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Margo Price returns with new album “Hard Headed Woman”

June 12, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Margo Price has announced the release of new album “Hard Headed Woman”,  described as “a hell-bent collection of country music that reconnects with her roots and further redefines what it means to be a modern outlaw”, […]

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Lucinda Williams returns to the UK & Ireland for 2026 tour

June 11, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Lucinda Williams has announced nine dates for next January and February including a show at London’s Barbican. It’s her first UK dates since she played the Indigo at the 02 in 2024. Spending much of this […]

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Josh Ritter announces new album “I Believe In You, My Honeydew”

June 11, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1

AUK favourite songwriter, musician, artist and best-selling author Josh Ritter will release his new album “I Believe In You, My Honeydew” on September 12th via Thirty Tigers, and he’s released the first track from it ‘You […]

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Something for the weekend: Trevor Sensor “Chiron, Galactus”

June 6, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it from us for another week – if you’re an AUK supporter, your playlist will be with you at 5pm! We leave you dear reader with a song from Midwest singer-songwriter Trevor Sensor which […]

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Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win tickets to see Dawn Landes live

June 6, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by Will Varley, Wednesday, The Minus 5, Herman Dune and […]

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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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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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Here’s the premiere of the latest single from autoharp-player and singer-songwriter Grey DeLisle.  With “Daddy, Can You Fix a Broken Heart”, DeLisle takes us back in time to the country spirit of the 1960s with this […]

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There are special gigs, there are rare gigs, there are gigs that are musical premieres.  Few upcoming gigs offer that combination in quite the same way as the 23rd January and 25th January 2020 appearances of […]

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