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Live Review: The (THL) Festival, Kirton in Lindsey, North Lincolnshire – 16th July 2023

July 24, 2023 Graeme Tait 2

The lyrics, “Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, if the sun don’t come you get a tan from standing in the English rain,” by some small band from Liverpool with an uncanny understanding […]

Album Reviews

Lloyd Cole “On Pain”

July 24, 2023 Darren Lumbroso 0

Elegant, minimalist synthpop with some fine tunes. There are some people who may not have been paying attention over the past 40 years and still associate Lloyd Cole with the jangly guitars of his seminal debut […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: Nils Lofgren’s Influence on Neil Young’s ‘Southern Man’

July 24, 2023 GrahamBollands 0

In last week’s Chain Gang, Clint West made the connection between Shooter Jennings’ old man Waylon, who amongst other things, added his distinctive guitar sound to a number of tracks on Neil Young’s 1985 country album […]

Features

Americana one two three….

July 24, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Numbers, they are great, aren’t they?  All around us all the time – there’s the wall that’s not quite upright, leaning at 5 degress, there’s the quickest way from point A where you might be standing […]

Album Reviews

M Ward “Supernatural Thing”

July 24, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

M Ward’s latest features many guests and many beautiful melodies. Opening with the Dylanesque ‘Lifeline‘, all acoustic guitar and subtle flourishes and a very rapid fade, M Ward sets out his stall. His voice is a […]

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  • AUK’s EP Round-Up – January 2026
  • Loose Music triumph again as Greazy Alice announce debut album and May tour dates
  • Anna Tivel “Memphis” – well, everything is going to be so easy now…
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  • Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion
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  • Anniversary Cheers: The Delines “The Scenic Sessions” gets a wider release for its 10th birthday
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Interview: Trevor Sensor on connection, bataille and love in the time of confusion

January 13, 2026 0

“Are you really real, do you feel the same thing that I do, girl, when I touch you, girl?” ~ Ricky Nelson According to iconic filmmaker Federico Fellini, “The visionary is the only true realist.” Before […]

Interviews

Interview: Mikel Jollett of the Airborne Toxic Event on struggles, joys and the journey

December 12, 2025 0

Hard times, no, unusually hard times served to bring the Airborne Toxic Event frontman Mikel Jollett a sense of purpose in life as a singer, songwriter, band leader, author and speaker about childhood trauma. As he […]

Interviews

Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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