Steve Earle

Steve Earle & The Dukes “Ghosts Of West Virginia” (New West Records, 2020)

May 21, 2020 Paul Kerr 0

There’s nothing like a cause to get Steve Earle all fired up so when he was approached to write a set of songs for a theatre production about 29 miners killed in a coal dust explosion […]

The top ten Americana duets

April 29, 2020 Paul Villers 4

In these trying times we can think of nothing better here at AUK than knocking out Top Ten’s of this, that and the other. Indeed every man and his wife (or every wife and her husband […]

Here are ten songs written about other artists. The list below is not the final word, but represents the start of a conversation. The idea is to explore some of our favourite artists singing about other […]

Steve Earle returns with new album “Ghosts of West Virginia”

February 28, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Steve Earle & The Dukes have announced the release ‘Ghosts of West Virginia’ due out on May 22nd, 2020 via New West Records – you can hear the first track from it below. The album was […]

“What is this Americana thing anyway…?” – Clint West

January 16, 2020 Paul Villers 3

Time for another in our series looking at the routes our writers have taken into Americana and just what it is that makes it our favourite genre. This week we are warmed by Clint West’s pathological […]