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Live Review: Saturday at Ramblin’ Roots Revue, Bucks Students’ Union, High Wycombe – 15th April 2023

April 28, 2023 Andrew Frolish 3
Saturday’s headliner at Ramblin’ Roots, Robert Vincent, told AUK: “It’s good to be back around everyone, seeing all these musicians together again.”  Indeed, there’s still a particular and renewed sense of the communal joy to be […]
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Josh Ritter “Spectral Lines”

April 28, 2023 Graeme Tait 0
A reflective and atmospheric 11th studio album that finds Ritter exploring a broader musical palette. Being fully aware of stating the obvious a lot has changed since Josh Ritter’s last album, 2019’s ‘Fever Break’ delivered its […]
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AUK Shortcuts April 2023: Lucy Farrell, Joe Forkan, White Rose Motor Oil, Burning Ferns, Michael Meeking, Mellisa Ruth, Lisa/Liza, The Kirals, Erika Olsen, Duncan Phillips and Innes Wilson’s Freightliner

April 28, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
Our latest Short Cuts, an occasional feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]
Tracks

Track Premiere: Kazimi “River Run”

April 28, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
New York based Kazimi says that she never set out to make an album and states “I don’t think I would’ve started if I had.”  Music had been a secretive activity in which Kazimi strove to […]
Videos

Video: Dean Owens “Mother Road”

April 28, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the latest single from Scottish singer-songwriter and AUK-favourite Dean Owens.  ‘Mother Road’ is a deeply atmospheric song that places the listener right there on Route 66, both through Owens’ terrific storytelling words and through the […]

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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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