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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’s Classic Clips: Steve Goodman “The City of New Orleans” The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1972

July 2, 2021 Clint West 6
An early performance from the talented Chicago songwriter who died of leukemia in 1984, aged just 36. The Old Grey Whistle Test first broadcast in 1971 and ran through to 1987 when Janet Street-Porter, the BBC’s […]
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Readers’ Picks: The Treetop Flyers “Things Will Change”

July 2, 2021 Clint West 0
Our latest Readers Pick is supplied by Hilary Dean from Bristol and features a great track from The Treetop Flyers’ 2013 debut abum. It’s always nice when a song is connected to a particular time and […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Ernest Tubb “Drivin’ Nails in My Coffin”

June 28, 2021 Clint West 0
AUK’s interviews maestro Martin Johnson is not an easy man to follow. His choice last week also left me trying to follow Guy Clark (how the hell do you do that?) through Martin’s selection of ‘Hemmingway’s […]
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Clint’s Classic Clips: Nanci Griffith “Love at the Five and Dime” BBC 1994

June 25, 2021 Clint West 6
The BBC’s rich musical archive comes up trumps with this captivating performance from 1994. I can’t pinpoint the exact moment when I first came across Nanci Griffith, but it was definitely during the 1980s and almost […]
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Jeremy James Meyer “Alive & OK”

June 23, 2021 Clint West 1
Seattle based songwriter serves up an appetising smorgasbord of raw roots styles for his second album. Jeremy James Meyer is not a name that is widely known in the UK but on the evidence of his […]

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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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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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