Grain Thief

Video Premiere: Grain Thief “Tapawingo”

October 28, 2025 Andrew Frolish 1

‘Tapawingo’, the new single from roots string band Grain Thief, is simply beautiful music to lose yourself in. Displaying excellent musicianship and songcraft, Grain Thief perform with grace and elegance, creating timeless, immersive music. The Boston-based quintet […]

Grain Thief “House Of The Dog”

July 24, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

A musically fun, if sometimes lyrically dark, fifth full-length from Boston string band Grain Thief. One of the benefits of reviewing albums for AUK is getting to hear artists that would almost certainly have gone unnoticed […]

AUK’s Bluegrass Briefs

January 10, 2023 Tim Martin 0

My colleague Paul Kerr started reporting on the Albums and EPs which don’t make the cut for a full review with his Short Cuts recently. But there is an area of Americana that sits on its […]

Patrick Mulroy “Other People’s Houses”

November 29, 2022 Cam Fraser 0

Grain Thief guitarist and vocalist rediscovers his heartland rock roots on his solo outing. Patrick Mulroy is guitarist, vocalist and one of the main songwriters in Boston-based band, Grain Thief. They’ve been described as a grassicana […]

Grain Thief “Something Sour, Something Sweet”

January 12, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

They may be grassicana but Grain Thief also have old-time chops as well Grassicana was first coined in 2017 to cover music that was influenced by bluegrass and its instrumentation but that also included elements from […]

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