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Track Premiere: Beth Bombara “Moment”

July 12, 2023 Jonathan Aird 2
What a pleasure to be able to offer you, our dear readership, an early listen to the latest song released by the awesome Beth Bombara and taken from the new album ‘It All Goes Up‘ which […]
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Video Premiere: The One Eighties “Two Jet Planes”

July 12, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Here’s the latest single from Raleigh-area duo The One Eighties, the new musical project from Daniel Cook and Autumn Brand, formerly of acclaimed band New Reveille.  ‘Two Jet Planes’ features gorgeous, sweeping sonic layers over powerful, […]
Interviews

Interview: Joshua Radin on what the world is telling him

July 11, 2023 Martin Johnson 0
Honesty is not only the best policy, it is the only way to write music and live your life. Joshua Radin has kept up a very respectable release rate since releasing his first album in 2006 […]
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Radiator King “Hammer & Nails” – I’d rather be a hammer than a nail, yes I would

July 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Looking at that band photo (left to right we have Alexander Burke, Adam Silvestri, Brian Viglione) we can’t help but think of one our favourite lines from ‘Almost Famous‘: an impassioned Russell asks the world “is […]
Album Reviews

Rufus Wainwright “Folkocracy”

July 11, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1
Star studded folk duets album delivers a polished sound. We don’t know for certain if he’s zipping up his boots, but ‘Folkocracy’ certainly sees musical polymath Rufus Wainwright returning to his roots.   The son of Loudon […]

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Behind the Songs: Natalie Del Carmen “Pastures”

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Big Harp “Runs to Blue”

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For the Sake of the Song: Jefferson Airplane “Comin’ Back to Me”

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Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Natalie Del Carmen “Pastures”

March 30, 2026 0
When it comes right down to it, the heart of americana music has always been about connecting listeners to real experiences and emotions, and Natalie Del Carmen is currently one of the best examples of what […]
artwork for Big Harp album "Runs to Blue"
Album Reviews

Big Harp “Runs to Blue”

March 30, 2026 0
Los Angeles-based Big Harp duo relaunch with plainspoken album after ten-year hiatus. Farmland and ranches make up close on 90% of Nebraska’s land area. Not the likeliest place to find a thriving indie music hub, perhaps; […]
Jefferson Airplane publicity photo 1970
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For the Sake of the Song: Jefferson Airplane “Comin’ Back to Me”

March 30, 2026 0
If I were to casually name-drop Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow (1967), you might find yourself thinking about Grace Slick’s voice bellowing through Somebody to Love, or the rolling-drum acid-trip stylings of White Rabbit. God knows those […]

  • Behind the Songs: Natalie Del Carmen “Pastures”
  • Big Harp “Runs to Blue”
  • For the Sake of the Song: Jefferson Airplane “Comin’ Back to Me”
  • Various Artists “Old No. 1 Revisited”
  • Fruit Bats head for “The Landfill” with the new album out in June
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Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Natalie Del Carmen “Pastures”

March 30, 2026 0
When it comes right down to it, the heart of americana music has always been about connecting listeners to real experiences and emotions, and Natalie Del Carmen is currently one of the best examples of what […]
Interviews

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

March 25, 2026 1
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”

March 12, 2026 0
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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Interview: Jared Deck keeps his “Head Above Water”

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How politics and songwriting are all about storytelling and red dirt. Chatting with Jared Deck was probably a first for Americana UK as he is an elected Democratic State Representative in Oklahoma, he could also be […]
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Something for the weekend: Christian Kjellvander “Slow Walk In The Country”

August 5, 2022 0
That’s it from us for another week dear reader. If you’re one of our beloved AUK supporters your new playlist arrives this afternoon at 5pm and one lucky reader will be winning a vinyl copy of […]
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Jade Jackson “Don’t Say That You Love Me” – Listen

July 5, 2019 0
Jade Jackson’s back, two years after her album ‘Gilded‘ she has now released a whole bunch of new songs on the well received (read the review here) ‘Wilderness‘.  This, her latest single, has a chorus that […]

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