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Our new supporters playlist comes out today – win tickets to see Jerry Leger live

March 7, 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 The Delines, Jason Isbell, Holly Lovell, Rhona Macfarane, Patterson […]

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Something for the weekend: Alison Krauss & Union Station “Granite Mills”

February 28, 2025 Mark Whitfield 2

Well that’s it from us for this week, Fridays have basically become the most exciting day of the week because you get a new episode of Severance. It’s given us some ideas for our writing team, […]

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Playing on the Farm 2025 aka Dancing to the Dead is on the way

February 28, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

60 years on from the Grateful Dead’s first incarnation as the Warlocks it may surprise many aficionados of the Great American Songbook to know there is a thriving Deadhead scene this side of the water – […]

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Something for the weekend: Truman Sinclair “Joel Roberts”

February 21, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a track from a new to these pages 22 year old artist called Truman Sinclair whose debut album “American Recordings” was […]

Tracks

Only Child “That Fateful Day” – experiencing the grace grief can bring

February 18, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0

We are always happy to support local acts around these parts, and so we’re delighted to share that Only Child have dropped the final song before their long-awaited fifth album lands in March. ‘That Fateful Day’, […]

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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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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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James Hyland is from Texas. Like many from Texas, he is not just from Texas; he IS Texas.  Hyland started as a member of the South Austin Jug Band, a casual party bluegrass group with no […]

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