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Video: The Avett Brothers “No Hard Feelings”

February 6, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Single taken from their latest album “True Sadness” which given the state of the world at the moment you’d be advised to listen to with caution (or a large bottle of whiskey)

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Hear rare OCMS track from new “best of” collection – Listen

February 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Look out for a review of the new collection very soon here on AUK.  In the meantime, “whet” your appetite as they say with this taster, courtesy of Rolling Stone who report: “Ketch Secor serenades a […]

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Wesley Stace and the Jayhawks release another preview track of album – Listen

February 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

This is one we’re really looking forward to – the new album by Wesley Stace “featuring the Jayhawks” is out 3 weeks today on the Yep Roc label if we’re all still here, and they’ve released […]

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Second UK Americana Awards – here’s the list of winners

February 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

We’ve just returned from the second UK Americana Awards which took place at London’s St John at Hackney last night, rounding off two days of activities at this year’s Americana Music Association UK conference, with performances from […]

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Tommy Hale announces UK dates

February 2, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Following on from the release of his third solo album “Magnificent Bastard” last Autumn (great title), Dallas songwriter Tommy Hale has announced a series of UK dates for the Spring, where he’ll be joined by members […]

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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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We’ve written about Ron Pope’s most recent album ‘American Man, American Music’ but this new single is not taken from that release.  It stands alone as a testament to Pope’s antipathy to…TikTok.  That surprised you.  Bet […]

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