Merle Haggard

AUK’s Chain Gang: The Everly Brothers “Mama Tried”

January 21, 2021 Martin Johnson 0

The Everly Brothers, a Merle Haggard country hit and the emergence of country rock Last week’s Chain Gang brought us The Secret Sisters ‘Late Bloomer’ which is a modern version of a sound that goes back […]

Classic Americana Compilations: “Tulare Dust – A Songwriter’s Tribute to Merle Haggard” (Hightown Records, 1994)

March 27, 2020 Rick Bayles 1

Merle Haggard has always been categorised as one of the great American Country Singers but, when it comes to songwriting, his talents are often overlooked. So, when a bunch of top Americana singers and songwriters came […]

Video: Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson “Pancho and Lefty”

January 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

This week’s retro video is a true classic written by the legendary Townes Van Zandt. If you watch closely, you might spot Van Zandt making an appearance or two in the video! As you would expect, […]

Book Review: Rachel Lee Rubin “Okie From Muskogee” (33 1/3 Bloomesbury Academic, 2018)

November 16, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

First things first. If you haven’t discovered the excellent 33 1/3 series of books from Bloomsbury Publishing you’re seriously missing out. This is a series of short books about popular music and it focuses on individual […]

Bonnie ‘Prince’ talks Merle Haggard

May 8, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Let’s face it, he’s probably still not going to beat Mel B’s version of “Word Up” in terms of classic covers but good on him for having a go. Rolling Stone reports: “Imagine arranging Merle Haggard’s […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

Tracks

Mince Pie Mondays – are these vegan?

December 9, 2024 1

What’s going on? Isn’t Mince Pie Mondays a bit like Solstice Songs Thursdays, a last-minute attempt to use up the late-arriving seasonal songs so no one feels like the child that Santa forgot? A sort of […]

Album Reviews

Tom Jenkins “When The Coal Dust Settled”

May 8, 2025 0

Tom Jenkins returns with a powerful study of post-industrial Wales. Whilst working as a contract sheep shearer across the hill farms of Wales, Tom Jenkins wrote poems inspired by the stories of his fellow workers and […]

Features

Rob Clamp wins The Twang Factor 3

February 17, 2023 1

As outlined in yesterday’s runners-up announcement, The Twang Factor 3 was a very close affair but in the end Southampton-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rob Clamp won it by a nose from runners-up Sunsinger and the […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: The Everly Brothers “Mama Tried”

Classic Americana Compilations: “Tulare Dust – A Songwriter’s Tribute to Merle Haggard” (Hightown Records, 1994)

Video: Merle Haggard & Willie Nelson “Pancho and Lefty”

Book Review: Rachel Lee Rubin “Okie From Muskogee” (33 1/3 Bloomesbury Academic, 2018)

Bonnie ‘Prince’ talks Merle Haggard

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”

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