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Riding the one eyed horse into dead town the scales fell from his eyes. Music was the only true god at once profane and divine The dust blew through his mind as he considered the offering... And then he scored it out of ten and waited for the world to wake up
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Patterson Hood announces new solo album “Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams”

November 22, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

His first for 12 years – packed with friends and Truckers. Patterson Hood the co-founder of of The Drive By Truckers and fierce political commentator has revealed his latest work as a solo album called “Exploding […]

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Thanks be! Maverick Festival announce their annual… ahem… Thanksgiving Ranch Party lineup

November 21, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Let’s get this party started. One of AUK’s favourite festivals has announced the lineup to its annual Thanksgiving party, this year taking place on the 29th November, and it’s a hoolie! The various acts come from […]

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New Seth Lakeman album and new year tour on its way

November 21, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

He’s not fiddling whilst Rome burns… AUK favourite and Mercury nominated musician Seth Lakeman is set to release his self-produced new album “The Granite Way” on his own Honour Oak Records on 14th February 2025, with […]

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Eckman returns to deliver a new album and the promise of a tour -čudovito!

November 19, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Chris Eckman is one of those songwriters that we love here at AUK Towers. He’s proved it over the years as the songwriter of the Seattle rock-folk band The Walkabouts, as well as across a six-album […]

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Italian alt country pioneers Satellite Inn tour UK for the first time ever

November 18, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Their first dates in sixteen years! You read that right, Satellite Inn are heading this way in late November for a run of just four shows in support of their self-titled album released this year. Don’t […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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The Hacienda Brothers were heading for commercial success having built  a growing live following and being nominated as Band Of The Year in the 2007 Americana Music Awards when their front man and co-founder Chris Gaffney […]

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