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AUK Mini-Gig Tribute: Luke Sital-Singh Sings John Prine

April 8, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

This morning we woke to the news that John Prine had died due to complications arising from Covid-19.  Prine is so revered for his song-writing and story-telling that many feel devastated by his passing and there […]

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Trudy & Dave “Out Of Our Minds” (Blue Mood Records, 2020)

April 8, 2020 Alan Fitter 0

Trudy & Dave’s debut album ‘Out Of Our Minds’ isn’t accurately speaking Americana as the band hail from Norway but Norwayicana doesn’t really work as a category (and is impossible to say) so if you’re looking […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Ron Pope

April 8, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

We are delighted to share another exclusive ‘mini-gig’ to help keep the music coming in these strange times.  Sharing great artists performing their songs is one small way we can help connect you to the outside […]

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Video Premiere: WhiteWater Ramble “Chaw”

April 8, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Check out the tongue-in-cheek new video from WhiteWater Ramble.  ‘Chaw’ is taken from ‘Pseudonymous’, the recent album release that covers a range of roots genres.  The album is the third studio recording from the group in […]

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Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton “Doc Watson and Gaither Carlton” (Smithsonian Folkways, 2020)

April 8, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

The New York folk scene of the early 1960s is one of those legendary moments in the history of popular music where an explosion of new talent mixed freely with the previously neglected talent of a […]

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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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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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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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Morton is yet another one of those Scotsmen who can deliver a well-crafted version of bluesy rock (see Tam White, Stevie Agnew, Jimmy Barnes), it’s in their working class bones you see. Well, that’s one myth […]

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With next month’s tour including St. Pancras Church having long-since sold out, and his new album “O Avalanche” out 1st November via Nettwerk Music Group, Fionn Regan has announced an extensive UK and Ireland tour for […]

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The new single from Magnolia & Johnson Electric Co. is, indeed, a big beast of a song. ‘The Big Beast‘ is intense and absorbing. In over six minutes of unresolved tension, rolling rhythms and pounding drums […]

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