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Video Premiere: Grain Thief “Tapawingo”

October 28, 2025 Andrew Frolish 1
‘Tapawingo’, the new single from roots string band Grain Thief, is simply beautiful music to lose yourself in.  Displaying excellent musicianship and songcraft, Grain Thief perform with grace and elegance, creating timeless, immersive music.  The Boston-based quintet […]
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Todd Snider “High, Lonesome And Then Some”

October 27, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
A wry set of songs rooted in experience and humour. Over thirty years since the release of his debut, “Songs For The Daily Planet”, Todd Snider’s latest album is clearly marked by the passage of time […]
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Americana UK’s Halloween Horrors – ’tis the season of… the witch!

October 27, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Come in, come in – mind the cobwebs. Take a seat… NO! No, not there, that seat is…well, never mind, never mind. I expect you’re wondering what this is all about, we had hoped that the […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Red Sammy

October 27, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
Like good luck and high tide, Baltimore-based band Red Sammy return to AUK for an exclusive mini-gig featuring their brand of slow-burning Americana folk-rock. The set was recorded was recorded at Stages Studios in Baltimore, Maryland. […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Nils Lofgren “Dear Heartbreaker”

October 27, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
In 2019, eight years after his last studio release (“Old School”), Nils Lofgren reached back into the archives for six songs he recorded with Lou Reed and put those together with four songs of his own […]

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More People Really Should Know About… Nathan Seeckts

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Australian Nathan Seeckts, from Geelong on the southern coast near Melbourne, first came to my notice with his wonderful 2023 album, Something Rare And Beautiful. It is passionate, big-hearted alt-country crammed full of great tunes and […]
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Clay DuBose “Father Time & Mother Nature”

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Americana and roots rock enlivened by a carefully picked team of players, adding vigour and bite to some workmanlike songs. Clay DuBose has recruited a crack team of players to support his third album. Opening song […]

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Live Review: The Delines+Our Man In The Field, The Fleece, Bristol – July 12th, 2022

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Even with the air con working overtime The Fleece is always stifling, but with a gig this good no one cared. Opening act Our Man In The Field had suffered the loss of some of their […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: The Felice Brothers “Jazz On The Autobahn”

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Our chain of americana has featured brothers’ bands on the last two occasions, so third time lucky as they say. Actually, who can form a tighter band than two (or more brothers)? Until the full brotherly […]
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Interview : Don Gallardo on surviving COVID and writing his lockdown album

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Nashville’s Don Gallardo was almost an honorary European for a time as his last tour coincided with the first lockdown. If Don Gallardo has kept a diary of his plague year, it certainly has a riveting […]

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