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Beth Bombara “Curious And Free” – no words version….

August 16, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Wednesday afternoon, so it is instrumental composition time. You’ll recall that Beth Bombara has a new album coming called ‘It All Goes Up’ which we’re pretty excited about. Well, today we have an opportunity that doesn’t […]

Mindy Murray “George B Fell” – appropriately named protagonist of historical incident

August 16, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Very much in the style of “if you build it they will come“, Mindy Murray was inspired to write today’s song after reading a newspaper article that began with the words…”I can’t believe that no one […]

Track Premiere: Gregg Hill “New Orleans Again”

August 15, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Gregg Hill hails from Chicago but not exclusively – he has also called New Jersey, Dallas, D.C., NY home, and currently it is New Orleans. He travels extensively. Along with being a singer/songwriter, his sculptures are […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: squeezebox musings guide us to the birth of folk rock on “Adieu To All Judges And Juries”

August 14, 2023 Jonathan Aird 1

The last link in the chain celebrated the power of the concertina and other associated squeezebox instruments, and noted that “Jimmy Shand memories had similarly been set aside since Richard Thompson added the instrument to his […]

Track Premiere: Crowes Pasture “Don’t Blink”

August 14, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0

Crowes Pasture are Monique Byrne (vocals and banjo) and Andy Rogovin (vocals and guitar) – the duo takes its name from the salt marsh and tidal flats known as Crowes Pasture, hidden away on the north […]

Something for the weekend: Teenage Fanclub “There Was You”

August 21, 2026 1

Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a new song from Teenage Fanclub who will release their new album Do Not Dare To Dream on 9th October via […]

Alicia Blue “Country Desire”

August 21, 2026 0

A confident debut that shows the Nashville-based singer-songwriter has a vigour that sets her apart from the crowd. For singer-songwriter Alicia Blue, Waylon Jennings isn’t so much an influence as someone she calls “a creative angel […]

Classic Clips: Michael Hurley “Rhinefarm Session” – Vineyard at Gundlach Bundschu, 2015

August 21, 2026 0

Michael Hurley died last year, and wasn’t it starting to look like he wasn’t the dying kind? Every now and then someone goes, and it’s only then that you realise what you’d been hoping for: that […]

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