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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Number 4 – Laura Cantrell “Not the Tremblin’ Kind” (2000)

October 18, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0

I have always hated bombast in music, and if I had to chose one part of americana broadly speaking that I can’t bear it’s that kind of Southern Rock dirge which is as far away from […]

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Small Venue Heroes: The Josephines

October 18, 2022 Alasdair Fotheringham 2

To date, the biggest band to come out of the city of Bowling Green, Kentucky is almost certainly eclectic art rockers Cage The Elephant. But it’s also home to The Josephines, who describe themselves as a […]

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Jesse Tabish “Cowboy Ballads Part 1”

October 18, 2022 Rick Bayles 0

Lush production and cinematic arrangements. Yet another album conceived and recorded during a pandemic lockdown. Jesse Tabish is the frontman for Oklahoma band, Other Lives, but on this album, working with his wife, Kim (also a […]

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Track Premiere: liv. “Lemon”

October 18, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Emotions are a strange thing to comprehend and at first listen one may feel that this is a song sitting in the acceptance stage of the five stages of break-up documented on ‘Young, Dumb and in […]

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Video Premiere: Güero “Scribe”

October 18, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

Four-piece band Güero have released the first single from their forthcoming album.  ‘Scribe’ sweeps along on currents of pulsing drums from Mike Ruiz and Russell Volksen’s grooving bass.  Over these forceful rhythms, Shea Ritche’s keys are […]

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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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Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

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When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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Margo Price has announced her new album ‘Strays‘ will be out on January 13th on Loma Vista Recordings. The new album marks Price’s first new album since 2020’s acclaimed ‘That’s How Rumors Get Started‘, and during the […]

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Jake Swamp and The Pine recorded a socially distanced EP outdoors to keep up the momentum of creating their stripped-down, heartfelt acoustic music. Americana-folk duo Drew Zieff (vocals, guitar) and Stuart Babcock (mandolin, harmonies) take their […]

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Tales and legends of isolation, love, and lust from another time. Halfway is an Australian band that has been around for twenty-five years now. ‘The Styx’ is their ninth album and sees the return of founding […]

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