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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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Features

More People Should Really Know About: Riley Catherall

December 9, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
For those of you who, as of yet, have not discovered the undoubted talent that is Riley Catherall, he is a singer-songwriter, originally from the Canberra area of Australia, but now based out of Melbourne, who […]
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Classic Clips: Warren Zevon “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner” – The Late Show With David Letterman – 30th October 2002

December 5, 2025 Graeme Tait 6
Earlier this year, the late-great LA singer-songwriter Warren Zevon was finally inducted into the ‘Rock and Roll Hall of Fame’. With a recording career that spanned twenty-three years, culminating in thirteen studio albums and a string […]
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Dude Cervantes “The Ride Or Die Of Dude Cervantes and The Panchos”

November 27, 2025 Graeme Tait 0
Multifaceted musician, singer-songwriter, record producer, and label owner recruits like-minded artists to record an explosive live set at The Hotel Cafe, Hollywood, in April 2023. In recent years, San Diego-born Daniel Cervantes has been enthralling audiences […]
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Live Reviews

Live Review: The Pleasures + Andrew Leahey, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 15th November 2025

November 24, 2025 Graeme Tait 2
The contribution made by Australian artists to the Country and Americana music scene worldwide is far too often overlooked, particularly on this side of the pond, yet they have produced some of the finest musicians and […]
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Reviews

AUK’s EP Round-Up – November 2025

November 21, 2025 Graeme Tait 2
What! November already! Where has the year gone? It feels like only yesterday that we were embarking on a new adventure, excited about the forthcoming EPs that would continue to enthral us through the onset of […]

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For The Sake Of The Song: Joni Mitchell “Woodstock”

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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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Nordic americana with a slightly heavier tinge. I’m Kingfisher is the alter ego of Swedish singer-songwriter Thomas Jonsson. Give Up Together is his sixth album under that guise and comes three years after his last release, […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Igloo Hearts

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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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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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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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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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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

April 27, 2026 0
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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Husband and wife duo Tim & Esther O’Connor preview a fine slow burning song from their forthcoming new album with a guest appearance from Graeme Duffin, guitarist with Wet Wet Wet and Esther’s father.  There’s a […]
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Olav Larsen “Stream of Consciousness”

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Exquisite album of outstanding song-writing and perfectly restrained duets. You come across some strange combinations as a reviewer, especially in the country and Americana genre. Over the years, this writer discovered quite a lot about both […]
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Video: AlascA – “Red Herring”

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More evidence that Americana is something approaching a universal musical language comes from the Netherlands in the shape of AlascA and a live version of this excellent track from their latest album, Plea For Peace, out […]

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