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Something for the weekend: Merce Lemon “Backyard Lover”

October 11, 2024 Mark Whitfield 2

Well that’s it from us for another week, a week in which we saw the anniversary of the start of the Gaza genocide but as Amnesty pointed out this week, in reality it didn’t start on […]

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Something for the weekend: Kris Kristofferson “Don’t Let the Bastards (Get You Down)”

October 4, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for another week dear reader. If you’re an AUK supporter your new exclusive playlist will be with you at 5pm. In the meantime, who else could we leave you this week with a […]

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Something for the weekend: Christy Moore “Victor Jara”

September 27, 2024 Mark Whitfield 3

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. I have been making my way over recent months through the lovely “Poetry for the Many” anthology put together by Jeremy Corbyn and Len McCluskey. It’s […]

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Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “Something’s Always Wrong” (Acoustic)

September 20, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. Before we sign off for the week, just to note that there’s a national demo for Palestine tomorrow here in Liverpool partly because Freebies Starmer is […]

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Something for the weekend: Margo Price ft Billy Strings “Too Stoned to Cry”

September 13, 2024 Mark Whitfield 1

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. We’re putting our feet in a bucket of warm water while we enjoy a Mexican Martini just to get over the exhaustion of finishing series two […]

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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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For The Wood Brothers’ ‘Little Bit Sweet’, Texan artist, Gary Dorsey, has combined live performances, animation and old film footage cleverly to create an absorbing video.  It’s a perfect fit for a song that features engaging […]

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