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About Keith Hargreaves
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
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 102

June 30, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 3

A dawning realisation. Three weeks of school left and a school trip to Paris involving 81 kids and a 01.00 start time for the coach!  That horror aside, the slow inevitable march to my final lessons […]

Album Reviews

Erin K “Sink to Swim”

June 28, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

New album from London dwelling indie darling. Erin Kleh’s previous outing 2019’s ‘I Need Sound’ opened the door for her and ‘Sink to Swim’ should at the very least prop the door open for her audience to […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 101

June 23, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 3

Your listening treat is here! Some lovely feedback about last week’s show on CRMK (Tuesdays 7-9pm) and the Mixcloud linked below. Many thanks. Some of you had issues with the playback on the link returning to […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 100

June 16, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 8

Embrace the change – a weekend listen. So here it is, as retirement from full-time teaching approaches as change to the format for this column. As a good friend pointed out ‘ Hang on, now instead […]

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Justin Rutledge “Something Easy”

June 15, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0

Smooth, smooth sounds of summer? Opening with the lines ‘I was an angry young man’ this album attempts to wrongfoot listeners with its sentiments whilst delivering a shimmering, melodic, slowly building ballad tinged with melancholy. By […]

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Preview: Blues guitarist extraordinaire Samantha Fish heads to UK for dates

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The latest AUK Podcast now live featuring not one but two interviews!

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  • Classic Clips: Tom Russell “The Last Time I Saw Hank” – Knuckleheads Saloon, Kansas City, 16th September 2017
  • Book Review: Jay Nachman with Graham Parker and The Rumour “Graham Parker’s Howlin’ Wind”
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  • The latest AUK Podcast now live featuring not one but two interviews!
  • Track Premiere: Eric Brandt “Size Of Diamonds”
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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

February 10, 2026 0

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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Lucinda Williams “Where The Song Will Find Me” – Waiting for the muse to turn up

May 30, 2023 0

Lucinda Williams is a legend, and never more so than in her resilient majesty on recent tours and here with a song from the new album ‘Stories from a Rock n Roll Heart’ (out June 30th via […]

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Track Premiere: Sean Whiting “Just The Same”

April 16, 2019 0

Kentuckian Sean Whiting hasn’t always been a musician, having previously made his way as a coal miner and a truck driver.  And he pulls this blue-collar background into his new album ‘High Expectations‘ from which ‘Just […]

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Bill Callahan confirmed as headliner for EOTR 2017

March 9, 2017 0

The battle between Green Man and End of the Road for the best americana festival vibe this year continues as Uncut report: “Bill Callahan has been announced as the final headliner for this year’s End Of The Road […]

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