Essentials
Essentials: Top 10 Brandy Clark Songs
As great as a songwriter Brandy Clark is for others, It’s a stark reminder of the cruelty of the Nashville machine that she almost didn’t pursue a career as a solo artist at all: when she […]
Kacey Musgraves
Features
AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums Of The 21st Century: Ljubinko Zivkovic
How do you compile any list? Or in this specific case, how do you compile a list of the top 10 americana albums of the 21st century – a century when americana started getting more and […]
Features
AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Kimberly Bright
Man, it is hard to believe we’re already this far into the 21st century! As a Gen X’er, I have to ruefully admit the truth of the meme that we’ll always think 1980 was twenty years […]
Album Reviews
Ruston Kelly “Shape & Destroy” (Rounder Records, 2020)
With his 2018 debut album ‘Dying Star’, Ruston Kelly announced himself as a serious talent. AUK’s Jim Finnie described that release as “A really solid debut album by an artist destined for greater things”. The record […]