Features
Americana UK’s Top 20 albums of 2024: 20-11
So we have reached the end of another year here at AUK and the bombardment of new music has once again been relentless – we’ve been sent so much that it’s often difficult to keep up […]
Michael McDermott
Album Reviews
Michael McDermott “Lighthouse on the Shore” & “East Jesus”
The best singer-songwriter of his generation? – Discuss. Michael McDermott delivers an awesome twosome! “Michael McDermott is one of the finest singer-songwriters of this generation” – so said Stephen King after listening to McDermott’s third album […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: The Westies “West Side Stories”
Michael McDermott was first signed to a major label in 1991. A number of albums followed, the label dropped him and, in his own words “Those days are now just a wash of dreams of characters, […]
Album Reviews
Michael McDermott “St. Paul’s Boulevard”
Authentic heartland rock by a truly gifted songwriter. Michael McDermott is over thirty years into his career which started just as heartland rock was being overtaken by americana as the home for roots rockers. His music […]
Album Reviews
Michael McDermott “What in the World” (Pauper Sky Records, 2020)
With the release of ‘What in the World’ Michael McDermott continues the great run of musical form that has been a hallmark of his last three releases, and which started with what could be construed as […]