Michele Stodart

“I’ll Take You There” documentary premieres today on YouTube

March 12, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Alabama’s Musical and Civil Rights legacy takes centre stage in a brand new documentary film entitled I’ll Take You There: Discovering the Sound of Alabama, which premieres today at 8 pm GMT on YouTube. The cast […]

Julian Taylor live at the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, 8th August 2025

Live Review: Julian Taylor + Michele Stodart, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 8th August 2025

August 18, 2025 Graeme Tait 4

One of the advantages of having caught the music bug at such an early age is that I have been privileged to witness some of the world’s finest artists, musicians, and singer-songwriters from the last six […]

Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 4th-6th July 2025

July 31, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Maverick, Maverick, so good we’ve reviewed it twice. While our accredited reporter, Andrew Frolish, has turned in his extensive review of the latest Maverick Festival, another AUK writer, John Lee, was also there and has kindly […]

Preview: Static Roots Festival, Oberhausen, Germany 10th -12th July 2025

June 12, 2025 Richard Parkinson 1

Germany’s premier americana gathering is entering its 9th year with an expanded venue and extended programming. With its signature “living room atmosphere”, Static Roots made the decision to expand into a larger room within Oberhausen’s Zentrum […]

Live Preview: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 4th–6th July 2025

April 29, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

A highlight in the Americana musical calendar is always the annual Maverick Festival in Suffolk. The first Americana festival in the UK, Maverick has been attracting audiences to the barns of Easton Farm Park since 2008. […]

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Whiskeytown - Strangers Almanac
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Wilco - summerteeth
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Matthew Sweet - 100% Fun
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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 […]

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

March 23, 2026 0

An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

March 23, 2026 0

An album with some credible moments and interesting songs which lay the foundations for his solo career. Country music can divide opinion at the best of times. It’s praised for its tropes and cliches as often […]

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 […]

Book Reviews

Book Review: Willy Vlautin “The Horse”

May 30, 2024 0

On Richmond Fontaine’s 2016 ‘You Cant Go Back if There’s Nothing to Go Back To’, the album cover has a solitary, decrepit horse, standing forlornly in a landscape offering little comfort. It is a moribund picture but […]

Tracks

Tim Carr “Take Me There” – Listen

June 5, 2018 0

The thing about being a jazz drummer is that it pretty much ensures that there’ll be more interesting rhythm’s to one’s music. Which explains some of Tim Carr’s lead track from his upcoming EP ‘Swing & […]

Tracks

The Hangmen “Midnight Riders” – staying true to the end

September 20, 2023 0

Whether The Hangmen regarded themselves as Americana when they formed in 1986 is questionable – but this new release which sees the band staying true to their own musical heritage has file under Americana written all […]

“I’ll Take You There” documentary premieres today on YouTube

Live Review: Julian Taylor + Michele Stodart, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 8th August 2025

Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 4th-6th July 2025

Preview: Static Roots Festival, Oberhausen, Germany 10th -12th July 2025

Live Preview: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 4th–6th July 2025

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”

Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”

Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “Open Door”