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Video: Neil Young & Promise of the Real “Children of Destiny”

July 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

We occasionally sneak an extra video in to our daily dose for you when it’s as epic as this new track from Neil Young and band, which features a 56 piece orchestra (but no kazoo). According […]

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John Mellencamp: “Really I’m a Socialist” – Watch

July 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 3

Welcome to the club John!  Always ahead of his time politically and joining a growing movement of US citizens who are kind of disenchanted with the last 40 years, this is an interesting interview from CBS […]

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Jim Lauderdale talks about Liverpool (yay) and his new album

July 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

The more astute AUK reader may know what we’re a Liverpool based website, a city which doesn’t come up too often in americana circles so it’s nice when it does.  RS Country report this morning: “Jim Lauderdale […]

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Juanita Stein “I’ll Cry” – Listen

July 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

I’ll Cry is the latest single to be taken from “America”, the debut solo album by Brighton based Juanita Stein, available on the Nude label from the 28th July. Already well known as the singer-songwriter with Howling […]

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Holy Moly and The Crackers “Salem” (Pink Lane Records, 2017)

July 3, 2017 Rick Bayles 0

Holy Moly indeed! There’s a lot of exciting music on this new release from North East Folk Rockers, Holy Moly and the Crackers, as they move away from their earlier folk-oriented material and explore a darker and […]

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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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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Classic Clips: Bobbie Gentry “Ode to Billie Joe” – BBC, 1968

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Classic clips might not get any more classic than this one. In the summer of 1967, a smoky Southern voice drifted out of transistor radios and into the American consciousness with a story that refused to […]

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