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Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn to play UK dates

November 21, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
There are special gigs, there are rare gigs, there are gigs that are musical premieres.  Few upcoming gigs offer that combination in quite the same way as the 23rd January and 25th January 2020 appearances of […]
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Lucy Dacus “Fools Gold” – Listen

November 21, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Lucy Dacus has spent 2019 releasing holiday themed songs for all the biggies – Valentine’s Day, Mother’s Day, Independence Day, Bruce Springsteen’s Birthday.  All the big holidays.  Have you recovered from Springsteen’s Birthday yet?  That’s always […]
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Video: The Gary Douglas Band “Deep In The Water”

November 21, 2019 Jeremy Searle 0
Now here’s something important.  It’s the powerful new single from the Gary Douglas Band, just out, and it deals with the dreadful consequences of the DuPont Corporation dumping cancer-inducing chemicals in the Ohio river.  As well […]
Album Reviews

Wood Hitch “Wood Hitch EP” (Independent, 2019)

November 20, 2019 Jonathan Aird 0
Wood Hitch are Rose Shawhan and Brady Harris, who share vocal duties with Harris adding the music (apart from the drums ‘All Souls Day‘ which are by Steve McCarthy) and also writing the songs. This three-song […]
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Songs for the apocalypse: Grand Drive “No Doubt About It”

November 20, 2019 Mark Whitfield 3
One of the first people I came into any kind of regular contact with when I first began this AUK lark was Danny George Wilson who to anyone vaguely connected with the UK americana community is […]

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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]
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Michael Weston King “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

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Tragedy turned into thoughtful, considered, often uplifting songwriting. At the end of 2024, Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish shared their first artistic reactions to the loss of their granddaughter Bebe King, at Southport with a […]
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Preview: Joe Martin to release new record and play spring and autumn UK tours

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Singer-songwriter and AUK Twang Factor alumnus Joe Martin has announced the release of his second studio album, Alone in Valentine, via North Star Records on 17th April 2026, along with dates for UK tours in April […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

March 25, 2026 1
A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Anniversary Cheers: The Blasters re-release “Over There – Live at The Venue” and celebrate their 45th birthday

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45 years after their formation, The Blasters re-release the full concert at The Venue in London, with 11 additional tracks. Back in 1979 in America, a new band formed, gloriously ignoring the current musical trends of […]
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Fred Abbott + The Wild Unknown “Shining Under The Soot”

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A patchwork album which wears its rock credentials on its sleeve. Since Noah And The Whale split in 2015, their guitarist Fred Abbott has been busying himself working as a producer, writer and session player for […]
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Passenger “Runaway” (Black Crow, 2018)

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Passenger aka Mike Rosenberg has been writing songs with a prolificacy that would leave most other songwriters, Willie Nelson aside maybe, in the dust. He’s barely released a new record before another set of songs present […]

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