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About Andrew Lefley
I have been a music fan since the early to mid 70's, amassing a large collection of media, vinyl and CD. My tastes are fairly catholic and take in Americana amongst other genres. Favourite bands include DBT's, Jason Isbell, Richmond Fontaine, The Delines, Chuck Prophet, the Band and Counting Crows
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Midwestern Mrs “I’m Still Here”

May 18, 2026 Andrew Lefley 0
A strong debut album with a range of folk-based songs with lyrical depth and style. This is the first full-length album from Ohio-based Midwestern Mrs, better known as Georgia Evans to her family, following a string […]
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Todd Albright “Blues for Dexter Linwood”

May 1, 2026 Andrew Lefley 0
Authentic pre-war country blues played by an acclaimed 12-string master. This is Albright’s fourth album of acoustic country blues, played finger-picked style on a 12-string guitar. An acknowledged master of this style of playing, Albright doesn’t […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Blue Water Highway

April 28, 2026 Andrew Lefley 0
Blue Water Highway is an Austin-based Americana/folk rock band. Their signature is considered songwriting across a variety of styles, but always melodic, with fantastic harmony singing. Musically timeless, there are elements of Laurel Canyon songwriting, focussing […]
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Benjamin Tod “Vengeance and Grace”

April 22, 2026 Andrew Lefley 0
An experienced and honest songwriter explores both sides of his stylistic background, performing the same songs twice. In a career of around 20 years, this appears to be Tod’s 21st album, either primarily with the Lost […]
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Andy Thomas “Highway Junkie”

March 24, 2026 Andrew Lefley 0
A big-hearted, big guitar album that will leave a smile on your face. Andrew Thomas Trongone has chosen to record and release his debut album after a couple of years away from music, having realised he […]

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David Jarman’s recent visit to Woodstock in his AUK ‘For The Sake Of The Song’ feature may well have whetted the appetite of Joni Mitchell fans (here), of which I have been one for over half […]
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Diana Darby “Otterson”

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Songs of love and hate with a layer of ghostly eeriness. When the Eagles reunited to stage their Hell Freezes Over TV special, Don Henley famously said that “For the record, we never broke up, we […]
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The Attention Seekers from Newcastle don’t have a band name which does them justice given we are very happy to seek their attention! And they have a new song out now about which songwriter Alan Fish […]

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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

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If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

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Johnny Cash was a force of nature. There are not enough superlatives in the dictionary to do the man any kind of justice. J.R. was a magnificent songwriter. Just as magnificent, perhaps even more so, was […]
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