The Long Ryders

I am Night Witch: Swooping over the devastation just one more time – Jon Aird’s Review of 2023

December 21, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Surely this is it, no? After 13…soon to be 14…years of doing nothing this must be the last Christmas for a decade at least in which we’ll have to suffer the ineptitude of a government that […]

Video: The Long Ryders “I Want You Bad”

August 11, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

It’s retro Friday and what a wonderful, upbeat way to start your day. Here’s the classic ‘I Want You Bad’ from music legends The Long Ryders. This single, a cover of the NRBQ original, is from […]

Classic Clips: The Long Ryders “Lights of Downtown” Under the Apple Tree Sessions 2017

June 2, 2023 Clint West 0

Like many AUK readers I was privileged to see The Long Ryders on their recent UK tour, in Leeds in my case. This coincided with me also delving through some of the back catalogue of AUK […]

Live Review: The Long Ryders + Autumn Saints, 229, London – 20th May 2023

June 2, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

A gig by The Long Ryders is always going to be an event, that goes without saying, and anyone who thinks that this writer is going to be approaching such an event without a keen anticipation […]

Video: Stephen McCarthy & Carla Olson “Night Comes Falling”

October 3, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Here is the title track from a new collaborative album from Stephen McCarthy and Carla Olson. The pair have a hugely influential history in the music industry, with McCarthy having starred in Long Ryders, Jayhawks and […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

News

Walled Garden Music Festival announced for July

February 4, 2020 0

Nottingham’s Cosmic American Music has teamed up with the historic Thoresby Park in Sherwood Forest to curate a brand new Americana and Roots festival within the grounds of the estate in North Nottinghamshire, a stone’s throw […]

Album Reviews

Birds of Play “Bird Songs of the American West”

August 9, 2023 0

The traditional string band updated for the 21st century, with contemplative words over a magical blend of instruments. Birds of Play call themselves “an Americana Roots quartet based in the San Juan Mountains of Southwestern Colorado”. […]

Album Reviews

Silver Synthetic “Rosalie”

April 24, 2025 0

Silver Synthetic’s sophomore effort is a wonderfully disparate jumble of genres. The primary influence of “Rosalie,” the second album by New-Orleans’ Silver Synthetic, may be Josh Rouse’s “1970” and “Nashville” discs from the mid-2000s. It immediately […]

I am Night Witch: Swooping over the devastation just one more time – Jon Aird’s Review of 2023

Video: The Long Ryders “I Want You Bad”

Classic Clips: The Long Ryders “Lights of Downtown” Under the Apple Tree Sessions 2017

Live Review: The Long Ryders + Autumn Saints, 229, London – 20th May 2023

Video: Stephen McCarthy & Carla Olson “Night Comes Falling”

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”