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Rob Clamp wins The Twang Factor 3

February 17, 2023 Clint West 1
As outlined in yesterday’s runners-up announcement, The Twang Factor 3 was a very close affair but in the end Southampton-based singer, songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Rob Clamp won it by a nose from runners-up Sunsinger and the […]
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dePresno “Loser In The Night” – Failure in romance

February 17, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Norwegian singer dePresno is feeling the pain of falling out of love – or actually even worse than that, maybe he’s still in love but his hand in the game isn’t too strong “feels like we […]
Videos

Video Premiere: VanWyck “The Epic Tale of the Stranded Man – Expanded Edition”

February 17, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
One of 2022’s highlights was ‘The Epic Tale of the Stranded Man’, a 12-song collection from AUK-favourite VanWyck.  Christine Oele, who performs as VanWyck, demonstrated her fine songcraft in this narrative album that told the tale […]
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Classic Clips: Ry Cooder and the Chicken Skin Band “He’ll Have to Go” – Old Grey Whistle Test, 1977

February 17, 2023 David Jarman 1
Ry Cooder and the wonderful Chicken Skin Band turn in a truly classic performance at an Old Grey Whistle Test recording from Shepherds Bush Television Theatre in 1977. Cooder has always had a special knack for […]
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Complete Mountain Almanac “Complete Mountain Almanac”

February 17, 2023 Darren Lumbroso 0
A meditative record with songs ranging from beautiful chamber folk to classical, best listened to on headphones. Complete Mountain Almanac is a collaboration between Norwegian-born, Sweden-based singer and composer Rebekka Karijord and the American-born, Italy-based poet, […]

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AUK celebrates with an event in Liverpool city centre on Saturday November 28th. Well, unbelievably, it was a quarter of a century ago that Americana UK first came into existence as a one-man operation run from a […]
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There are very few artists who are as consistently excellent across a whole career as Lyle Lovett. He marries sharp, witty observations with immaculate musicianship, starting with his eponymous debut record and going right up to […]
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AUK’s EP Round-Up – March 2026

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Here we are in March, and spring has well and truly sprung in this part of the northern hemisphere, after what had felt like endless weeks of grey days and continuous precipitation. So, what better way […]

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Interview: Michael Timmins on “More Acoustic Junk”, Cowboy Junkies and, well… other Mike stuff

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A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Book Review: Robert Shelton “Bob Dylan: No Direction Home”

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A new re-issue of the classic Dylan biography as he nears his 80th birthday. Never judge a book by its cover – but in this case that is going to be the first thing that becomes […]
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West Country duo shine on captivating folk-blues album. Finding out the background to any artist is always illuminating and reading the publicity around this release, it was a joy to read that one of the main […]

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