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Amanda Cook “My Used To Be Blue Ridge Mountain Home” – Listen

April 23, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

The latest single from the excellent album ‘Narrowing the Gap‘ (read the review here) is a co-write by Amanda Cook and Carolyne Van Lierop Boone.  It’s a nostalgic song, as you might expect, looking back on […]

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Video Premiere: Richie Furay “A Man Like Me”

April 23, 2021 Andrew Frolish 1

Here is a wonderful performance of ‘A Man Like Me’ that will have you tapping your feet and singing along.  Richie Furay remains an incredible, energetic live performer with a powerful, melodic voice that lifts a […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Cowboy Junkies albums

April 22, 2021 Tim Martin 4

In both of AUK’s best albums ever polls The Cowboy Junkies ‘The Trinity Session’ scored highly, finishing at number 12 for the writers, and number 18 for our readers. For a group whose style is often […]

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Leftover Salmon “Brand New Good Old Days” – Listen

April 22, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0

When Drew Emmitt’s Left Hand String Band did some gigs with Vince Herman’s cajun-jug band Salmon Heads they needed a combined band name – “Had we known it was going to last this long we could […]

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StevieRay Latham & The Nomads of Industrial Suburbia “Letters From Suburbia”

April 22, 2021 Peter Tomkins 0

Exploring the dark underbelly of suburbia through gothic alt-folk. This final EP of a trilogy finds StevieRay Latham in experimental and artistic territory, playing with the concepts of the dark, gothic underbelly of suburbia. Opening with […]

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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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Bella White’s made quite a splash with her debut album ‘Just Like Leaving‘ which marked out the teenage White as a distinctive new talent in bluegrass and adjacent folk.  For her follow up ‘Among Other Things‘ […]

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A couple of weeks ago we’d have said “not around here it doesn’t“, but, well, times change, don’t they though ?   On his new single ‘It Rains‘ Archie Faulks has crafted a string rich ballad that’s […]

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