Joan Baez

Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

June 11, 2026 Martin Johnson 2

Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]

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These home recordings of previously unreleased songs, including some previously not recorded, are a great historical document.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 […]

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