Laura Cantrell

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Number 4 – Laura Cantrell “Not the Tremblin’ Kind” (2000)

October 18, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

I have always hated bombast in music, and if I had to chose one part of americana broadly speaking that I can’t bear it’s that kind of Southern Rock dirge which is as far away from […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: The Shortlist

September 29, 2022 Clint West 8

We began our quest to find the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century’ way back in January. Since then, thirty AUK writers have offered up their own personal selections for readers to peruse. We […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Mark Whitfield

September 22, 2022 Mark Whitfield 7

Features Editor Clint West writes: Today we complete our writers’ choices of the ‘Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century’ with the selections of our founder, editor and guru Mark Whitfield. It’s been a fascinating […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Darren Lumbroso

April 14, 2022 Darren Lumbroso 1

In 1984 I discovered Elvis Costello. I quickly sought out his back catalogue. However, there was a problem. I couldn’t get my head around ‘Almost Blue’, his 1981 album of country covers. Aptly enough the album […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana albums of the 21st Century: Clint West

January 6, 2022 Clint West 7

AUK’s Features Editor Clint West introduces a new series for 2022 and then sets the ball rolling with his personal picks. When we chose ‘AUK’s Top 10 Albums Ever’ spread over 2020/2021 we found that 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”

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 […]

Tracks

Glorietta “Losers Lament” – Listen

September 3, 2018 0

Glorietta is a coming together of a group of friends – Noah Gundersen, Kelsey Wilson(Wild Child), David Ramirez, Grammy award winner Adrian Quesada (Brownout, Black Pumas), Jason Robert Blum and Matthew Logan Vasquez. Over the course of nine-day recording session in a […]

Album Reviews

Rob Corcoran “Inverse Alchemy” (Independent 2017)

January 4, 2018 0

An album of delicate playing, strong emotion and beautiful harmonised playing and singing. What more could a listener ask from an album. Not much, really. For the most part this is a collection of fully realised […]

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Our Man in the Field reimagine their debut “The Company of Strangers”

June 5, 2025 0

Ahead of a summer that includes a set on the Acoustic Stage at Glastonbury and a support slot for Neil Young at British Summer Time in London’s Hyde Park, Our Man in the Field are reissuing […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Number 4 – Laura Cantrell “Not the Tremblin’ Kind” (2000)

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: The Shortlist

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Mark Whitfield

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Darren Lumbroso

AUK’s Top 10 Americana albums of the 21st Century: Clint West

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”