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About Graeme Tait
Hi. I'm Graeme, a child of the sixties, eldest of three, born into a Forces family. Keen guitar player since my teens, (amateur level only), I have a wide, eclectic taste in music and an album collection that exceeds 5.000. Currently reside in the beautiful city of Lincoln.
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Live Review: Sorrel Nation, Newbald Village Hall, North Newbald, Yorkshire – 23rd February 2025

March 4, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
The first show of the new year at the Newbald Village Hall, and the first of a new venture for early evening Sunday concerts, with the doors opening at 4.30 pm and the gig commencing half […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Tom Russell Songs

February 27, 2025 Graeme Tait 23
Tom Russell requires little if any introduction to the readers of these pages, or for that fact, anyone who is instinctively drawn to the art of the singer-songwriter within the Americana genre. With a recording career […]
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Sunny War “Armageddon In A Summer Dress”

February 25, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
A hauntingly majestic follow-up to her 2023 breakthrough album. Having released one of the best albums of 2023 with “Anarchist Gospel”, Sunny War (a.k.a. Sydney Ward) spent much of the following year on the road, opening […]
Album Reviews

AUK’s Monthly EP’s Round-Up – February 2025

February 19, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
Okay, so it only seems like yesterday that I was putting together ‘January’s EP’s Round-Up’, and here we are again. And yes, mornings are lighter earlier, evenings are stretching out, and one could almost believe that […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Kim Richey, + Carla J. Easton, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, 9th February 2025

February 17, 2025 Graeme Tait 2
A  Sunday evening show at the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, Lincolnshire’s premier americana music venue, is quite a rare event, but there again the night’s headline act more than warranted any change to the normal […]

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Something for the weekend: Mary Chapin Carpenter & the Mountain Goats “Put the Message in the Box”

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Well that’s it from us for this week, an exciting day for us as we announce full details for our 25 year event which takes place in Liverpool later this year – you can find more […]
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Abigail Lapell announces new album “Shadow Child” out in May

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Award-winning Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell has announced her upcoming new album Shadow Child, an album about motherhood whose nine songs each represent a month of gestation, will be released May 8th via Outside Music. Lapell has […]
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Tragedy turned into thoughtful, considered, often uplifting songwriting. At the end of 2024, Michael Weston King and Lou Dalgleish shared their first artistic reactions to the loss of their granddaughter Bebe King, at Southport with a […]

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A few months ago, we got an album of more (acoustic) junk from the Junkies. Okay, that is a horrible image. Better start over. Michael Timmins, along with siblings Margo and Peter, and Alan Anton, the […]
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Jim White and Trey Blake’s album “Precious Bane” is, even in January, in the running for the 2025 best of list.  It was reviewed in these pages by Jonny Brick with the full back story of […]
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Track Premiere: Jenner Fox “Heart Tattoo”

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