Six decades of experience inform lyrical début of Canadian folk-roots songwriter. A new name to our readers, Mike Guiney released his début album The Grace of Eloquence at the age of 61 in 2025. Now ...

We have mentioned before that Folk is a broad church, and we’ve hinted that it can be at its best, or at least its most interesting, when it pushes at the boundaries. And, sometimes, that pushing ...

The last time The Redlands Palomino Company got a mention in AUK was in 2018, when they released a cover of Springsteen’s Mansion on the Hill. Since then, there seems to have been an attempt to get ...

The new single from Nashville-based singer-songwriter Bre Kennedy and Tenille Townes opens with subtlety and graceful restraint. The Pen begins with an echoing, repeated phrase on the guitar that we ...

It’s been a while; please forgive me. In this day and age, you can do just about anything you want, anywhere, so I could have posted these missives whilst sojourning down under, but we made a ...

Well that’s it from us for this week, a week in which we said goodbye to our longtime writers Paul Kerr and Martin Johnson, both of whom died at a very similar age within a few days of each other, ...

A second tribute album to the songs of the great Jesse Malin. There can’t be many Americana music fans who weren’t deeply ...

Some musicians write memoirs to settle scores. Others write them to inflate their legend. Chris Hillman, who has spent most of his career standing slightly to one side of the spotlight, seems to ...

Zach Williams, Kanene Donehey Pipkin and Brian Elmquist, collectively The Lone Bellow, came into being when Georgia natives, ...

A hugely enjoyable and melodic offering from established Texan band. In the period 2010 to 2022, Texan band Left Arm Tan ...

Well, this is a bit different from the usual gig experience, and definitely a new venue: the launch of the latest LUSH album, Best Day Of All Time, was at its Oxford Street premiere store, with ...

Keith’s back from down under with the podcast firing with both barrels, featuring, as it does two interviews with artists ...