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Something for the weekend: Big Red Machine “Phoenix”

June 30, 2023 Mark Whitfield 1
Well that’s it from us for another week. We are human here at AUK, or 95% of us are anyway, and accordingly we will occasionally miss something epic, a case in question being this track from […]
Tracks

Eoin Glackin “The Way You Looked At Me” – could this be, could this be love?

June 30, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Going into the weekend with a piece of retro-Americana, there’s a 1920’s feel to this single from Dublin-based folk / blues / americana artist Eoin Glackin, which offers a preview of his forthcoming album, ‘The Cost […]
Features

The First Time: Alasdair Fotheringham – The Alarm + Kissing Bandits + Mercenary Skank (Exeter University, 24th January 1984)

June 30, 2023 Alasdair Fotheringham 2
Warning to all The Alarm fans so they can stop reading this now – I didn’t enjoy their part of this gig at all. But weird as it sounds, no matter how disappointing (to me) the […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 102

June 30, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 3
A dawning realisation. Three weeks of school left and a school trip to Paris involving 81 kids and a 01.00 start time for the coach!  That horror aside, the slow inevitable march to my final lessons […]
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Drive-By Truckers “The Complete Dirty South”

June 30, 2023 Graeme Tait 2
Twenty-year anniversary album now available as the band original intended with three bonus tracks. Back in 2004 Georgia’s finest exports the Drive-By Truckers released their fifth album and the third in a trilogy of albums that […]

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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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Leon III “Invisible Ink” – heating the lemon juice

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Ah, the sweet delights of Candy Cigarettes, those thin white sticks of some sweet concoction with the realistic glow of red at the tip; all packaged away in what was rather like a matchbox and came […]
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Video Premiere: The Cashville Trash Pandas “Worker’s Song (Handful of Earth)”

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Ushered in with pounding drums and pulsing bass, the new single from The Cashville Trash Pandas is a heartfelt anthem for working people all over the world. Worker’s Song (Handful of Earth) is for all of […]

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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

August 28, 2026 1
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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