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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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Wren Hinds “Don’t Die In The Bundu”

July 26, 2023 Graeme Tait 0
The warm soft winds of Hinds’ African homeland embrace this first offering for Bella Union. ‘Don’t Die In The Bundu’ is the fourth official album release from Wren Hinds who hails from the southeast coast of […]
The Black Feathers, live, (THL) Festival, 16/7/23
Live Reviews

Live Review: The (THL) Festival, Kirton in Lindsey, North Lincolnshire – 16th July 2023

July 24, 2023 Graeme Tait 2
The lyrics, “Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun, if the sun don’t come you get a tan from standing in the English rain,” by some small band from Liverpool with an uncanny understanding […]
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Live Review: Laura Cantrell + Doug Levitt, The Metronome, Nottingham – 4th July, 2023

July 12, 2023 Graeme Tait 6
Tonight’s much anticipated concert by Laura Cantrell had created such a demand for tickets that the fantastic people at ‘Cosmic American Music’ who are responsible for putting on much of the best live music in the […]
Previews

Live Preview: The (THL) Festival, Klassic Park, Kirton – 16th July 2023

July 6, 2023 Graeme Tait 2
Sunday 16th July sees the return of The (THL) Festival, a one-day music event held at The Klassic Park at Kirton in Lindsey in North Lincolnshire which last year saw such Americana luminaries as Hannah Aldridge […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Marty Stuart “This Ones Gonna Hurt You (For A Long Long Time)” featuring Travis Tritt

July 3, 2023 Graeme Tait 0
Following on from last week’s contribution from my colleague Kimberly Bright and her wonderful choice of Johnny Cash’s version of ‘We’ll Meet Again’, I have chosen to return to the Cash album from which the track appeared […]

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The Woodstock festival held in 1969 at Yasgur’s farm, Bethel, New York, is one of those truly emblematic moments in the history of contemporary music, and indeed in the birth of americana. And of course it’s […]
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Igloo Hearts are James and Katie MacGregor, a married folk-pop duo from North Wales. For our next AUK mini-gig, they kindly agreed to share some of their latest songs with our readers and viewers. Since appearing […]

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Insane amounts of sweets and knowing your stuff. The run-in towards the end of term begins as the exams finish but in some cases this means that for at least four weeks (or more) some year […]
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Dexy’s album works to expand the ever-changing Americana genre but achieves mixed results. Dexy’s latest album, ‘Sleeping Through Summer’, takes you back to the days of bar-room punk music inspired by early 70s Rolling Stones and […]
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If you put “wacky” into a thesaurus you get words and phrases like madcap, weird, zany, way-out, off the wall and mad, amongst others. Origami Ghost’s new album ‘Healthy Travel Options’ is all of those adjectives […]

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