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Steve Earle “Christmas In Washington” – Listen

December 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 1

Well, the end of another year and time to look forward to Christmas and a New Year.  It can, after all, hardly be worse than 2020.  We hope.  So, let’s embrace unbridled optimism with Steve Earle’s […]

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Video Review of the Year 2020

December 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Well, what a year it’s been: a bitterly contested US Presidential election, the Black Lives Matter movement and a global pandemic that brought the world to a standstill.  The word ‘unprecedented’ must be the most well-used […]

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Anton O’Donnell wins ‘The Twang Factor’ 2020

December 23, 2020 Clint West 2

When we first came up with the idea for ‘The Twang Factor’ we were unsure what kind of response we would get. As it happens we need not have worried as we had very many entrants […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Lowell George “Thanks I’ll Eat It Here” (Warner Records, 1979)

December 23, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 4

Lowell George made this album, a melting pot of so many musical influences,  because apparently, he was not happy with the way that Little Feat was heading, as he saw it, into jazz-rock territory.  I can’t […]

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Book Review: Eric Wolfson “From Elvis in Memphis” (Bloomsbury Academic, 2020)

December 23, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 0

Rather like the proverbial buses, another of Bloomsbury’s 331/3 books arrives soon after the recent, ‘Murder Ballads’, volume.  Whereas, ‘Murder Ballads’, was a universal tale of musical history and folklore focussing on a particular album and artist, ‘From Elvis […]

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Ten to One: Cooper Kenward collects memories, good and bad

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L.A.-based singer/songwriter Cooper Kenward’s third album is called “haha, now I’m sad” (Soggy Anvil Records, 2025), and you could say its emotions are all over the place. The title hints at the intertwined duality of happy […]

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Interview: Talking about his new album, collaborations and spiritual connection with Jerry Joseph

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Jerry Joseph recently released “Panther Tracks, Vol. 1”, a raw, unflinching collection of songs that reflect his life, struggles, and triumphs. During Joseph’s recent UK tour, AUK’s Andrew Frolish spent some fascinating time with him over […]

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Interview: Liz Thomson on Greenwich Village, Joan Baez and the young Dylan

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The last year has seen Bob Dylan take the media by storm, something that started with the success of “A Complete Unknown”, a biopic that covered his career between 1961-1965, which was a critical and commercial […]

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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