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About Richard Parkinson
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.
Interviews

Tales from The Long Road – Around the table with Gangstagrass

September 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Brooklyn Hip-Hop vibes come to Lutterworth. Gangstagrass, the Brooklyn-based bluegrass/hip-hop band, opened the Interstate stage at the Long Road Festival on 23rd August 2024, before heading off to play the Shrewsbury Folk Festival the same evening. […]
News

The Innocence Mission to issue first album in four years

September 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
The Innocence Mission (lower case) has announced the release of their new album “Midwinter Swimmers” on 29th November 2024 via Bella Union. The first studio album from the innocence mission in four years, “Midwinter Swimmers” sounds familiar while being […]
News

Daryl Mosley announces release of fourth solo album

September 4, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
The award-winning bluegrass singer/songwriter Daryl Mosley will be releasing his new album “Long Days & Short Stories” on 4th October 2024. Produced by Mosley and The Grascals’ Danny Roberts, “Long Days & Short Stories” features 11 […]
Interviews

Tales from the Long Road: Down the road with Jess Williamson

September 4, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
AUK got some time to talk with singer-songwriter Jess Williamson as she travelled down from Leeds to London.  This sort of journey is nothing for Williamson who regularly drives between her twin bases of Los Angeles […]
News

Eric Bibb announces new studio album “In The Real World”

September 3, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Eric Bibb has announced the release of “In The Real World”, his latest album via Stony Plain Records which lands on 18th October 2024.  It follows the blues troubadour’s Grammy-nominated 2023 studio release, “Ridin’” and the […]

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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

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The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio “Welcome to the Family”

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More People Really Should Know About: Hayden

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artwork for Pete Ham tribute album "Just Look Inside the Cover"

Various Artists “Just Look Inside the Cover – Songs of Pete Ham”

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Willie J Healey to release new EP before October tour dates

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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
Album Reviews

The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio “Welcome to the Family”

July 28, 2026 0
The new release by The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio arrives with lively words of welcome. After three solo releases of his own, in 2019 Mike Jacoby teamed up with Don Read and Mike Levin to form […]
Features

More People Really Should Know About: Hayden

July 28, 2026 0
When we say more people should know about Hayden, I’m not talking about the beloved 18th-century composer and founder of Viennese Classicism, but about Paul Hayden Desser, the Canadian singer-songwriter who has been quietly ploughing his […]

  • Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories
  • The Mike Jacoby Electric Trio “Welcome to the Family”
  • More People Really Should Know About: Hayden
  • Various Artists “Just Look Inside the Cover – Songs of Pete Ham”
  • Willie J Healey to release new EP before October tour dates
  • Nicole Atkins “Singing In The Mirror” – hey, give yourself a break
  • Video: Lily Seabird “Election Day” – lost in the darkness, searching for the light
  • For The Sake Of The Song: Dean Owens “Sally’s Song (I Dreamed Of Michael Marra)”
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Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]
Interviews

Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]
Interviews

Interview: Have Gun, Will Travel is constantly evolving – What a concept!

July 22, 2026 0
Have Gun, Will Travel is the name of the band with the emphasis on travel. Not so much touring all over the world, but exploration, whether in their three concept albums or the songs written for […]

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David Climaco Garcia “Rolling On” – we keep going round and round…

October 22, 2021 0
If you detect a hint of listless desert rock on this new song from David Climaco Garcia it could be because the  Albuquerque-based songwriter draws from New Mexico’s Southwestern Americana, a blend of classic cowboy and […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed 150 – “Wow that was quick….”

July 19, 2024 0
And that’s it, a year gone by since I left full time teaching. Bloody hell where did that go? On side 2 of the LP of life if the tracks are passing that quickly there needs […]
Live Reviews

Steve Earle and the Dukes, The Mastersons, The Barbican, London, 29th July 2018

August 9, 2018 1
Steve Earle has, as two of the Dukes, lead guitarist Chris Masterson and multi-instrumentalist Eleanor Whitmore. Husband and wife, they record and perform as a duo as The Mastersons and they are the opening act on […]

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