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Americana, New Country, Alt-country, No Depression, Twangcore, Cow-punk, Neo-traditionalists, Countrypolitan... whatever.
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Kevin Kinney “Think About It”

January 17, 2023 Guy Lincoln 0
Shapeshifting return of Drivin n Cryin mainstay. Kevin Kinney, head honcho of long-lived (1985 and still going), left-of-the-dial country-folk-southern-indie rock stalwarts Drivin n Cryin is back with a new solo album, his 11th – or it […]
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The Other Side Of Me: Guy Lincoln reckons with the Cynics single-minded devotion to a life in the garage

December 21, 2022 Guy Lincoln 0
The premise of these features is to present an alternative to americana, one that floats our boat and hopefully raises a few interested glances from those of you tuning in. By showcasing a band that we […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: James King and the Lone Wolves “Until the Dawn”

November 28, 2022 Guy Lincoln 1
So let’s stay with Texas. Not much of a stretch for an americana oriented publication to connect two records by means of the lone star state I grant you, but perhaps not the connection that you […]
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Billy Bragg, The Albert Hall, Manchester, 20th November 2021

November 29, 2021 Guy Lincoln 1
Billy Bragg tours and plays gigs, a lot. We’ve missed him this last couple of years and evidently he’s missed us too. He tells us about his lockdown, how he’s missed gigging and his ongoing anxieties […]
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Jesse Malin + Kris Gruen, Greystones Sheffield – Sunday 3rd October 2021

October 13, 2021 Guy Lincoln 0
Expectations were toned down, best to not get too excited, right? If we are indeed ‘post’ anything then it’s possible to observe that the post lockdown / Covid / pandemic gig has been a bit of […]

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Sam Grassie “Burning Of Auchindoun” – flames take you, and be damned

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There is something exciting going on in the world of folk, at least it seems that way, as we seem to be going through one of those periods of renewal when a crop of astonishing musicians […]
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Video Premiere: Brock Davis “Nowhere Near Ready”

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Here’s the video premiere of the heartfelt new single from Santa Cruz, California-based singer-songwriter Brock Davis. The notes tumble and roll from Davis’s guitar in a stream of melody while his reflective, intimate vocal flows over […]
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Luke Winslow-King “Coast of Light”

March 24, 2026 0
An impressive blues-influenced mixture of laid-back and edgier numbers. Coast of Light is Luke Winslow-King’s ninth album after having debuted with Luke Winslow-King in 2008. It is a bit of an outlier from many of the […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
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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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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Video Premiere: The Sweet Things “Ain’t Got Enough Room (In My Heart)”

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Check out the new single from New York band The Sweet Things.  ‘Ain’t Got Enough Room (In My Heart)’ is a bluesy country ballad about failed romance and broken relationships.  The song steadily builds to it’s […]
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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Kimberly Bright

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Man, it is hard to believe we’re already this far into the 21st century! As a Gen X’er, I have to ruefully admit the truth of the meme that we’ll always think 1980 was twenty years […]
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