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Glenn Frey “Above The Clouds” (Geffen/USM 2018)

June 6, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

Glenn Frey will forever be associated with the Eagles, the band he formed with Don Henley and which came to define Country Rock in the 1970s. Sadly, Glenn was one of the flurry of musicians that […]

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Video: I’m Kingfisher “Sarajevo”

June 6, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

A delicate and lovely song from I’m Kingfisher (known a long time ago as Thomas Denver Jonsson), taken from his new album Transit (Fading Trails Recordings) which we at AUK liked very much indeed.

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The Small Glories, The Green Note, London, 31st May 2018

June 5, 2018 David Allen 0

Whilst it may feel like an extension of your own living room, an instantly familiar and cosy space, the unassuming exterior of The Green Note music venue belies its ability to attract the very best acoustic […]

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The Mallett Brothers Band “Vive L’Acadie!” (Acadia Recording, 2018)

June 5, 2018 Linda Jameson 0

Can you ever have too much whiskey? Well, probably, but not if you are in The Mallett Brothers Band. The tracks on ‘Vive L’Acadie!’ are steeped in it. For a band from Maine, it’s just as […]

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Tim Carr “Take Me There” – Listen

June 5, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

The thing about being a jazz drummer is that it pretty much ensures that there’ll be more interesting rhythm’s to one’s music.  Which explains some of Tim Carr’s lead track from his upcoming EP ‘Swing & […]

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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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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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Isobel Campbell takes on the patriarchy on her latest single ‘Everything Falls Apart’.  This is the second single from her forthcoming album ‘Bow to Love’ due 17th May on Cooking Vinyl Records. “My elegy to the […]

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