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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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Ani DiFranco “Unprecedented Sh!t”

August 2, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Editor’s note: We are not puritanical about swearing here at AUK, in fact we like a good cuss from time to time, but NSFW email filters might block tomorrow’s Mailchimp email if we don’t change the […]

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Robert’s Western World celebrates 25 years with street party and livestream

August 1, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Any music fan who has visited Nashville will have spent at least one evening at Robert’s Western World on Lower Broadway.  In 2024, the venue, known as Nashville’s Home of Traditional Country Music, is celebrating its […]

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Paul Kelly to release new album “Fever Longing Still”

August 1, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2

The Australian roots legend Paul Kelly has announced the release of his new album, “Fever Longing Still” on 1st November 2024.  It is his first of new original material since 2018’s “Nature”. The album’s title comes […]

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Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra announce 6th album and UK tour dates

July 31, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Rob Heron & The Tea Pad Orchestra have been performing without regard for genre boundaries for over a decade now. Nodding to rockabilly, blues, country, swing, soul and more into their musical gumbo, but sounding mostly […]

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10th anniversary reimagining for Sunny Sweeney’s “Provoked” and UK tour announced

July 30, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1

Sunny Sweeney, the country and americana singer-songwriter, who hails from Texas but is currently based in Nashville, is no stranger to music fans this side of the Atlantic.  Since the impact of her debut in 2006 […]

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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 […]

Interviews

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 […]

Interviews

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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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

Essentials

Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

Obituaries

The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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