Keith Hargreaves

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring exclusive Boia Festival line up news from organiser Steve Prior

April 10, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

This week sees festival fever hit the Podcast with two examples to the fore and one to finish the show. First up, Keith chats to Steve Prior about the gorgeous and elemental Boia Festival in St […]

Scotland Bluegrass Festival announces details of line up and expanded location – it’s got Biggar!

April 9, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Scotland’s biggest Bluegrass music festival is about to get even bigger and better. John Sheldon, who is the main man behind the event, a formidable banjo picker himself, first set up the Guildtown event in 1986 […]

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan to be celebrated in Ace compilation featuring a myriad of stars

April 8, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan are to be celebrated by artists such as Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Randy Newman, Carole King and Gerry Goffin, Leonard Cohen, Lee Hazlewood, Brian Wilson and Laura Nyro as part of […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 225 “A Break”

April 7, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

This will be the last article for a while if all goes to plan and I actually get to go on my hols to sunny Spain. Picked a great year to decide to drive all the […]

Jesper Lindell doubles down on on his US pilgrimage with a second album out in June

April 7, 2026 Keith Hargreaves 0

Hot on the heels of the recently released 3614 Jackson Highway, Swedish singer/songwriter Jesper Lindell has released his cover of Otis Clay’s Tryin’ to Live My Life Without You from his forthcoming album Royal, which is […]

artwork for Jack Browning album "Painted Skies"

Jack Browning “Painted Skies”

September 28, 2026 0

London-born singer-songwriter draws on wide Western canvas to create solid sophomore release. Jack Browning’s debut album, Red Eye Radio (2023), may have flown under the AUK radar, but Keith Hargreaves recently clocked the imminent release of […]

James McMurtry- photo credit: Mary Bruton Keating

Preview: Glasgow Americana Festival 2026, 30th September – 4th October

September 28, 2026 0

The 20th annual Glasgow Americana festival will take place at various places around the city between 30th September and 4th October with a mixture of some familiar and new faces. There will be over 50 musicians […]

Richard Thompson “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” – it’s a kind of magic

September 28, 2026 0

Best. Finest. Interesting words. The Los Angeles Times says of Richard Thompson: “The finest rock songwriter after Dylan and the best electric guitarist since Hendrix.” That was Scott Timberg, who, of course, also worked with Richard […]

Articles by Keith Hargreaves

Latest AUK Podcast now available featuring exclusive Boia Festival line up news from organiser Steve Prior

Scotland Bluegrass Festival announces details of line up and expanded location – it’s got Biggar!

Tom Waits and Kathleen Brennan to be celebrated in Ace compilation featuring a myriad of stars

Sounds from beyond the Shed 225 “A Break”

Jesper Lindell doubles down on on his US pilgrimage with a second album out in June

Jack Browning “Painted Skies”

Preview: Glasgow Americana Festival 2026, 30th September – 4th October

Richard Thompson “Sorcerer’s Apprentice” – it’s a kind of magic

Video: Orange Oak “wilder life” – a declaration of nervousness

Something for the weekend: Listen to the unreleased Tom Petty And The Heartbreakers track from 1978 “Parade Of Loons”