AUK continues its series looking at the musical tastes of AUK writers beyond the Americana genre. It all started with a double-album on a single cassette release of ‘Oxygene‘ and ‘Equinox‘. Here was the sound of […]
A glimpse of times to come. Phew, January’s a bastard. It’s cold, dark, hungover from December’s increasingly desperate joyousness and in the case of school, full of people shuffling from class to class coughing, wheezing and […]
A thoughtful 23 song collection comprising favourites and unreleased rarities Fruit Bats have been the vehicle to showcase the skills of Eric Donald Johnson for two decades, give or take the odd séjour performing as SDJ, […]
Probably the greatest, and definitely the most influential, country music piano player of all time. The piano may be a ubiquitous part of the classic country sound, but this has not always been the case. In […]
Oldest and eldest and river woman’s daughter they may not be, but Sarah Frank and Luke Fraser were inspired by Tolkien’s Bombadil and Goldberry when choosing a name for their folk duo. Their folk is also […]
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