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More People Really Should Know About: The Green Pajamas

April 7, 2026 Tim Martin 0
The recent, and rather good, compilation This Can’t Be Today – American Psychedelia & The Paisley Underground 1977-1988 reminded me about a band who have operated way off the radar for their whole 40-year career. The […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 225 “A Break”

April 7, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
This will be the last article for a while if all goes to plan and I actually get to go on my hols to sunny Spain. Picked a great year to decide to drive all the […]
News

Jesper Lindell doubles down on on his US pilgrimage with a second album out in June

April 7, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
Hot on the heels of the recently released 3614 Jackson Highway, Swedish singer/songwriter Jesper Lindell has released his cover of Otis Clay’s Tryin’ to Live My Life Without You from his forthcoming album Royal, which is […]
Tracks

Haylie Davis “Horns Of Time” – the wizard blew his horn

April 7, 2026 Jonathan Aird 0
We said of Haylie Davis, “Charming echoes of effortlessly cool 70s folk“, and whilst that was when Haylie Davis was Haylie Hostetter and recording as Lady Apple Tree, we stand by that assessment, and offer as […]
Videos

Video: Natalie Wildgoose “River Days” – I don’t want to go

April 7, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
With its grainy footage, the latest video from Natalie Wildgoose feels like a memory revisited, and the song’s lo-fi sound is like a musical remembering. The reflective River Days begins with tumbling piano notes, just like […]

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Something for the weekend: Passenger “It Was Gonna Be You”

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Aaron Lee Tasjan “Get Over It, Underdog”

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Paperback Riders: George Takei “To The Stars”

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Classic Clips: Julian Taylor “Friend Of The Devil” – LIVE at SiriusXM, 2019

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The Morning Line polish up their Stars on a new label and look to the future

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Something for the weekend: Passenger “It Was Gonna Be You”

August 14, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Passenger out today called It Was Gonna Be You which doesn’t really have a whole lot of […]
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Album Reviews

Aaron Lee Tasjan “Get Over It, Underdog”

August 14, 2026 0
A broad-spectrum listening experience packed with vibrant, timeless songs. Aaron Lee Tasjan sought counsel from his longstanding friend and mentor, the late great Todd Snider, to help loosen the shackles of imposter syndrome that were tying […]
Book Reviews

Paperback Riders: George Takei “To The Stars”

August 14, 2026 0
George Takei’s 1994 autobiography, To the Stars, is rather more than a standard Hollywood memoir. Whilst it does cover his years on the USS Enterprise in detail, the more interesting aspects lie in the exploration of […]

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  • Aaron Lee Tasjan “Get Over It, Underdog”
  • Paperback Riders: George Takei “To The Stars”
  • Classic Clips: Julian Taylor “Friend Of The Devil” – LIVE at SiriusXM, 2019
  • The Morning Line polish up their Stars on a new label and look to the future
  • Gin Wigmore “Beautiful Mess”
  • The latest AUK Podcast is now available featuring Laura Veirs
  • Kaz Murphy “Iowa Ohio Arizona” – swinging places for swinging people
  • Video: Ned Collette “Commandeered Parade” – new horror from old books on the shelf
  • Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard
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Interviews

Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]
Interviews

Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]
Interviews

Interview: Frank Turner reflects on 20 years of Campfire Punkrock

August 11, 2026 0
Remarkably, it is twenty years since Frank Turner released his first solo EP: Campfire Punkrock. The very title was both a statement of intent and a conscious identifier, defining his sound and the purpose of his […]

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Live Reviews

Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Lutterworth – 22nd-24th August 2025

September 25, 2025 0
My preview of a couple of weeks back noted that the Long Road Festival is an annual fixture in my diary, and this year‘s line-up promised much. The festival now boasts six stages – adding the […]
Tracks

Gordie “Crazylegs” MacKeeman “All Around The Kitchen” – fiddle driven folk

July 29, 2022 1
Gordie “Crazylegs” MacKeeman has recorded a two volume album release of songs that’s called ‘Folk For Little Folk’. It was a project that came to life over the pandemic when MacKeeman became more acutely aware of […]
Tracks

Rocky Votolato “Little Black Diamond” – intimate acoustic americana

August 16, 2022 0
There’s an intimate feel to ‘Little Black Diamond‘ which is taken from the album ‘Wild Roots‘ which will be released on September 9 via Spartan Records and Thirty Something Records (Europe/UK).  It’s the first new album […]

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