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David Lowery “Fathers, Sons and Brothers”

June 4, 2025 Andy Short 0
The life of David Lowery, who took the skinheads bowling. In 1963, the sea froze in Herne Bay, Kent. It was so cold during the big freeze that the sea was solid. That is where we […]
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Rodney Crowell to release new album “Airline Highway” in August

June 4, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Americana legend Rodney Crowell will release his 21st studio album, “Airline Highway”, on 29th August 2025 via New West Records. The 10-song set was produced by Tyler Bryant and recorded & mixed by Trina Shoemaker in […]
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Live Review: Bess Atwell + Sophie May + Pem, Koko, Camden – 22nd May 2025

June 4, 2025 John Lee 0
Second time lucky. Bess Atwell’s long-awaited show at Koko, postponed from February due to illness, proved well worth the wait. Judging by the warmth of the crowd, no one seemed to mind the delay. Atwell herself […]
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Anderson East “Worthy”

June 4, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
A solid set of songs and performances in first for new label. “Worthy” is Anderson East’s fourth studio album and his first for new label Rounder. It appears just under four years since its predecessor, “Maybe […]
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Coyote Motel “The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South”

June 4, 2025 Michael Macy 0
The new album from Ted Drozdowski and Coyote Motel is a tour de force, showcasing their cosmic roots. Psychedelic isn’t a word usually associated with americana, which mostly gets terms such as country, folk, bluegrass, blues, […]

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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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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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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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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

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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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Ally Evenson’s new five-track EP starts at the end of the affair, or at least at the beginning of the end – which means that it is saturated with the sadness of romantic loss – from […]
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Back in 2020 we shared the top 10 Americana internet radio shows and podcasts. Since then, podcasting has exploded into a phenomenon that is eating away at the listenership for traditional linear radio. But with internet […]

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