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Something for the weekend: Woody Guthrie “This Land is Your Land”

May 1, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0

Happy May Day comrades – a day that we should celebrate this year of all years given the sacrifices so many frontline workers are making at the moment. Showing appreciation through clapping is cathartic and an […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Matt Hill (AKA Quiet Loner)

May 1, 2020 Andrew Frolish 1

Our series of mini-gigs continues with an exclusive show from Matt Hill, formerly known by his stage name, Quiet Loner.  In an incredibly varied career, Hill has co-written an album with people at a homeless project, […]

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Ten covers of Bob Dylan’s ‘To Ramona’

May 1, 2020 Richard Phillips 6

The original track ‘To Ramona’ is taken from Dylan’s fourth album ‘Another Side of Bob Dylan’, released in 1964. This release saw Dylan shift away from the previously politically orientated, ‘The Times They Are a-Changin’’ to […]

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Video: Rosa Tu “The Swamp”

May 1, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

This is the heart-breaking tale of an old man and an orphan, finding and supporting one another through their loneliness.  This is finely-balanced, sorrowful storytelling with a tragic ending.  The song is accompanied by a well-realised […]

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Ariel Sharratt & Mathias Kom “Never Work” (BB Island, 2020)

May 1, 2020 Scott Baxter 0

Initially due for release on 3rd April, this terrific album was delayed due to a global pandemic, so was pushed back to International Workers Day which, given this once in a lifetime occurrence, has made the […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

February 17, 2026 0

Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

February 12, 2026 1

If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Americana UK’s Top 20 Albums of 2023: Part One, 20-11

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Here at AUK Towers, like all loving families, we fight – a lot – over who has used the last of the milk, left the washing up in the sink, accidentally locked the cat in the […]

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Unsung Heroes of Americana – Robert’s Western World, Nashville

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There are many wonderful venues in Nashville; the Ryman Auditorium, the Bluebird Café, the Opry itself, but perhaps one of the most unusual, and largely unsung, is Robert’s Western World. Robert’s Western World is a honky-tonk […]

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The Twang Factor 4 Presents: Steve Hewitt

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Our next contestant in the Twang Factor 4 series is Steve Hewitt, a singer-songwriter hailing from Kent. Inspired by an eclectic array of artists including David Gray, Bob Dylan, Blaze Foley, Fink, Townes Van Zandt and John Legend, Hewitt has evolved into a […]

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