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Paul Bond “Sunset Blues” – Guitar and vocal folk perfection

July 5, 2021 Jonathan Aird 1

Oh, there’s some joyful singer-songwriter perfection on ‘Sunset Blues‘ which is a new single by Paul Bond.  There’s a definite gentle James Taylor feeling to it, and shows Paul Bond making his own music having previously […]

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Video: Emily Barker & Frank Turner “Bound for Home”

July 5, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0

When Emily Barker’s voice soars, it seems so effortless and the tone is so beautiful and clear that the listener is utterly absorbed into the song and the moment.  Once again, Barker’s performance is captivating in […]

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Something for the weekend: Midland “Sunrise Tells the Story”

July 2, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader and we leave you with a band which skirt around the edges of Americana to the point that we’ve not featured them before but hey it’s a Friday […]

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Clint’s Classic Clips: Steve Goodman “The City of New Orleans” The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972

July 2, 2021 Clint West 6

An early performance from the talented Chicago songwriter who died of leukemia in 1984, aged just 36. The Old Grey Whistle Test first broadcast in 1971 and ran through to 1987 when Janet Street-Porter, the BBC’s […]

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Video: Rodney Crowell – “Triage”

July 2, 2021 Cam Fraser 1

Rodney Crowell meditates on love and life as he takes a sombre walk through Nashville’s neglected back streets. Since moving to Nashville in 1972, Rodney Crowell has held onto his place at the top-table of Americana […]

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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”

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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”

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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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Our latest Short Cuts, an occasional feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]

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Years ago, 17 in fact, I put on an event in what was then the Masque venue in Liverpool called “Americana One” celebrating the fact that this little website (and it was little back then) was […]

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This is a rather lovely thing from Monica Queen and Johnny Smillie aka Tenement & Temple.  It’s taken from their debut album which will be out in the summer.

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