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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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Album Reviews

AUK’s Monthly EP’s Round-Up – November 2024

November 25, 2024 Graeme Tait 2
Well, we might still be over four weeks until the big day, but by the bumper size of this months EP’s goody bag you would be forgiven for thinking that Christmas had come early. So without […]
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Laura Marling “Patterns In Repeat”

November 12, 2024 Graeme Tait 0
Marling’s eighth studio album is a deceptively simplistic offering that permeates a sense of contentment throughout. Laura Marling began work on “Pattern In Repeat”, shortly after the birth of her daughter, and first child, back in […]
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For The Sake Of The Song: Michael Martin Murphey “Geronimo’s Cadillac”

November 11, 2024 Graeme Tait 4
For those people in the know, any suggestion that Michael Martin Murphey would make a perfect candidate for our ‘More People Really Should Know About’ feature would be seen as nothing short of insulting and ignorant. […]
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Classic Clips: JD Souther “Doolin – Dalton” – The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1973

November 8, 2024 Graeme Tait 2
It is one of life’s strange conundrums in that it is only after we lose something, or more pertinently someone, that we realise their worth and impact on our own personal journey on this mortal coil. […]
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Paul Kelly “Fever Longing Still”

November 7, 2024 Graeme Tait 6
Creative fire still burns for Australia’s finest songsmith with first album release of the decade. With “Fever Longing Still”, his 29th studio album, and first solo release of self-penned songs since 2018’s “Nature”, Paul Kelly has […]

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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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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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Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and while we tend to swerve paying a blind bit of notice to Morrisey these days, the news that Smiths bassist Andy Rourke has died is […]

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