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Essentials: The Top Ten Buddy Holly Americana Covers

September 19, 2024 Martin Johnson 10

It is a testament to his lasting influence and the fact that his songs have entered mainstream culture that Charles Hardin Holley, also known as Buddy Holly, is still a pervading musical presence 65 years after […]

Joe Ely “Driven to Drive” – a classic Texas song about life on the road

July 22, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

Joe Ely delivers his classic Texas sound on his new single ‘Driven to Drive’. This is the title track for his new album dus 2nd August from Rack ‘Em Records/Thirty Tigers. Famed for his raw country […]

Joe Ely “Driven To Drive”

July 17, 2024 Peter Churchill 1

Joe Ely delves into the past to reflect on a life spent on the road. ‘Driven To Drive’ has been a long time in the making. After Twenty-three albums and countless miles under his belt Joe […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: 10,000 Maniacs ft. David Byrne “Dallas” MTV Unplugged 1993

September 12, 2022 Clint West 0

Our last Chain Gang offering saw Viv Fish serve up a tasty little clip of Andrew Combs performing ‘Strange Bird’ from his 2015 ‘All These Dreams’ album. Although now a resident of Nashville, Combs originally hails from the city of […]

Classic Americana Albums: Joe Ely “Honky Tonk Masquerade”

July 6, 2022 Rick Bayles 4

It’s my turn to contribute to the Classic Americana Albums series again and I always worry that I won’t be able to find a good album to write about. This series has been running for a […]

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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”

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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

Something for the weekend: Lucinda Williams covers ZZ Top

August 13, 2021 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader. A lot of new stuff out today singles-wise including a new eighties sounding song by Sam Outlaw, a new collaboration from Darlingside with The Distantly Social Orchestra, and […]

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Video: Andrew Bird “Never Fall Apart”

March 7, 2023 0

Andrew Bird delivers another minimalist anthem with the video for ‘Never Fall Apart’. Prominent Anishiaabe musician Keith Secola mimes Bird’s words on screen as he follows a long string of yarn from his telephone through the […]

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Video: Mitch Dean “A Face in a Long Line”

June 9, 2020 0

A catchy tune and a clever video make this new release from Mitch Dean stand out. It’s the first single and opening track from ‘Holding Back the Levee’, due out on 19th June. After time spent […]

Essentials: The Top Ten Buddy Holly Americana Covers

Joe Ely “Driven to Drive” – a classic Texas song about life on the road

Joe Ely “Driven To Drive”

AUK’s Chain Gang: 10,000 Maniacs ft. David Byrne “Dallas” MTV Unplugged 1993

Classic Americana Albums: Joe Ely “Honky Tonk Masquerade”

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”