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Essentials: A ten song americana trip through California

February 20, 2025 Richard Parkinson 1

The Golden State is one of the geographical pillars of country and roots music giving rise to the Bakersfield sound, acid folk, country rock, the Paisley underground and much more. In 2023, the Country Music Hall of […]

Something for the weekend: Phosphorescent “Any Old Miracle”

June 24, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it for another week dear reader. We haven’t been sent it for review but we can’t recommend the new Paul Kelly collection ‘Time’ enough. If you don’t know who he is yet, cancel all your […]

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Jonathan Aird

April 28, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

One looks back at the last 22 years (we’re allowing 2000 as part of the 21st Century – I know, I know, I feel your pain fellow numerists) and it has to be admitted that there […]

Something for the weekend: Phosphorescent “I’m A Mess”

March 4, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a track from an amazing new idea from Matthew Houck’s country-rock band Phosphorescent called The Full Moon Project, so called because […]

A Night to Remember – End of the Road Festival 2010, Saturday afternoon Garden Stage

March 30, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0

No sooner have we created a format than troublesome writers begin to undermine and twist the brief. This night to remember was no night at all but a glorious, sun-splashed, hazy afternoon at the fag end […]

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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 […]

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 […]

Interviews

Interview: Shovels & Rope on making records, touring and obsessing over Sharon Van Etten

January 24, 2020 0

Husband and wife duo Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst, Shovels & Rope, based in Charleston, South Carolina released their new album, ‘By Blood’ on Dualtone last year to great critical acclaim. They even feature in their […]

Features

10 songs about infidelity

February 16, 2021 0

Americana is known for its realism and acceptance of the vagaries of ordinary life, which certainly doesn’t lack drama and complications. Americana does not judge! No matter what your moral dilemma is, whatever stupid and ill-advised […]

Videos

Video: Miko Marks “I’ll Cry for Yours”

July 12, 2024 0

Wow – what a vocal performance. Miko Marks displays her range, control and the sheer emotional quality of her voice in ‘I’ll Cry for Yours’. Her delivery is so authentic and full of feeling that this […]

Essentials: A ten song americana trip through California

Something for the weekend: Phosphorescent “Any Old Miracle”

AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Jonathan Aird

Something for the weekend: Phosphorescent “I’m A Mess”

A Night to Remember – End of the Road Festival 2010, Saturday afternoon Garden Stage

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”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”