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Amanda Palmer & Rhiannon Giddens “It’s A Fire” – Listen

September 29, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Amanda “F@cking” Palmer and Rhiannon “I accept this award” Giddens have teamed up to record a version of the Portishead song ‘It’s a Fire‘ to raise money to support the Free Black University Fund.  The song […]
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Video: Austin Lucas “Already Dead”

September 29, 2020 Andrew Frolish 1
Ahead of his new album, ‘Alive in the Hot Zone!’, due out on 30th October, Austin Lucas has released a timely new single. 2020 has been one hell of a year and this is Lucas’s response. […]
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Ned Hill “By The Light of The Radio” (Whistlepig Records, 2020)

September 28, 2020 Ljubinko Zivkovic 0
The moment first notes of ‘Lonely Heart of Mine,’ the opener of ‘By The Light of The Radio’, the new album by Nashville ‘old hand’ Ned Hill hit the speakers, one word immediately comes to mind […]
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Johnny Cash classics get reimagined by Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

September 28, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
Columbia and Legacy Recordings have announced the release of ‘Johnny Cash and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra’ which lands in the UK on November 13th. Produced by Nick Patrick and Don Reedman and recorded at Abbey Road […]
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Video: Bruce Springsteen “Ghosts”

September 28, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
The latest single from Bruce Springsteen launches immediately into a forceful drum pattern, laying the foundations for a powerful song about a life of love and loss, surrounded by music.  Springsteen explains: “‘Ghosts’ is about the beauty […]

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AUK celebrates with an event in Liverpool city centre on Saturday November 28th. Well, unbelievably, it was a quarter of a century ago that Americana UK first came into existence as a one-man operation run from a […]
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There are very few artists who are as consistently excellent across a whole career as Lyle Lovett. He marries sharp, witty observations with immaculate musicianship, starting with his eponymous debut record and going right up to […]
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Here we are in March, and spring has well and truly sprung in this part of the northern hemisphere, after what had felt like endless weeks of grey days and continuous precipitation. So, what better way […]

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

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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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AUK’s Top 10 Albums of the 21st Century: Number 6 – Sturgill Simpson “Metamodern Sounds in Country Music” (2014)

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Sturgill Simpson has taken americana to new places – some of them not always comfortable ones. His 2019 synthesised psychedelic blues-rock album ‘Sound and Fury’ certainly divided opinion. However, ‘Metamodern Sounds in Country Music’ was a much more widely […]
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Video Premiere: Nathan Jacques “Drifting”

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Nathan Jacques’ new single, ‘Drifting’, begins with ethereal, sliding notes, immediately engaging the listener in a song that is, quite simply, beautiful.  This is stuff to get lost in.  At over six minutes, the song allows the […]
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