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Month: October 2019

Live Reviews

Richard Thompson – 70th Birthday Celebration, Royal Albert Hall, London, 30th September 2019

October 14, 2019 Claire Stones 1
When you’ve had a career  such as Richard Thompson’s, supreme songwriter and guitar virtuoso, with many fellow musicians as fans, your 70th Birthday bash, of course, has to be held at the Royal Albert Hall. On […]
Videos

Video: May Erlewine “Whole Again”

October 14, 2019 Jeremy Searle 1
Now this is a powerful song.  Written in support of the Me Too movement, and in particular Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, it’s timely and important.  It’s out as a single and will also be on her […]
Videos

Video: The Avett Brothers “Tell The Truth”

October 11, 2019 Mark Whitfield 2
We leave you this week dear reader in a similar place to the way we left you last week, with The Avett Brothers (whose name, thanks to this clip, I now realise I have been mispronouncing […]
Album Reviews

Del Barber “Easy Keeper” (Acronym, 2019)

October 11, 2019 Mike Elliott 1
Too often these days, when an artist tries on the sound of the past he may get the music right – using all the proper amps, vintage guitars, analog equipment and such – and still not […]
Features

Pick of the Political Pops: Quiet Loner “The Captain’s Diseased”

October 11, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0
It’s funny to think that when Quiet Loner recorded this song back in 2013 that we’d have had another two captains by the end of the decade but both essentially steering the same course, and each […]

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Levi Foster “Appalachian Funk Tree”

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Album Reviews

Levi Foster “Appalachian Funk Tree”

September 23, 2026 0
Levi Foster takes his yarn-spinning country tunes to the heart of Hollywood. After two EPs and the success of his critically-acclaimed first album, We Made Fire, the Nashville-based singer-songwriter who draws his inspiration from the likes […]
Tracks

Margo Cilker “Molly & Me” – and the devil’s right hand

September 23, 2026 0
Molly & Me is the latest single from the upcoming album from Margo Cilker, Little White Cross, which is out on October 9th via Fossil Records. Molly & Me starts out as a story about a teenage friendship […]
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Video: Bird “The Lady Who Reads The Cards” – a strange but beautiful spiritual encounter

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Here’s the latest single from multi-instrumentalist and songwriter Bird, aka Janie Price. The Lady Who Reads The Cards is a catchy song, full of melodic hooks that showcase the range of Bird’s clear, controlled voice. Co-written […]

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  • Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November
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Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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If ever there was a musician made to play one of AUK’s exclusive mini-gigs, that would be Kevin Daniel. This is a musician I’d go to see anytime he has a gig that’s within reasonable driving […]

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