Whiskeytown

AUK’s Chain Gang: Whiskeytown “16 Days”

June 27, 2022 Tim Martin 0

Great, this feature has turned into a drinking game. So after Rick Bayles offered us Mary Gauthier’s reflection on drink and its perils, where else do we end up but Whiskeytown? I thought about playing ‘Dancing […]

Clint’s Classic Clips: Whiskeytown “Houses on the Hill” Austin City Limits 1998

July 16, 2021 Clint West 1

Ryan Adams’ trailblazing ‘alt-country’ band captured live at the peak of their powers. Even though he has fallen from grace in recent years and the ‘person v their art’ debate has been had, if not resolved, […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Gordon Sharpe

October 15, 2020 Clint West 15

This week Gordon Sharpe provides the twentieth contribution to AUK’s continuing quest to find the top ten americana albums ever. As always it is a fascinating and educative experience as Gordon delves into the back catalogue […]

What Is This Americana Thing Anyway…?

September 10, 2019 Paul Villers 1

Our occasional feature on the whys and wherefores of Americana is back – this time featuring prolific writer and former metal fiend turned Gram Parson aficionado Mark Underwood. He once upon a time used to write […]

Songs for the apocalypse: Whiskeytown “Houses on the Hill”

August 14, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

It’s sobering to think that North Carolina band Whiskeytown formed 25 years ago now, and while they’re best known for being Ryan Adams’ first project, they were more than the sum of their parts and very […]

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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 […]

Album Reviews

John Hewitt “Which Side Are You On?”

March 26, 2025 0

Alberta troubadour’s latest – a one man band with masterful lyrics. John Hewitt is a truly committed musician – he’s been playing guitar since he was nine years old and he’s immersed himself in the roots […]

Album Reviews

Only Child “Straight Lines”

April 21, 2022 1

A strong outing that proves Americana can thrive just as much in the North West of England as it can in the American South. Liverpool might not seem like the most likely of places for an […]

Political Pops

Pick of the Political Pops: 10CC “The Sacro Illiac”

February 22, 2019 0

Our eagle-eyed reader (we’ve established that there is one of you) will remember that last week we were somewhat nervous at being summoned unto the company of The Big Boss Editor. Fear not gentle reader – […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Whiskeytown “16 Days”

Clint’s Classic Clips: Whiskeytown “Houses on the Hill” Austin City Limits 1998

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Gordon Sharpe

What Is This Americana Thing Anyway…?

Songs for the apocalypse: Whiskeytown “Houses on the Hill”

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”