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Video premiere: Tommy Emmanuel “Everybody Loves You”

August 23, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

We’re delighted today to premiere the new video for Australian guitar virtuoso Tommy Emmanuel’s ‘Everybody Loves You’ featuring Larry Campbell and Teresa Williams. The song appears on Emmanuel’s current album ‘Accomplice Two’, the follow-up to 2018’s […]

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Rain of Animals announce UK dates for next month

August 22, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

There are some musical duos so meant-to-be-together, you’d hear people say they must be “joined at the hip.” It is fair to say that Aussie americana act Rain of Animals pair sits very squarely in that […]

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Video Premiere: Julian Talamantez Brolaski “No More Lonesome Heartache”

August 22, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

California-based country/Americana singer-songwriter Julian Talamantez Brolaski recently released their new album, ‘It’s Okay Honey’, combining the language of classic country with lyrical innovation and pacing, and we’re delighted to premier their new video today ‘No More […]

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Video: The Miserable Rich “Glue”

August 21, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Those of us who are more long in the tooth will remember a band we were big fans of here at AUK, The Miserable Rich. While not exactly Americana in the traditional sense of the genre, […]

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Something for the weekend: Starpainter “Even in a Car”

August 18, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for another week. We get sent lots of stuff here at AUK as you can imagine, and while we drill down into the best of it for you dear reader, we essentially […]

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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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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 […]

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Dropkick Murphys “Okemah Rising”

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Second helping of Woody Guthrie songs revived by Boston Celtic punk rockers. ‘Okemah Rising’ essentially is ‘This Machine Still Kills Fascists’ volume two, the Boston band releasing the remaining 10 songs recorded in Tulsa’s Church Studio […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Emily Scott Robinson “The Dress”

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Emily Scott Robinson is at the very forefront of new female singer-songwriters with a small but perfectly formed catalogue of outstanding albums, a most engaging personality and a voice to fall in love with. She also […]

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Currently on tour in the UK and Europe to promote 2019’s ‘Everything is Fine’, Amigo The Devil has released a unique take on the classic ‘Delilah’,  made famous by Tom Jones in 1968. Amigo The Devil […]

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