Julian Taylor

Live Review: UK Americana Music Week – AMAUK UK Showcases, Hackney Venues, 21st January 2025

February 13, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1

The music showcases on the Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of the AMAUK’s annual conference are a really fine way to get going on gig attending after the inevitable Yuletide lull. Taking advantage of the high density […]

Julian Taylor & Jim Cuddy “Tulsa Time” – resetting my watch

January 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

We both kick-start and ease you into the week with a solid classic song performed by two of Canada’s finest, Julian Taylor and Blue Rodeo’s Jim Cuddy. Actually, that should be three of Canada’s finest since […]

Let’s Get Some Stones For Avalon – A Year In Tracks

December 19, 2024 Jonathan Aird 2

Stones dot the landscape, marks of older times now gone but vaguely recalled or at least felt subconsciously, a connection made through elapsed years. And the annual Track roundup is a bit like that as well […]

I picked up the loaded dice – Jon Aird’s 2024 year in review

December 16, 2024 Jonathan Aird 1

Has this year actually finished up already? Ignoring everything that happened for good and for ill out in the greater world, it has been a crazy musical ride – so many fantastic albums, so many amazing […]

AMAUK Award nominee Julian Taylor to tour UK and Ireland

December 13, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Toronto singer-songwriter, 4x Juno nominee, and UK Americana Music Awards nominee Julian Taylor has announced his return to the UK & Ireland in early 2025 following a year of European shows celebrating the release of his […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

Sons of the East “Palomar Parade”

October 5, 2022 0

The ingredients for a great album are all here, look for that greatness on their next record. It’s taken 10 years for Sons Of The East to release an album. Having been a live and streaming […]

Album Reviews

Ben Abraham “Sirens” (Secretly Canadian, 2016)

September 19, 2016 0

Ben Abraham first released Sirens in Australia in 2014; it has now been picked up for world-wide release and promotion by Secretly Canadian. Its thirteen songs have been described by Abraham as “a roadmap to my […]

Tracks

Leeann Skoda “Still” – Listen

January 28, 2021 0

There must be something in the air in LA, well maybe not in downtown LA but somewhere in LA, which once breathed in inspires the most delicate examples of folk song to be written. Admittedly this […]

Live Review: UK Americana Music Week – AMAUK UK Showcases, Hackney Venues, 21st January 2025

Julian Taylor & Jim Cuddy “Tulsa Time” – resetting my watch

Let’s Get Some Stones For Avalon – A Year In Tracks

I picked up the loaded dice – Jon Aird’s 2024 year in review

AMAUK Award nominee Julian Taylor to tour UK and Ireland

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”