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The Wood Brothers announce UK dates for 2024

October 3, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

The Wood Brothers have announced a headline tour of the UK and Europe in February 2024. Supporting their new album, ‘Heart Is The Hero’, these will be the first shows the band has played overseas since […]

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Preview: Fairport Convention announce Autumn 2023 UK Tour, celebrating 56 years of British folk rock

October 2, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

We do tend to view some bands as Americana alumni royalty here in AUK Towers, so it’s a delight to announce that following their return to the fields of Oxfordshire for their Cropredy Convention in August, […]

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Something for the weekend: Brad Paisley “The Medicine Will”

September 29, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Well that’s it for us for this week dear reader. Apologies for all the site glitches, we are either unlucky or being hacked by the Russians. We wouldn’t normally feature a mainstream country artist on these […]

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Good Lovelies announce UK tour for 2024

September 29, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Canadian folk/country harmony trio, Good Lovelies have announced a 12-date tour of the UK in support of their new album, ‘We Will Never Be The Same’, which lands next week on October 6th via Outside Music. […]

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Gillian Welch classic to get reel-to-reel release

September 28, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Gillian Welch’s 2011 album, the GRAMMY-nominated ‘The Harrow & The Harvest’ is going to be released for the first time ever on reel-to-reel tape via her own Acony Records. David Rawlings reveals about the release, “as […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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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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Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

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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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And AUK will be there catering to all your dog/americana related needs. Rolling Stone Country reports: “This year’s AmericanaFest will close out with Emmylou Harris’ Woofstock benefit concert, featuring performances by Jamey Johnson, John Hiatt and […]

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Following on from Wilco’s Passenger Side, I went down a Jeff Tweedy rabbit hole looking at some other projects he’s been involved in and ended up with Golden Smog. An occasional and shape-shifting combination of like-minded […]

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