L. A. Edwards

Live Review: L.A. Edwards + Jade Jackson, The Grace, London – 10th July 2024

July 25, 2024 David Chalfen 1

To the heart of Islington on yet another autumnal July evening. L.A. Edwards are on their first European tour as headliners. A previous support tour with Lucinda Williams is a fine way to bolster credibility and […]

L.A. Edwards “Gone 4U” – the passing of time

May 8, 2024 Ed Donnelly 0

L.A. Edwards evoke a drive through the American heartland via CBGBs on their new single ‘Gone 4U’. While the title of the song seems like an homage to Prince, the song itself is pure Midwest americana; […]

L. A. Edwards “Good Luck” – No, really, good luck…

February 27, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0

Soon to be seen touring the UK and mainland Europe with Americana UK’s official greatest Americana artist of all time Lucinda Williams, L. A. Edwards also have a new single out ‘Good Luck‘ which presages the […]

Live Review: Lucinda Williams and Buick 6 + L.A. Edwards, The Barbican, London – 21st January 2023

January 27, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

According to social media posts from those who have seen Lucinda Williams’ current shows, she and her band are on top form. Here at AUK we’ve been lucky enough to have had reporters at two of […]

L. A. Edwards “True Blue” (Independent, 2018)

July 9, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

Hailing from South California, L. A. Edwards has hooked up with Heartbreaker Ron Blair in the producer’s chair for this collection of what is probably best described as “soft rock,” that genre which ruled FM radio […]

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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 […]

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Suzie Ungerleider announces 2022 UK tour

April 29, 2022 0

Following the release of her acclaimed album ‘My Name is Suzie Ungerleider’, three-time Canadian Juno Award nominee Suzie Ungerleider has announced a string of 2022 UK shows in an extension to her North American tour. Beginning […]

Album Reviews

Sam Outlaw “Tenderheart” (Six Shooter Records, 2017)

April 13, 2017 0

‘Tenderheart’ is the follow-up to Sam Outlaw’s well-received 2015 debut ‘Angeleno’ and Outlaw picks up where he left off to expand on his laid back, So-Cal country sound. Opening track Everyone’s Looking For Home chronicles the […]

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Willie Nelson talks to Rolling Stone and suggests Jeff Sessions “smokes some pot”

May 19, 2017 0

No stranger to the weed himself, Willie Nelson in a lengthy interview with Rolling Stone magazine was asked his opinion on US Attorney General Jeff Sessions’ assertion that “pot is “only slightly less awful” than heroin.” […]

Live Review: L.A. Edwards + Jade Jackson, The Grace, London – 10th July 2024

L.A. Edwards “Gone 4U” – the passing of time

L. A. Edwards “Good Luck” – No, really, good luck…

Live Review: Lucinda Williams and Buick 6 + L.A. Edwards, The Barbican, London – 21st January 2023

L. A. Edwards “True Blue” (Independent, 2018)

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”