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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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Kyshona announces new album “Legacy” – collecting stories of black America

March 7, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Nashville-based artist/music therapist/activist Kyshona releases her latest album, ‘Legacy’, on 26th April via Soundly Music.  Kyshona co-produced the record with producer/engineer/mixer Rachael Moore with whom she assembled a team of engineers, musicians, singers, and featured guests […]
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The Long Road Festival announces first acts for 2024

March 6, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Following 2023’s sell-out, The Long Road festival returns to the picturesque grounds of Stanford Hall in Leicestershire over the August bank holiday weekend this year from 23rd to 25th August.  The festival has a track record […]
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The Mavericks announce a new album “Moon & Stars” and European tour dates

March 6, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Americana icons The Mavericks have announced details of their highly-anticipated new album ‘Moon & Stars’.  The record is due for release on 17th May via the band’s Mono Mundo Recordings imprint in conjunction with Thirty Tigers.  […]
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Charley Crockett announces new album “$10 Cowboy” and London dates

March 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 2
Much feted singer-songwriter Charley Crockett has announced the release of a new album, ‘$10 Cowboy’, due out 26th April on Thirty Tigers. After a DIY-inspired career to date,’$10 Cowboy’ is the Rio Grande Valley native’s 13th studio record. […]
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Preview: May Erlewine UK tour dates kick off tonight

March 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
May Erlewine, the Michigan singer-songwriter has announced a headline tour next month with 3 support dates opening for multi-instrumentalist, singer, songwriter, and producer Theo Katzman, in the UK and Europe beginning tonight. Erlewine, who last played […]

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

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A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities. Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

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This song is on Sheryl Crow’s Wildflower album, released in 2005 to lukewarm critical response. It was a low-key collection of songs – no All I Wanna Do or Soak Up the Sun among them – […]

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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3
Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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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

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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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Classic Americana Albums: The Louvin Brothers “Satan Is Real” (Capitol Records, 1959)

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What is it about an album by a god-fearing, religiously obsessed duo born nearly a century ago that appeals so much to a militant atheist? The answer: it’s all about the harmonies – so good at […]
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Bob Dylan “1970”

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Intimate, but hardly essential, selection of Dylan outtakes. The latest release from the Bob Dylan archives is not even classified as an official “Bootleg” release, the series title for the most significant gathering together of previously […]
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Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real “Naked Garden” (Fantasy Records, 2020)

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Last June’s ‘Turn Off The News (Build A Garden)’ was Lukas Nelson & Promise of the Real’s eighth and most successful album – it was also their best to date. ‘Naked Garden’ is an album of […]

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