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Still searching for the Holy Grail, a 10/10 album, so keep sending them in.
Live Reviews

Live Review: Bronwynne Brent, The Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Café, Glasgow – 27th April 2023

May 5, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
Three years after it was meant to go ahead, Bronwynne Brent hit Glasgow’s Glad Café to fulfil a date which was nixed due to Covid, the singer having to grab a fast cab back to Mississippi […]
Columns

AUK Shortcuts April 2023: Lucy Farrell, Joe Forkan, White Rose Motor Oil, Burning Ferns, Michael Meeking, Mellisa Ruth, Lisa/Liza, The Kirals, Erika Olsen, Duncan Phillips and Innes Wilson’s Freightliner

April 28, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
Our latest Short Cuts, an occasional feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Rising Sons “2:10 Train”

April 17, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
Checking out Martin Johnson’s previous contribution to the chain gang, Ry Cooder and Taj Mahal’s version of ‘Drinkin’ Wine Spo-Dee-O-Dee’, led me back to that pair’s first outing when they were quite unknown. Their band, the […]
Album Reviews

Diana Jones “Better Times Will Come – Reimagined & Remastered”

April 17, 2023 Paul Kerr 1
Diana Jones’ reissue of her 2009 classic scrubs up well and remains a powerful listen. How to improve on near perfection? That’s the conundrum posed when one is confronted by Diana Jones’ latest album, a reconfigured […]
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Videos

Something for the weekend: Parker Millsap with Gillian Welch “Wilderness Within You”

April 14, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
That’s it for another week dear readers and we send you off to the weekend with this just released song from Parker Millsap which finds him on the company of none other than Gillian Welch. ‘Wilderness […]

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John Prine August 2016

The Top Ten America Song of All Time: 2nd – John Prine “Angel From Montgomery” (1971)

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Album cover artwork for Cut Worms "Transmitter"

Cut Worms “Transmitter”

Album Reviews
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Madi Diaz Live 29th October 2022

Essentials: The Top 10 Madi Diaz Songs

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artwork for The Builders and The Butchers album "No Tomorrow"

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John Prine August 2016
Features

The Top Ten America Song of All Time: 2nd – John Prine “Angel From Montgomery” (1971)

April 9, 2026 0
Almost there! There was never much doubt that John Prine would be represented in this list, and, although a number of his songs appeared in the original writers’ lists, the iconic and most covered song of […]
Album cover artwork for Cut Worms "Transmitter"
Album Reviews

Cut Worms “Transmitter”

April 9, 2026 0
This guitar-based pop, produced by Jeff Tweedy, is a departure from previous work. Cut Worms is singer-songwriter Max Clarke, originally from Ohio, but now living in New York. This is his fourth full-length album after Cut […]
Madi Diaz Live 29th October 2022
Essentials

Essentials: The Top 10 Madi Diaz Songs

April 9, 2026 0
Madi Diaz has always known she wanted to be a musician. Growing up in a Quaker household in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, her parents rejected a mainstream education for her and her brother, instead home schooling them, […]

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  • Cut Worms “Transmitter”
  • Essentials: The Top 10 Madi Diaz Songs
  • The Builders and The Butchers “No Tomorrow”
  • Scotland Bluegrass Festival announces details of line up and expanded location – it’s got Biggar!
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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
Interviews

Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

April 7, 2026 0
In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]
Interviews

Interview: Michael Weston King on why “Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore”

April 2, 2026 0
How the worst kind of family tragedy can lead to a career high British americana stalwart and music award winner Michael Weston King is releasing a new solo album, Nothing Can Hurt Me Anymore. On the […]

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Live Reviews

Live Review: The Bros Landreth + Mariel Buckley, Shepherds Bush Empire – 1st September 2022

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“Sorry it took us so long to get here” proclaimed a somewhat relieved yet energised Joey Landreth midway into this evenings rocking opener ‘Runaway Train’. Late 2019 the band were in early touring stages, promoting the then […]
Tracks

Ryan Hamilton “Big Man” – previously unrecorded Chuck prophet song

July 27, 2021 0
What’s not to like?  Ryan Hamilton has a solid rock and roll C.V. and Chuck Prophet writes great songs  – and this is a perfect example.  All the more surprising then that it hasn’t been recorded […]
Live Reviews

Stephen Fearing & The Sentimentals, Landmark Arts Centre, Teddington, 9th February 2020

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Having had what he described as “a biblical journey” as he battled through the worst of Storm Ciara, Canadian troubadour Stephen Fearing noted that the setting of this show, a church converted into a thriving arts […]

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