You might, not unreasonably, assume that Gunner & Smith is a duo – maybe someone called Gunner and, who knows?, someone called Smith. And you’d be wrong,to some extent. Gunner & Smith is the recording name […]
It’s always an absolute delight to share our occasional series of mini-gigs with AUK readers. Since the early days of the pandemic, we used these special, intimate performances to sustain the connection between talented artists who […]
I am a long-time fan of the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band’s ‘Will The Circle Be Unbroken’ project. For me, it’s the ground zero of americana music – the point at which country rock and traditional country […]
Festival favourites The Hackensaw Boys return with no-holds-barred Appalachian string, bluegrass, country, and indie-pop. The highly influential Central Virginia musical collective The Hackensaw Boys has been around since 1999 with enough lineup changes to rival The […]
A profound meditation of the natural world. Album titles can range from the blindingly obvious to totally obscure and sometimes seem to have been created as an afterthought. Not so Shearwater’s ‘The Great Awakening’. As with […]
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