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Bluegrass Briefs: Unspoken Tradition, Square Peg, Big Richard, New Valley String Band

April 14, 2026 Tim Martin 0
It’s been a while since we had a set of Bluegrass albums to review, which is a shame, as it’s a genre with a lot to offer. There are the traditionalists who keep very much to […]

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Anniversary Cheers: Dave Alvin “Blackjack David” celebrates 28 years

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Maddie Medley “Fawn’s Enemy”

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Remedy Tree “Train To Folkston” – we’re not in Kent anymore…

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Album Reviews

Bruce Cockburn “The Blood of Others”

October 14, 2026 0
An homage to the songs that shaped his long life, award-winning Canadian singer-songwriter and acoustic guitar maestro releases his 39th album. If you were asked to vote in a poll of the most activist artists in […]
Dave Alvin - Promo shot for album Eleven Eleven - January 2010
Anniversary Cheers

Anniversary Cheers: Dave Alvin “Blackjack David” celebrates 28 years

October 14, 2026 0
Dave Alvin’s Blackjack David, one of the great americana albums and now with added tracks, gets the Craft Recordings treatment. Hightone Records and Craft Recordings, celebrating its 40th anniversary, are in the process of re-releasing iconic […]
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Album Reviews

Maddie Medley “Fawn’s Enemy”

October 14, 2026 0
Original and challenging debut album of experimental indie-folk. Most likely Maddie Medley will be a new name to AUK’s esteemed audience, as it was to this reviewer. Her songwriting and captivating performances caught the eye of […]

  • Bruce Cockburn “The Blood of Others”
  • Anniversary Cheers: Dave Alvin “Blackjack David” celebrates 28 years
  • Maddie Medley “Fawn’s Enemy”
  • Remedy Tree “Train To Folkston” – we’re not in Kent anymore…
  • Video: Jack Barksdale “Battleground” Feat. Julian Taylor – the ills of money, power and influence
  • More People Really Should Know About: Roseanne Reid
  • Prinz Grizzley “Tilda”
  • Live Review: Emilia Quinn + Sophie Rose + Finola, Thornton Hough Village Club, Wirral – 25th September 2026
  • Interview: Wesley Stace “I’m never satisfied with my artistic output”
  • Sean Burns “Better Off In Time & Other Songs For The Dance Floor”
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Interview: Wesley Stace “I’m never satisfied with my artistic output”

October 13, 2026 0
Since his birth in Sussex in 1965, Wesley Stace has become a man of all colours, releasing 21 albums (17 under the nom de auteur-interprète John Wesley Harding), writing four books, organising the Cabinet of Wonders […]
Interviews

Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

October 1, 2026 0
The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
Interviews

Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]

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Videos

Video: Jerry Leger “Have You Ever Been Happy”

March 21, 2022 0
Leave it to Canadian songwriter, Jerry Leger, to ask an appropriate question of our times, in that simple Canadian way, as an omnipresent pandemic, eastern European war, divisive politics and more fill our collective days with […]
Album Reviews

Taylor Young Band “Mercury Transit”

October 21, 2021 0
Texas folk artist Taylor Young turns up the tempo but relaxes the vibe. The Taylor Young Band is from the 90s, and it never left. Timewarp is a concept that Americana and Country have never had […]
Album Reviews

Amos Lee “My New Moon” (Dualtone Records, 2018)

September 18, 2018 0
‘My New Moon’ Amos Lee’s seventh full length album (discounting the 2015 ‘Live at Red Rocks’ release with The Colorado Symphony) on which he continues to blend soul and jazz on a pallet of 1970s style […]

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