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Something for the weekend: Charley Crockett “Game I Can’t Win”

March 21, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a song from the new album by Charley Crockett “Lonesome Drifter” which we glowingly reviewed earlier this […]

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Chris Eckman “The Land We Knew The Best”

March 21, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 0

Total absorbtion from the mountains of Slovenia. For this, his seventh solo album, Chris Eckman introduces a more layered, richer feel than its predecessor. The languid vocals that alone generate so much atmosphere remain but he […]

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Classic Clips: Sturgill Simpson “Could You Love Me One More Time” (Live on KEXP @Pickathon), 2013

March 21, 2025 Andy Davidson 0

Anyone who had the good fortune to catch this fella during his recent European tour will hopefully have been as impressed as I was with his performance at the Barrowland Ballroom. The last time Sturgill Simpson […]

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Book Review: Pete Kennedy “Tone, Twang and Taste: A Guitar Memoir”

March 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

The whole things started with me saying “yes.” Pete Kennedy has written his memoir with the same plainspoken elegance as the records he has made with his musical partner and wife, Maura Kennedy. He spins some […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Kirsten Haze

March 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Kirsten Haze has been one half of The Haze and Dacey Collective with John Dacey and supporting musicians. She also plays solo gigs, which is what you are seeing in this instalment of AUK’s Mini-Gig series. […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

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Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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