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Track Premiere: Bill Scorzari “I-70 East (Acoustic)”

February 13, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Bill Scorzari released his 4th studio album, the co-produced with Neilson Hubbard ‘The Crosswinds of Kansas‘, last year.   It took its title from a line in the song ‘I-70 East‘: “Then, came the crosswinds of Kansas […]
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Video Premiere: Holly Lovelady “Year of the Cat”

February 13, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
The piano rolls and flows in the latest single from folk-pop singer Holly Lovelady.  ‘Year of the Cat’ is a contemporary re-imagining of Al Stewart’s 1976 song, swapping lines about ‘Casa Blanca’ for references to ‘Peaky […]
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Something for the weekend: Great Lakes “The Pinks and the Purples”

February 10, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
That’s it from us for this week dear reader, and we leave you today not with a new song but a veritable stone-cold classic from 2006 which we received in those heady days to review here […]
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Yo La Tengo “Sinatra Drive Breakdown” – it’s a long road, thank goodness

February 10, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
This is timely – ‘Sinatra Drive Breakdown‘ is taken from the new Yo La Tengo album ‘This Stupid World‘, which is released today.  ‘Sinatra Drive Breakdown‘  is the opener for the album and it bubbles and […]
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I’m Kingfisher “Glue”

February 10, 2023 Rick Thorn 0
Is this a new genre? Lounge Americana. I’m Kingfisher is the alias of multi-award-winning Swedish folk artist Thomas Jonsson. It is the fifth in this guise and his eight overall. “ All I wanted to do […]

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Live Review: Levellers, The Meffs, Brakes, Kid Kapichi and Sleeper, Hove Park, Brighton – 5th September 2026

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If only all homecomings could be this joyful. There are homecomings, and then there are homecomings. For the Levellers, returning to Brighton for a huge outdoor show in Hove Park felt like something rather special. Following […]
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Josh Ritter is coming this way in January – Happy New Year!

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One of AUK’s favourite singer-songwriters, who is also an artist and best-selling author, Josh Ritter, will tour the UK and Ireland early next year, following his last album, I Believe In You, My Honeydew. The tour […]
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The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Israel Nash and Sid Griffin

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We’ve reached the half-century and celebrate with a deluxe double issue featuring some scintillating chat with two icons of the genre. Israel Nash talks about his reimagining of Sweetheart of the Rodeo and his songwriting process, […]

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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”

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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry – “All My Faith”If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final […]
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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

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As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

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Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]

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