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About Clint West
From buying my first record aged 10 and attending my first gig at 14, music has been a lifelong obsession. A proud native of Suffolk, I have lived in and around Manchester for the best part of 30 years. My idea of a perfect day would be a new record arriving in the post in the morning, watching Ipswich Town win in the afternoon followed by a gig and a pint with my mates at night,
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Clint West’s Americana Plus: Are You Ready for Some Country?

June 4, 2024 Clint West 0
Lately I’ve been broadcasting ‘Clint West’s Americana Plus’ from the new Studio 2 at the Lancashire School of Rock just north of Manchester.  However, the transfer from Studio 1 has not been without some teething problems. […]
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Clint West’s Americana Plus: The pitfalls of having zero practical skills

May 28, 2024 Clint West 2
In my early twenties I shared a house with two other guys of a similar age. Both had graduated from university with good degrees and were very intelligent and likeable people. However, the idea of getting […]
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Freddy Trujillo “I Never Threw A Shadow At It”

May 28, 2024 Clint West 0
Richmond Fontaine and The Delines’ bass player explores his Chicano roots on a very personal and musically ambitious new album. Freddy Trujillo is the bass player with Richmond Fontaine and The Delines but he’s also a […]
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Clint West’s Americana Plus: The 1970’s – Heaven or Hell?

May 20, 2024 Clint West 13
There was a time not so long ago where, on a fairly regular basis, the Tories would issue dire warnings that Labour would “take Britain back to the 1970s”. You don’t hear that so much now […]
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Clint West’s Americana Plus: A new regular AUK column

May 13, 2024 Clint West 12
Should we keep all our old records, CDs, books etc? Welcome to my new weekly column where I’ll be ruminating on all things americana and anything else that happens to enter my head each week. I’ll […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

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The Woodstock festival held in 1969 at Yasgur’s farm, Bethel, New York, is one of those truly emblematic moments in the history of contemporary music, and indeed in the birth of americana. And of course it’s […]
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There always comes a moment in any antsy, over-stuffed crowd waiting for the main performer to take the stage, when a chorus of voices rises, hands clapping as the house music fades. It was no different […]
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‘Dream Within a Dream‘ is the new single, out today, taken from Lucas Ebert’s new EP ‘Nobody.’  It’s a haunting song that muses on the dreamlike feel that the world can have sometimes – when reality […]
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