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London based self-diagnosed music junkie with tastes extending to all points of big tent americana and beyond. Fan of acts and songs rather than genres.
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Realising Waylon’s dreams – Shooter Jennings to put out the first of his father’s archive releases

August 6, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Triple GRAMMY® Award-winner Shooter Jennings has announced the release of “Songbird”, a completely new, previously unheard album by his legendary father, Waylon Jennings. The album will be released via Son of Jessi/Thirty Tigers on 3rd October […]
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Circles Around The Sun share “Interludes With The Dead Vol 2” to celebrate Grateful Dead 60th anniversary

August 5, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Circles Around The Sun (CATS) have announced the release of their latest album, “Interludes for the Dead: Volume 2”, on 7th November 2025. Volume 1 comprised the music composed for the set breaks at the iconic […]
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Grain Thief “House Of The Dog”

July 24, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
A musically fun, if sometimes lyrically dark, fifth full-length from Boston string band Grain Thief. One of the benefits of reviewing albums for AUK is getting to hear artists that would almost certainly have gone unnoticed […]
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Madi Diaz to release new album “Fatal Optimist” in October 2025

July 23, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Madi Diaz, the Los Angeles-based singer-songwriter, has announced the release of her latest album, “Fatal Optimist”, on 10th October 2025 via ANTI- Records. Díaz has been around for a lot longer than many people realise, having […]
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Preview: Sounds of Scotland at the Edinburgh Fringe 2025

July 22, 2025 Richard Parkinson 2
The Famous Spiegeltent and Scary Biscuits Promotions have announced the music programme for its St Andrew Square Gardens hub for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. Sounds Of Scotland showcases a wide range of music created in Scotland, […]

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Video Premiere: The Sensational Country Blues Wonders! (Gary Van Miert) “A Mad Tea Party”

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Disappear down the rabbit hole with the latest single from The Sensational Country Blues Wonders!, the musical project of New Jersey-based musician and performer Gary Van Miert. The video for The Mad Tea Party is a […]
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Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year anniversary event featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and you know, others of our ilk, you can head […]
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Americana Stories – Coming soon, but there’s still time to submit your story

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We will be starting to publish our Americana Stories in June, but the submission deadline is not until the end of August. We have some great work to share with you through the summer, so if […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Jealous Of The Birds “Joan Of Arc” – she had a heart

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Larysa Musick – well, what chance did she have but to become a singer-songwriter?  It’s ok, it’s a comment she acknowledges herself – although originally she seemed destined to be a poet and an illustrator-author.  Yet […]
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Book Review. John W. Barry “Levon Helm: Rock, Roll, Ramble. The Inside Story of the Man, the Music and the Midnight Ramble”

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There are many, especially among Americana aficionados, who would consider John W. Barry a very lucky man indeed. To have spent so much time with the late, great Levon Helm, at the tail end of his […]
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Malcolm Holcombe “Come Hell or High Water” (Gypsy Eyes Music, 2018)

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Malcolm Holcombe’s latest release ‘Come Hell or High Water’ seems to reflect a man reaching an age where he looks around the place where he lives, casting back over the years and unconsciously puts into song […]

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