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AUK album premiere: Mark Olson “Spokeswoman of the Bright Sun” – Listen

August 31, 2017 Mark Whitfield 1

We’re delighted to be able to premiere the new album today from americana legend Mark Olson. “Spokeswoman of The Bright Sun” comes out on 1st September 2017 (that’s tomorrow, date fans) and is the follow […]

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New Joana Serrat album due next month

August 31, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

The lovely Joana Serrat (with one ‘n’) has a new record our next month called “Dripping Springs” which would be so much worse an album title with the word “and” in it.  For her fourth […]

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David Ramirez “We’re Not Going Anywhere” (Thirty Tigers, 2017)

August 31, 2017 Owen Gillham 0

Given the current climate, this is, at least in part, an album that resonates by painting a picture of a broken, divided world which is conflicted and uncertain. David Ramirez is a clever fellow though […]

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Track premiere: Becky Warren “I’m Leaving” – Listen

August 31, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

  Nashville singer songwriter Becky Warren’s debut solo album “War Surplus” is out now, the tale of a relationship between an Iraq bound soldier (Scott) and his girlfriend (June), and she’s sharing a bonus track […]

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Video: The Harpoonist & the Axe Murderer “Get Ready”

August 31, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

Now this is a fine coming together of a great band name, a great song and a great video.  Apparently classed as blues, which seems a bit limiting, it’s just fabulous.

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Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings All The Good Times 2021

Gillian Welch “All the Good Times”

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Not the most sparkling selection of songs but well made by an established pair. This collection contains songs by Bob Dylan, John Prine, Elizabeth Cotten and Norman Blake, as well as new arrangements of traditional [...]
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Curtis McMurtry “Toothless Messiah”

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A mysterious, haunting and powerful album that deals with a pessimistic view on life The sinister and mysterious LP, ‘Toothless Messiah‘, from Austin resident Curtis McMurtry, is a brilliant take on dictatorship, oppression and greed, [...]
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Rick Shea “Love and Desperation”

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Cali-country veteran ponders life to an accordion-driven soundtrack We Brits might call Rick Shea an Angeleno, his press might style him as a Covina singer-songwriter but when it comes down to it this, his 9th [...]
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Corner House “Caribou Party”

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A fresh take on earthy old-time string music and Celtic folk from Boston quartet Corner House Corner House are a young string band quartet based in New England, with Ethan Setiawan on mandolin and mandola, [...]
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XIXA “Genesis”

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A glorious trip through the dark underbelly of Tucson desert rock First off. Who on earth could resist a band who list as influences, ‘70s Spaghetti Westerns and ‘80s horror films, Edgar Allan Poe and [...]

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We’re back with another article in our Unsung Heroes of Americana series and, this time out, Gordon Sharpe pitches in with an informative piece about an influential record label that punched well above its weight: […]

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Gillian Welch “All the Good Times”

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Not the most sparkling selection of songs but well made by an established pair. This collection contains songs by Bob Dylan, John Prine, Elizabeth Cotten and Norman Blake, as well as new arrangements of traditional […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower”

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My esteemed colleague Alan Fitter set last weeks link in our long, long chain. With Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright he gave us not just sibling harmonies but parental – mother & daughter harmonies. Well, […]

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Curtis McMurtry “Toothless Messiah”

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A mysterious, haunting and powerful album that deals with a pessimistic view on life The sinister and mysterious LP, ‘Toothless Messiah‘, from Austin resident Curtis McMurtry, is a brilliant take on dictatorship, oppression and greed, […]

Track Premiere: Kurt Deemer Band “Rain”

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The new release by the Kurt Deemer Band is unlike most Covid albums you may have heard, predominantly becuase the “band” part has not been tuned down at all.  Not that we’ve anything against scratchy […]

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