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Album Reviews

AUK Short Cuts: Steve Robinson & Ed Woltil, Kevin Coleman, Bay Station, Mudlarks, Jo Bartlett & Neil Haydock, and Ben Walden

September 1, 2026 Bryan Bance 1
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites, […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Poco “High And Dry” – The Midnight Special, 1975

August 28, 2026 Bryan Bance 4
On January 24, 1975, Poco appeared on The Midnight Special, the popular late-night musical variety show that ran during the 1970’s. One of the six songs they performed that evening was High and Dry, an energetic […]
Atwork for Kate Waters album "Some Comfort
Album Reviews

Kate Waters “Some Comfort”

August 17, 2026 Bryan Bance 0
Singer-songwriter finds comfort and meaning in endings while remaining hopeful for the future on an album that shines with hard-earned wisdom. Kate Waters knows a thing or two about the healing power of music. The Texas-based […]
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Album Reviews

AUK Shortcuts: Around About Dusk, Paul Mosley and The Red Meat Orchestra, Coldsville, The Roseline, Jim Reynolds, Long John Makkay, Clark Paterson, and Davis Wells

August 4, 2026 Bryan Bance 0
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently, which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites, […]
Peter Case
Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Peter Case

July 22, 2026 Bryan Bance 0
First things first, Peter Case has had a long and distinguished career and judging by the quality of his latest releases, he shows no signs of slowing down. By last count, as a solo artist, he’s […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”

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Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”

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Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”

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Elaine Palmer announces Autumn UK tour

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Features

For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”

September 14, 2026 1
This surreal cut from Bob Dylan’s 1978 album Street-Legal can be interpreted in many ways. Dylan himself has offered many different explanations of the song’s intricate lyrics, often contradicting his earlier descriptions. Whatever the story, or […]
Tracks

Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”

September 14, 2026 0
Standing Stones – enigmatic traces of the long past dwellers in these lands.  People with their own culture, their own way of looking at the world – and even though they are long gone these remaining […]
Album Reviews

Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”

September 14, 2026 0
An album which leads from a concept rooted in despair which ends as hopeful observations of life and its shifts. Margo Cilker says of her third album; “You could definitely call it a concept record.” Recorded […]

  • For The Sake Of The Song: Bob Dylan “Señor (Tales of Yankee Power)”
  • Track Premiere: Louise Bichan “The Standing Stones”
  • Margo Cilker “Little White Cross”
  • Live Review: Oil & Whiskey, The Old Red Lion & Playhouse, London – 3rd September 2026
  • Elaine Palmer announces Autumn UK tour
  • Ewan Macintyre & Herding Cats “On These Islands We Sing”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 252 “Emotions… funny things”
  • Track Premiere: Paula Fong “What Are We Running From”
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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
Interviews

Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 1
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 221 “Bubbling Under”

February 16, 2026 0
Occasionally, our Editor Mark, here at AUK, sends out requests for writers to join the team. This is how I ended up writing this column; I answered a call to arms back in 2004. So what […]
Dirty Dozens

Dirty Dozen: The Wharves

October 27, 2016 0
Hailing from Ireland, France and England, The Wharves combine gracefully minimal psyche-rock with fuzzed out folk. They invoke the reverberated spook of 60’s groups, the mid-fi guitar crunch of Kim Deal’s The Amps, the sisterly vocal harmonies of The […]
Tracks

Ashley Shadow and Bonnie Prince Billy “Don’t Slow Me Down” – Sadness, I know thee

July 29, 2021 0
There’s the tentative feel of something slipping away – an opportunity lost, or the wrong path taken – on Ashley Shadow’s ‘Don’t Slow Me Down’ which simply drips with pedal steel set to weeping.  A sad […]

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