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Aren’t “For Love” – it was love, wasn’t it?

December 3, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Taken from the new EP ‘Creatures of Habit‘ Aren’t present a frail and tentative song which questions motives and explanations offered to the world and each other: “what if we tried, we did it for love” […]
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Video Premiere: Masorti “Something Better”

December 3, 2021 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out the video premiere of Masorti’s uptempo debut single ‘Something Better’.  Masorti features New York City-based singer-songwriter Philip Masorti, a former lawyer who took the brave step of leaving his practice in order to take […]
Interviews

How I Write A Song: Paul Kelly

December 2, 2021 Alasdair Fotheringham 1
As part of our occasional series of How I Write A Song as his new Christmas album comes out, AUK talked to one of Australia’s best-known singer-songwriters, Paul Kelly. Paul Kelly’s career now spans five decades […]
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Aoife O’Donovan “Age Of Apathy” – can you actually drown in beauty?

December 2, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
The title track of the Joe Henry produced album that will be out on January 21st via Yep Roc, and this is a song of some wonderment and beauty.  What did we say last time about […]
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Lachlan Bryan and the Wildes “As Long As It’s Not Us”

December 2, 2021 Richard Phillips 0
Darkness and light from the suburbs of Melbourne. Out of the South East suburbs of Melbourne, Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes have emerged to bring us a collection of songs that traverse through an emotional landscape […]

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Mary Gauthier “Reckoning”

September 22, 2026 2
One of our finest songwriters delivers an album for our times with consummate clarity and lyrical daring. Mary Gauthier was something of a late starter, delivering her first album when she was in her late thirties […]
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Sylvie finally make a full length debut which arrives in November

September 22, 2026 1
Sylvie, the project of Los Angeles artist Ben Schwab, has announced their forthcoming album, New Season, available November 6th, 2026, via Ghostly International. Rina (feat. Alex Amen) is the single out now. Reflecting on a passing […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Carey Ott

September 22, 2026 0
Carey Ott is nothing if not prolific. He hails from Chicago, and he’s a multi-instrumentalist, a producer and engineer and a performer. He’s released seven albums to date as well as numerous singles. In my music […]

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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
Interviews

Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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Video: Patterson Hood “The Forks of Cypress” (ft. Waxahatchee)

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The latest single from Drive By Truckers co-founder Patterson Hood is the beautifully-written, arranged and produced “The Forks of Cypress”.  The song, already epic-sounding, is enhanced by vocal accompaniment from the outstanding Waxahatchee (Katie Crutchfield); their […]
Live Reviews

Anderson East, Jazz Cafe, London, 30th May 2018

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London’s Jazz Cafe tonight replicated the steamy humidity of Anderson East’s Athens, Alabama roots on what was a sold out show for this artist who is described as  as being an R’nB singer, R’n’B in the […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Christy Moore “Motherland”

May 15, 2023 0
This week we go from Peter Churchill’s choice of Carter Sampson’s ‘Holy Mother’ to another song with a maternal reference written by Natalie Merchant in 2001. ‘Motherland’ was recorded by Merchant a few days before 11 […]

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