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Interview: Kevin Connolly builds songs with passion, wit and wordcraft

July 29, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Anyone who’s caught Kevin Connolly’s live act knows he’s rarely at a loss for words. Speaking his mind like a street-corner preacher, the folk bard uses the stage as a pulpit for his witty wordcraft, both […]

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Brooks Williams

July 29, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Writing and performing for over thirty years, Brooks Williams has carved out his own niche and earned a reputation as a superior guitarist to go along with prolific songcraft that has produced a staggering 34 albums […]

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Live Review: Counting Crows + The Gaslight Anthem, Red Hat, Raleigh, NC – 17th July 2025

July 25, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

It didn’t seem to matter that the heat index was in the 100s in Raleigh, North Carolina, as Counting Crows with support from The Gaslight Anthem drew a near-capacity crowd, making a hot summer night feel […]

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More People Really Should Know About: Hollow Hand

July 22, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Brighton is south of London, and a quick train in and out gets you there. Max Kinghorn-Mills remembers moving there, mentally prepared for leaving home after finishing his second album as Hollow Hand in a flat […]

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The Wood Brothers “Puff of Smoke”

July 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0

Progressive americana trio brings inventive songwriting and lyrical wit on ninth album. Across a 20-year shared history, The Wood Brothers have mixed masterful songcraft with a blend of music that is impractical to genre-tag. You’ll find […]

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Something for the weekend: Joy Oladokun feat. Sheryl Crow “I’d Miss the Birds”

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Jingle Bells Friday – I want to see the bright Xmas lights tonight

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Sam Shackleton “Scottish Cowboy Ballads and Early American Folk Songs”

Album Reviews
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Classic Clips: Warren Zevon “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner” – The Late Show With David Letterman – 30th October 2002

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Live Review: Natalie Wildgoose + Elanor Moss, St. Pancras Old Church, London – 17th November 2025

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  • Something for the weekend: Joy Oladokun feat. Sheryl Crow “I’d Miss the Birds”
  • Jingle Bells Friday – I want to see the bright Xmas lights tonight
  • Sam Shackleton “Scottish Cowboy Ballads and Early American Folk Songs”
  • Classic Clips: Warren Zevon “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner” – The Late Show With David Letterman – 30th October 2002
  • Live Review: Natalie Wildgoose + Elanor Moss, St. Pancras Old Church, London – 17th November 2025
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Interview: Dan Bern has still got his fastball, and a change-up

December 2, 2025 1

In the smart and lively songs of Dan Bern, nuances are at work like honeybees in a hive. A busy swarm of subtleties generates a nucleus of narrative honeycomb that has more layers than an archaeologist’s […]

Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Dillon Warnek “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep”

December 2, 2025 0

Dillon Warnek’s “As the Neighbors Tried to Sleep” is a sharp and dizzying collection of songs about everything and anything. “Rolling Stone” raved that his debut album “Now That It’s All Over”, was full of “wry character […]

Interviews

Caught Light: Tony Dekker of Great Lake Swimmers on time, trust and the art of letting go

November 24, 2025 1

As we meet, Tony Dekker is sitting outside a café in Vancouver, Canada. It’s a fitting setting for a conversation with the Great Lake Swimmers’ frontman – calm, thoughtful and quietly attuned to the world around […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

March 12, 2020 4

I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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