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The Corner Laughers “Concerns of Wasp and Willow”

April 1, 2026 NickBarber 0
Baroque west-coast folk pop with a lyrical ear for the concerns of the present day. From the sunny reaches of Northern California hail The Corner Laughers. This is their first album in five years, it seems, […]
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Jim Lauderdale releases 38th album to coincide with Emmylou Harris supporting tour

April 1, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0
Not only is Jim Lauderdale one of the most beloved, decorated songwriters ever to grace stages and studios around the world, but he’s also the most prolific. Since his major label debut in 1991, the recent […]
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Interview: Foy Vance on his seven-album project culminating in “The Wake”

April 1, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
Few artists write with the kind of raw honesty and emotional depth that Foy Vance brings to his music. Across a career that has steadily unfolded over the last two decades, Vance has crafted songs that […]
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The Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time: 8th Gretchen Peters “The Matador” (2012)

April 1, 2026 FredArnold 0
Four songs received exactly the same score (so effectively 5th=) but we have separated them based on the number of votes they received from our writers. This is the first of today’s entries. This is the […]
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Lost Guthrie/Dylan duet tape found and restored by Tweedy

April 1, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 2
Extraordinary news today that a lost Woady Guthrie and Rab Dylan duet has been discovered lurking in the archives of the Jonesonian Institute and has been given to renowned musician and producer Seth Tweedy to bring […]

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Sensitive sounds carry poetic lyrics and encourage deeper reflections on meaning. Mildred is a four-piece band from Oakland, CA, with members: Henry Easton Koehler (vocals, guitar), Jack Schrott (vocals, guitar), Matt Palmquist (vocals, bass, woodwinds) or […]
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We’re heading towards the Summer now, May Day falls this week, and the obvious thing would be to offer you, valued reader, a swathe of music that touches on those themes of rebirth and the explosion […]

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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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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]

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Jingle Bells Friday – welcome to the bleak midwinter

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Well, here we are at last with the first edition of Jingle Bells Friday for this year’s festive season.  We’ve had a bumper crop of yule-themed songs already so to (hopefully!) fit them all in we’re […]
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Something for the weekend: Ruston Kelly “Mending Song”

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Well that’s it for another week dearest reader, and we leave you with a lovely new song by the one-time Mr Musgraves Ruston Kelly. The track ‘Mending Song’ is the second to be released from the […]
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AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Russell Murphy

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Our unrelenting quest to identify the ‘top 10 americana albums ever’ moves unstoppably on. We have more road behind us than is left in front, but the last miles are set to be as thrilling and […]

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