Joan Baez

Something for the weekend: Jesse Welles and Joan Baez “No Kings”

January 9, 2026 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist along with this month’s fabulous giveaway will be with you at 5pm. In the meantime we leave you […]

Interview: Liz Thomson on Greenwich Village, Joan Baez and the young Dylan

November 10, 2025 Martin Johnson 0

The last year has seen Bob Dylan take the media by storm, something that started with the success of “A Complete Unknown”, a biopic that covered his career between 1961-1965, which was a critical and commercial […]

Woody Guthrie “Woody At Home- Vol 1+2”

September 26, 2025 Andrew Raw 1

These home recordings of previously unreleased songs, including some previously not recorded, are a great historical document. The story of this album starts when Woody Guthrie got his first publishing deal in 1950 with Howie Richmond’s […]

February 14th folks… how did you forget?

February 14, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Now, this is what we’re talking about – themed track features. We love them, and that’s a very appropriate description today. Valentine’s Day. If you’re celebrating it (it’s not compulsory or even appropriate for everyone, we […]

Folk Tracks Roundup – January 2025

January 31, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

And so the ever-popular Folk Roundup returns after a short pause to allow for the flood of Winter Festival Themed songs (you remember all of them). And in this return there’s a very modern folk feel […]

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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 […]

Videos

Video Premiere: Thee Holy Brothers “Guru Honk”

March 25, 2025 0

Here’s the premiere of “Guru Honk”, the new single from Los Angeles-based duo Thee Holy Brothers. Marvin Etzioni and Willie Aron deliver melodic harmony vocals, floating over a twanging guitar and a powerful rhythm supplied by […]

Album Reviews

Tahoma “Hideaway” (Independent, 2016)

January 8, 2017 0

A five-piece band from Austin Texas Tahoma tread a melodic soft-rock path. While they mention the classic 70’s sounds of Jackson Browne, Joni Mitchell and the Eagles in their brief bio as influences much of this […]

Album Reviews

Vera Van Heeringen “Won’t Be Broken” (Wood & Steel, 2020)

February 14, 2020 0

Look, there are a lot of acoustic-based female singer-songwriters out there who are recording and performing in the same arena as Vera Van Heeringen; no need to name them here as this review is part of […]

Something for the weekend: Jesse Welles and Joan Baez “No Kings”

Interview: Liz Thomson on Greenwich Village, Joan Baez and the young Dylan

Woody Guthrie “Woody At Home- Vol 1+2”

February 14th folks… how did you forget?

Folk Tracks Roundup – January 2025

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”