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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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Classic Americana Albums

Classic Americana Albums: Jesse Winchester “Jesse Winchester”

April 6, 2022 Graeme Tait 2
“You can’t talk about the best songwriters and not include him.” That headline above might seem like a bold statement, but when you realise those words came from none other than the Nobel Prize winner for Literature, […]
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Good Looks “Bummer Year”

April 6, 2022 Graeme Tait 0
Promising debut suggests future looks good for Austin based quartet. Back when the world seemed a simpler place, a debut album was seen as the first opportunity for a new artist or band to start finding […]
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Band of Horses “Things Are Great”

March 11, 2022 Graeme Tait 0
Horses return to form with a more rugged, less sonically sounding sixth. During the lyrics to ‘Crutch‘, the first single from the new Band of Horses album, ‘Things Are Great’, Ben Bridwell sings initially about a time, “When […]
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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Graeme Tait

March 10, 2022 Graeme Tait 0
Well how about that! Barely had time to stretch my feet out under the AUK’s staff writers desk and certainly before I’ve earned any stripes and here I am entrusted with the job of compiling my […]
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Manuel The Band “Things That Can’t Be Seen”

March 2, 2022 Graeme Tait 0
West coast rock with a wide range of musical flavours. Following on from their warmly received 2019 debut album ‘Room for Complication’, Manuel The Band return with “Things That Can’t Be Seen”, offering up a wide […]

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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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I’m Kingfisher “Give Up Together”

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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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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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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

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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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Lewin “Sorrow” – Listen

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Some might say that Lewin, the recording name of Jara Holdert,  brought ‘Sorrow‘ on herself, as in a rather prophetic way today’s song describes how her love might leave her; the small signs that point to […]
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Big Jim Brown and the Speedkings “Devil On The Other Shoulder” (Independent, 2019)

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The Speedkings are whomever Jim Brown is playing with, so this latest release doesn’t have much of a common line-up with 2016’s ‘After All, it’s Been Forever‘ and on any given night his live band is […]
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Stephen Stills “49 Bye-Byes / For What It’s Worth” – Live!

March 27, 2023 1
Another preview of the new live album release from Stephen Stills. ‘Stephen Stills Live At Berkeley 1971′ is released on April 28th as a CD or 2LP set.  You can “deluxe” the LP release – there’s […]

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