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From the AUK Archives: Interview with Drive By Truckers’ Mike Cooley

January 25, 2024 Mark Whitfield 2

This interview was originally published in October 2016. Drive By Truckers released their new album, “American Band”, on September 30th and it is already causing quite a stir, both within their fan base and beyond. The […]

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Mark Knopfler announces new album “One Deep River”

January 25, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Mark Knopfler will release his tenth solo studio album on April 12th 2024 on his own British Grove label via EMI. Entitled “One Deep River”, it features “12 unhurriedly elegant new Knopfler songs, and his warm […]

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The Wandering Hearts return with new album “Mother”

January 24, 2024 Mark Whitfield 2

British trio The Wandering Hearts will release their new album “Mother” on 22nd March. Produced by Steve Milbourne, their Chrysalis Records debut is a handcrafted patchwork of folk-style storytelling, hooks and rock energy threaded together by […]

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Preview: Gate to Southwell Festival 2024

January 22, 2024 Mark Whitfield 0

Headliners confirmed for GTSF 4th to 7th July 2024. There are few things better to do while you watch the rain batter down in the middle of January than imagine yourself basking in the warm sun […]

Tracks

Something for the weekend: Sam Outlaw “Ways to Go”

January 19, 2024 Mark Whitfield 2

That’s it from us for another weekend dear reader. You can find details of local events around you supporting Palestine here – sorry folks, for as long as this goes on, we are going to keep […]

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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 […]

Behind the Songs

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 […]

Interviews

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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Video: Amigo The Devil “Cocaine And Abel”

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We’re a little late to this guy but he has serious talent and deserves all the exposure he can get.  This is taken from his outstanding album Everything Is Fine.

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Americana Vinyl Treasures: The Blasters “American Music”

October 30, 2023 2

The Blasters’ debut album was released on Ron Weiser’s small Californian label Rollin’ Rock Records and limited to 2000 copies only. It is very rare to find copies in the UK, so I couldn’t believe my […]

Book Reviews

Paperback Riders – Armistead Maupin “Tales of the City”

February 24, 2023 0

Many of Dickens, Wilkie Collins and Conan Doyle’s novels started life as magazine serials. This way of publishing new work remained popular in the USA and the first four titles in the ‘Tales of the City’ […]

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