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Essentials: The Top 10 Songs from season one of “The Bear”

June 5, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
You have to wonder why there aren’t more TV series about restaurants. It’s a good question. Ensemble casts work well on television and restaurants have staffs which are made-to-order ensembles. In restaurants, people work long hours, […]
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Interview: Caleb Caudle values endurance and radical empathy

June 3, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Caleb Caudle has been making music for longer than you might guess since the night he walked up to an open mic night, sat down and strummed his first chord in a live setting. He sings […]
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More People Should Really Know About: Time Sawyer

June 3, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
Mark Twain’s Tom Sawyer lived with his aunt and half-brother on the wrong side of Civil War Missouri. He loved skipping school to go fishing and cavort in the local swimming hole. He was a prankster […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Silver Teeth (StevieRay Latham and Josh Flowers)

June 3, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Silver Teeth are newborns according to its two principals, StevieRay Latham and Josh Flowers. “We both live in South London now,” Latham said, “but Josh is originally from Leeds and I grew up in the South […]
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Interview: Chatham Rabbits can pull from a hatful of songs

May 28, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
It’s hard to pin down and stamp a genre like a Notary Public would on Chatham Rabbits. The husband-and-wife duo of Austin and Sarah McCombie started out in bluegrass and old-timey music, but they have taken […]

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Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]
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Tift Merritt “Sugar”

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Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]
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Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

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Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

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Interview: Matt Patershuk writes songs for the small moments we all share

June 24, 2026 1
As an animal lover and caretaker of horses, dogs and cats, the latest album from Canadian singer-songwriter Matt Patershuk certainly caught my attention. Dog Tiger Horses on Red Hen Records (2025) is green as grass, country-folk […]
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Video Interview: Susto’s Justin Osbourne on Susto Stringband

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Susto are an American indie band who have managed to build their own following with their individual take on alt-country and americana that reflects the fact that they were formed in Charleston, South Carolina. Justin Osbourne […]
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Interview: Tinsley Ellis brings the good word acoustically nowadays

June 17, 2026 0
In 2025, Tinsley Ellis returned to the deep roots of the blues after the success of his previous album, Naked Truth (Alligator Records, 2024). There are many different styles of playing wrapped up in his music, […]

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Video Premiere: The Blue Highways “Play Johnny Play”

May 31, 2019 1
Now here’s a thing.  The very up and coming indeed Blue Highways new single “Play Johnny Play” features some great UK Americana guitarists including a couple of Champs as well.  A proper piece of rock’n’roll featuring […]
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Dirty Streets “The Sound” – Listen

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The Dirty Streets hail out of Memphis, and continue a tradition of powerful Southern Rock, although just to cover all bases they also don’t fall too far from bands like Mountain by blending in some hard […]
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Moonshroom “Take A Trip”

June 19, 2025 0
Joyous, trippy debut raises a smile. Moonshroom. Now there’s a name. Formed in 2022 by Kansas City songwriters Lily B Moonflower and Jake Keegan, they call their mix of Americana, bluegrass, country, folk and rock, Grassadelic […]

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