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Lucy Rose releases new single/video online – Watch (and listen!)

March 2, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Lucy Rose has announced details of a new single, her first through Communion Records, and the first music to be lifted from a new album project. It follows a film trailer which launched last week, detailing […]
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Pokey LaFarge releases song about current racial tension in US – Listen

March 2, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Well worth a listen if you have a spare three minutes and 40 seconds in your life, and he’s playing some dates in the Netherlands next month. Rolling Stone reports: “Roots performer Pokey LaFarge calls St. […]
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Ryan Adams hits number one in 3 US Charts

March 2, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
And he’s number one in the UK’s americana chart too. Billboard reports: “Ryan Adams takes no prisoners as he arrives at No. 1 on Billboard’s Top Rock Albums, Alternative Albums and Americana/Folk Albums charts (dated March […]
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Punch Brothers’ Noam Pikelny Performs “Old Banjo” in preparation for new album release – Watch

March 1, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
This is rather fine if you have 5 minutes to spare, some nice covers on the way too. Rolling Stone reports: “Sometime last winter, Noam Pikelny grew restless. He’d recently wrapped up a tour with the Punch […]
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Noble Jacks announce UK dates

March 1, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Foot-stomping folksters Noble Jacks will release their long-awaited debut album “What The Hammer” on March 24th on Union Music Store, and Harvey’s Brewery in Lewes will be unveiling ‘Noble Jacks,’ a special limited-run brew to coincide with […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Tracks by the least likely suspects

July 23, 2026 1
Before you shout at me remember this is supposed to be fun…. I have opened up and bared my soul on a couple of occasions about my past as a teenage rocker in the 1970s, with […]
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Ed Askew “The Last Painting”

July 23, 2026 0
Profound, moving and beautiful reveries on posthumous release from ‘Outsider Folk’ poet. Ed Askew was a New York artist, poet, songwriter and genuine underground legend. Having first broken through with his self-titled album in 1968 (subsequently […]
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Conway Savage “Too Dark To See”

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Posthumous tribute to impressive solo career of former Bad Seeds member. For Nick Cave’s many devoted followers, this anthology of the solo work of Conway Savage is likely to be a must-have addition to their collection. […]

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  • Ed Askew “The Last Painting”
  • Conway Savage “Too Dark To See”
  • Star studded Felice Brothers tribute album to arrive in October
  • Buddy Miller returns with star-spangled first album in 15 years
  • Evan Honer “If You Wanna Know” – I’d wait for you
  • Video: Mason Jennings “If” – the power of hope and love in the human heart
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Interview: Have Gun, Will Travel is constantly evolving – What a concept!

July 22, 2026 0
Have Gun, Will Travel is the name of the band with the emphasis on travel. Not so much touring all over the world, but exploration, whether in their three concept albums or the songs written for […]
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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 4
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]
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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]

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New single from Heidi Talbot features Mark Knopfler, album date announced

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Heidi Talbot has announced their latest album, ‘Sing it For a Lifetime‘, will be released on 20th May. This, her eighth album, comes after the 2020 co-written album with Matt Rollins’ Mosaic‘. The album was written […]
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Folk Roundup – Clementine Lovell, Ezmay Grace, Faun Fables, Natalie Padilla, Odette Michell

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For this month’s folk round-up, we give AUK’s very own folk hero, Jonathan Aird, a well-earned month off. Looking at this fine selection of five new albums, he has missed a good one. We have a […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Robbie Fulks ‘”Country Love Songs” (Bloodshot, 1996)

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It’s late July 2019 and my latest Bloodshot records update drops through the electronic mailbox. My excitement is palpable. Finally, after 23 years, one of the finest records ever to pass through my CD laser beams […]

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