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Steve Forbert is standing in the Early Morning Rain

April 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

Forty Two years on from his debut ‘Alive on Arrival‘, Steve Forbert is returning with his 21st Studio album.  And for only the second time in his career the new release is a collection of covers […]

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Jeff Karoub “All I’ve Got” – Listen

April 24, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

You’ve got to hate Jeff Karoub, listening to his new song ‘All I’ve Got‘, written as a response to the current situation and recorded at home with just his guitar and a few music app additions.  […]

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Video: Kornastone “Spin Me the World”

April 24, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Kornastone bring us the title track from their newly-released EP, ‘Spin Me the World’.  After forming in 2018, the wolverhampton-based group have released a full album, ‘Oh My Days’, as well as an EP.  They have […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: My Girl The River

April 23, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Lockdown continues.  Although we’re apart, we’re all in this together.  One of the things music lovers are missing is the opportunity to go out and see live shows.  To help make up for that, we are […]

Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Lucinda Williams “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” (Mercury, 1998)

April 23, 2020 Jim Finnie 0

In 1998 when ‘Car Wheels on a Gravel Road’ was released my musical tastes were much more rock-oriented and my gradual assimilation into all things Americana was really just beginning and I paid it scant attention […]

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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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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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