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Video: Lyle Lovett with Nanci Griffith “Closing Time”

September 1, 2017 Jeremy Searle 1

For this week’s retro slot we have a brilliant “before they were famous” performance from the last 1970s.  Footage quality isn’t great but this is a gem.

Features

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 up […]

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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 album […]

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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 and […]

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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 with […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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This new single from Jenny Owen Youngs was recorded during the sessions for her most recent album ‘Avalanche.‘  It’s a dreamy love song with an undercurrent of anxiety as Youngs sings: “Everybody’s having fun / Hoping […]

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