2023 – Page 295 – Americana UK

The First Time: Keith Hargreaves – The Specials, Madness etc. Camden Electric Ballroom – 21st July 1979

March 31, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 3

I was fifteen. I knew nothing… at all. Desperate to attend a gig in London my mate Maz persuaded his sister who lived in a commune in Kings Cross to get some tickets. Maz was a […]

AUK Shortcuts March 2023: Frances Luke Accord, Nicholas Johnson, Seamus Foley, Taradiddle, Nashville Ambient Ensemble, Brigid O’Neill and Daniel Meade…

March 31, 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 […]

View from Across La Manche #13 – From Our Own Correspondent

March 31, 2023 Rick Bayles 0

There’s a riot going on… It’s been a very lively month here, politically. As I’m sure most people know, Emmanuel Macron survived two No Confidence votes on the evening of March 20th, after he forced his […]

Robert Jon & The Wreck EP art One Of A Kind

Robert Jon & The Wreck “One Of A Kind”

March 31, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0

Robert Jon & The Wreck deliver a classic EP with new label and name producers. Robert Jon & The Wreck are a hard rocking band from Southern California but, if their sound is anything to by, […]

Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit “Middle Of The Morning” – Gotta get up, gotta get out

March 31, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

This is the second single from Jason Isbell’s new album ‘Weathervanes‘, which will be released June 9th on Southeastern Records/Thirty Tigers. It sounds quietly reflective, with almost a romantic ballad feel to it – but this […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

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Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

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Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

Year: 2023