Paul Kelly

Celebrating Gravy, Christmas and Long Distance Longing

December 24, 2020 Guy Lincoln 1

The big day has finally arrived and it’s time to pay brief but certain homage to the creator. Hold on a minute though, stand down from those keyboards and rest easy; we’re not 72 hours […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Paul Kelly “Little Kings”

October 23, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

King of the Pops Mr Villers is currently away holidaying while observing social distancing in his back garden, and while his normal eloquence will return next week, in his absence we briefly turn to Australian singer-songwriter […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Jim Finnie

October 22, 2020 Clint West 2

Welcome once again to AUK’s perilous expedition to identify the top 10 americana albums of all time. The process has generated some debate along the way, most recently concerning what actually constitutes ‘americana’. As far as […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Guy Lincoln

September 3, 2020 Clint West 1

At AUK we are on a quest to find the ‘top 10 americana albums ever’. Over the last few months our writers have been going through an internal monologue of constant torment in trying to narrow […]

Interview – Paul Kelly: “We are all incredibly interconnected”

August 6, 2020 Mark Whitfield 1

Paul Kelly is an Australian institution and one whose reputation is still building within the americana community thanks to his way with a good old fashioned song – it’s not for nothing that he’s been described […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 2

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers