Willy Vlautin

Paperback Riders: Raymond Carver

November 8, 2024 Tim Martin 2

When our editor expressed a fondness for Raymond Carver some time ago, I added him to my list of subjects for investigation. Interviewing Willy Vlautin earlier this year his name came up just as I’d started […]

Interview: Willy Vlautin on novels, songwriting, guitars, and horses

June 21, 2024 Tim Martin 0

Willy Vlautin was at home just outside Portland Oregon when we spoke with him. Having just completed a tour supporting his latest novel ‘The Horse’ and preparing to come back for a short tour with the […]

Video Interview: Freddy Trujillo on “I Never Threw a Shadow at It” and touring the UK

June 6, 2024 Martin Johnson 2

Celebrating a family history that predates California’s annexation by America and Chicano rock. Thirty years of playing bass with Richmond Fontaine and the Delines means that Freddy Trujillo has been on his own musical journey that […]

Book Review: Willy Vlautin “The Horse”

May 30, 2024 Andy Davidson 0

On Richmond Fontaine’s 2016 ‘You Cant Go Back if There’s Nothing to Go Back To’, the album cover has a solitary, decrepit horse, standing forlornly in a landscape offering little comfort. It is a moribund picture but […]

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Readers’ Picks 11-20

February 29, 2024 Clint West 6

Welcome to Day 2 of our run down of you the readers’ selections. Yesterday we covered 30-21 and today we cover numbers 11-20. All but one of these selections also appeared in the AUK writers’ list. […]

Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

August 7, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm. We leave you dear reader with a new song from Nate Amos aka This […]

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0

At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

August 7, 2026 0

A powerful message that’s relayed with the kind of vigour and skill needed to make people sit up and listen. “In his oval room, in his rockin’ chair / He’s the president, but I don’t care […]

Paperback Riders: Raymond Carver

Interview: Willy Vlautin on novels, songwriting, guitars, and horses

Video Interview: Freddy Trujillo on “I Never Threw a Shadow at It” and touring the UK

Book Review: Willy Vlautin “The Horse”

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Readers’ Picks 11-20

Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012

The Wild High “Listen to The Wild High”