Flying Burrito Brothers
Book reviews
Paperback Riders: David N Meyer “Twenty Thousand Roads: The Ballad of Gram Parsons and His Cosmic American Music”
A quick look around Good Reads finds twelve biographies that are either directly about Parsons, or about the bands he was part of. So, if we are picking one source to learn about Gram Parsons why […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: The Flying Burrito Brothers “The Gilded Palace of Sin”
It’s been a couple of months since Jim Finnie’s wonderful article on ‘Sweetheart of the Rodeo’, in which he acknowledges a debt to Martin Johnson’s excellent piece on ‘Ballad of Easy Rider’. What better excuse than […]
Features
AUK’s top 10 Americana albums ever: Martin Johnson
At AUK we are on a quest to find the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums Ever’. Over the coming weeks and months each AUK writer will in turn, present their own personal selections. When each writer has […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Compilations – Sounds to remember
There was a time when the free CDs glued to the front of magazines were something other than a revenue stream for the publishers, and every so often a reminder of the glory days pops up. […]