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Live Review: Dan Stuart, Fallen Angels Cub, Glad Café, Glasgow – 10th September 2023

September 19, 2023 Paul Kerr 1
It was a sold out (and probably around 95% male) audience who crowded into Glasgow’s Glad Café to welcome back our favourite curmudgeon, Dan Stuart, back to the fray. Stuart’s return to recording and live playing, […]
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Allison Russell announces UK dates for 2024

September 19, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0
GRAMMY-nominated singer, songwriter, poet, activist, and multi-instrumentalist Allison Russell has announced three headline shows in the UK and an appearance at TradFest in Dublin on 26th January. The tour finishes with a performance at London’s Lafayette […]
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The Matinee “Change of Scene”

September 19, 2023 Andrew Raw 0
Enjoyable, sunny and laid-back country-rock inspired by road trip. The Matinee’s ‘Change Of Scene’ is a mostly laid-back and sunny country-rock album that brings visions of summer and beaches to mind as one listens to it, […]
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Rachel Sermanni “Big Desire” – past imperfect

September 19, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
Rachel Sermanni’s latest album on navigator Records is called ‘Dreamer Awake’ and it was released last Friday. ‘Big Desire’, from that album, is the most recent single and comes via an unusual route being written after […]
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Video Premiere: Louis Michot “Rêve du Troubadour” feat. Rising Stars Fife and Drum

September 19, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
Here is the atmospheric video for ‘Rêve du Troubadour’, which translates as ‘The Troubadour’s Dream’, by Louis Michot, the fiddler, songwriter and lead singer from GRAMMY-winning Lost Bayou Ramblers.  The title is a reference to Michot’s […]

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

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A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities. Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

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This song is on Sheryl Crow’s Wildflower album, released in 2005 to lukewarm critical response. It was a low-key collection of songs – no All I Wanna Do or Soak Up the Sun among them – […]

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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 2
Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]

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Classic Americana Albums: Sparklehorse “Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot”

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The weird and wonderful world of Sparklehorse was fully formed from the start. I can’t recall what exactly led me to purchase ‘Vivadixiesubmarinetransmissionplot’ back in 1995. Most likely it was via some article regarding Cracker, a […]
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Video: Tom Jenkins “Back Roads”

April 21, 2022 0
Tom Jenkins’ recent single ‘Back Roads’ is delivered with a sense of urgency as a rhythmic strum and insistent percussion drive the song forward.  There are soaring backing vocals and an anthemic, sing-along chorus, delivered with […]
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If you’re looking for something to bring a little joy and hope into your life at the end of another working week, then take in the latest single and video from Long Island-based Andrew Weiss and […]

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