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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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Lynne Hanson to tour UK in early Spring

January 9, 2025 Richard Parkinson 1

The award-winning Canadian Americana singer-songwriter Lynne Hanson has announced a UK tour for Spring 2025 in support of her latest release “Just A Poet.” The twice Canadian Folk Music Award winner will begin at Shoreham’s Ropetackle […]

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Will Stratton to release eighth album “Points Of Origin” in 2025

December 19, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

US singer-songwriter Will Stratton will be releasing  his new album “Points Of Origin” on 7th March 2025 via Bella Union. The album, Stratton’s eighth, is the follow-up to “The Changing Wilderness” which was released in Spring […]

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Juanita Stein to bring “The Weightless Hour” to UK in 2025

December 18, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Juanita Stein’s newly (29th November 2024) released fourth solo album “The Weightless Hour” was issued via Agricultural Audio. Having recently toured with Evan Dando and Travis as the support act, the Howling Bells frontwoman has just […]

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After April sell-outs, Father John Misty returns to the UK and Ireland for new 2025 summer dates

December 17, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Earlier in December 2024, AUK’s Guy Lincoln reviewed Father John Misty’s latest album “Mahashmashana”, awarding it a high 9/10. He wrote: “After all this then, what are we left with? Fundamentally “Mahashmashana” is a magnificent, overblown, […]

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Fairport Convention’s Cropredy Festival 2025 line up revealed

December 16, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Folk rockers Fairport Convention have announced the line up for their Cropredy Convention in August, marking 45 years bringing some of the biggest names in music to a quiet corner of Oxfordshire. Taking place across the […]

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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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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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Here for some winter warmth away from their native sub zero Manitoba, Gordie Tentrees and Jaxon Haldane kicked off what local promoters, Sounds In The Suburbs are calling their Canadian season, with an effervescent show which […]

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