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Eric Bibb “If You’re Free” – freedom is never free

December 8, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

The latest single from Eric Bibb is the third taster from his new album “One Mississippi“, and finds the three time-Grammy nominated singer questioning what it is to be free. From the basics of being free […]

Video Premiere: Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners “Shelf”

December 8, 2025 Andrew Frolish 0

Here’s the video premiere for ‘Shelf‘, the latest single from Duluth singer-songwriter Breanne Marie Tepler and her band The Front Porch Sinners. The band create a full sound with absorbing layers and depth. Over Tarek Makky’s […]

Something for the weekend: Joy Oladokun feat. Sheryl Crow “I’d Miss the Birds”

December 5, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. If you’re an AUK supporter, your monthly newsletter will be with you at 5pm with our exclusive end of year best of 2025 playlist which we […]

Jingle Bells Friday – I want to see the bright Xmas lights tonight

December 5, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

And now the sweating starts, the raised heartbeat rate, the stark all all-encompassing, totally overwhelming fear…yes, there are less than three weeks to go to the Big Day. How does this happen every single year? Or, […]

Sam Shackleton “Scottish Cowboy Ballads and Early American Folk Songs”

December 5, 2025 Paul Kerr 0

An excellent reclamation of far-scattered folk songs. On his second album, Edinburgh’s Sam Shackleton continues to display his love of and mastery of American folk music while infusing it with an unmistakable Scottish presence. His debut […]

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

July 10, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. Don’t forget about our 25 year anniversary event in November which takes place across 2 stages in Liverpool at the end of November and features Chuck Prophet and […]

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

July 10, 2026 0

Willy Vlautin is well known as the chief songwriter of Richmond Fontaine and The Delines, trading in beautifully written vignettes of the people who have generally fallen between the cracks of the American dream. These dark […]

Emmylou Harris, Mumford and Sons and Jerry Douglas

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

July 10, 2026 0

The evening before San Francisco’s 2025 Hardly Strictly Bluegrass Festival the Masonic Auditorium hosted a tribute concert to Emmylou Harris, the only artist to have graced the festival stages for each of its 25 years. During […]

Year: 2025

Eric Bibb “If You’re Free” – freedom is never free

Video Premiere: Breanne Marie & The Front Porch Sinners “Shelf”

Something for the weekend: Joy Oladokun feat. Sheryl Crow “I’d Miss the Birds”

Jingle Bells Friday – I want to see the bright Xmas lights tonight

Sam Shackleton “Scottish Cowboy Ballads and Early American Folk Songs”

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Cocodamol”

Book review: Willy Vlautin “The Left and the Lucky”

Classic Clips: Mumford & Sons & Emmylou Harris ft. Jerry Douglas “The Road” – CMT Crossroads, The Factory, Franklin, Tennessee, 20th September 2012

Les Thomas “I Remember Everything”

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring author and journalist Liz Thomson