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Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it

Can’t Live With it, Can’t Live Without It: Warren Zevon

December 11, 2024 Paul Kerr 6

I suppose part of the worth of this feature is, having selected an artist, you choose a favourite album, and then, pick another and damn it with faint praise. Here at AUK we’re not really in […]

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AUK Back Pages No. 10

December 4, 2024 Paul Kerr 0

We’re at the back end of 2007 this time around. So, alongside the four monthly issued CDs there’s an end of year bonus, a best of 2007. Before delving into them we have our usual dive […]

Album Reviews

Reissue: Isobel Campbell & Mark Lanegan “Ballad of the Broken Seas”

November 29, 2024 Paul Kerr 0

18 years on, Isobel Campbell and Mark Lanegan remain the best torch bearers for sweet and sour dusty ballads. Originally released in 2006, “Ballad Of The Broken Seas” saw the unlikely pairing of Scotland’s Isobel Campbell, […]

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Book review: Oliver Gray “Austin Healing – Cautionary Tales From 20 Years Of SXSW”

November 14, 2024 Paul Kerr 1

Oliver Gray should be known to AUK readers as our regular Austin correspondent having reviewed the annual SXSW Festival for us over several years. He is, of course, not an Austinite, nor even American. He is […]

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Dwight Yoakam “Brighter Days”

November 12, 2024 Paul Kerr 5

Veteran New Country artist returns with a vibrant new album. It’s been nine years since Dwight Yoakam last graced us with an album, a long time out of the limelight which he once commanded. It’s fair […]

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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 […]

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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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Interview: Elles Bailey on collaboration, her voice, and not taking her story away

February 3, 2026 0

When one says award-winning artist about a singer, Elles Bailey would certainly fall into this category, having been named to an impressive list, including: UK Americana Live Act of the Year, UK Blues Artist of the […]

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Jason Isbell announces short run of EU/UK solo dates

November 27, 2024 0

You get the feeling that as he stepped off the stage at the Eventim Apollo (better known to music lovers as the Hammersmith Odeon) on 25th November, Jason Isbell signed off on the press release for […]

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Adrian Crowley “The Watchful Eye of the Stars”

May 14, 2021 0

A spellbinding voice draws you in while gentle melodies and lyrics capture a mysterious kind of magic. “Day One, I stole onboard a northbound ship / No one saw me or my shadow / On the […]

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Emily Nenni “On The Ranch”

November 7, 2022 0

Emily Nenni’s debut album is a delightful throwback to the kind of classic country that’s a rarity these days ‘On The Ranch’ is the debut album from California-born but Nashville-based singer Emily Nenni which with its […]

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