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Alastair Ottesen “Pathless Land”

February 22, 2021 Tyler Davies 0

Skilfully written songs, stunning arrangements, all with a timeless feel. It can often feel as though timeless albums are a thing of the past, only to be produced in a rose-tinted bygone era, as if […]

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The Hellfire Club “A Different Song”

January 22, 2021 Tyler Davies 0

A hard-working band doing what they love most In a time when live music has been forced to take a break, album releases have become an essential way for a band to continue to hold […]

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Rupert Wates “Lamentations” (Bite Music, 2020)

December 3, 2020 Tyler Davies 0

Rupert Wates is a songsmith in every sense of the word, a prolific songwriter with 10 album releases to his name, as well as co-writing and composition credits with a long list of artists. He […]

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Gitta de Ridder “To Our Children” (Little Memories Records, 2020)

November 12, 2020 Tyler Davies 0

The human experience is something that undoubtedly plays a large role in any songwriter’s output. Songs that explore one’s own sense of self, belonging, culture, and identity have been labelled as some of the greatest. […]

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Malin Pettersen “Wildhorse” (Die With Your Boots On, 2020)

October 12, 2020 Tyler Davies 1

Norway has not traditionally been the birthplace of Americana musicians. Yet former Lucky Lips singer Malin Pettersen has been recognised as an established talent in the world of Nordicana and has most definitely made waves […]

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  • AUK’s Chain Gang: The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower”
  • Curtis McMurtry “Toothless Messiah”
  • Track Premiere: Kurt Deemer Band “Rain”
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  • Gillian Welch “All the Good Times” – Americana UK: […] ground for this pair,  that might prompt you to check out this AUK article from December 2020; https://americana-uk.com/book-review-santi-elijah-holley-murder-ballads-bloomsbury-academic-2020.  ‘All…
  • The Unsung Heroes of Americana – Takoma Records – Americana UK: […] in quite the same way – such as Lang and Kottke were always likely to be more melodic. In…

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Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings All The Good Times 2021

Gillian Welch “All the Good Times”

Album Reviews
March 1, 2021 0
Not the most sparkling selection of songs but well made by an established pair. This collection contains songs by Bob Dylan, John Prine, Elizabeth Cotten and Norman Blake, as well as new arrangements of traditional [...]
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Curtis McMurtry “Toothless Messiah”

Album Reviews
March 1, 2021 0
A mysterious, haunting and powerful album that deals with a pessimistic view on life The sinister and mysterious LP, ‘Toothless Messiah‘, from Austin resident Curtis McMurtry, is a brilliant take on dictatorship, oppression and greed, [...]
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Rick Shea “Love and Desperation”

February 26, 2021 0
Cali-country veteran ponders life to an accordion-driven soundtrack We Brits might call Rick Shea an Angeleno, his press might style him as a Covina singer-songwriter but when it comes down to it this, his 9th [...]
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Corner House “Caribou Party”

February 25, 2021 0
A fresh take on earthy old-time string music and Celtic folk from Boston quartet Corner House Corner House are a young string band quartet based in New England, with Ethan Setiawan on mandolin and mandola, [...]
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XIXA “Genesis”

February 24, 2021 0
A glorious trip through the dark underbelly of Tucson desert rock First off. Who on earth could resist a band who list as influences, ‘70s Spaghetti Westerns and ‘80s horror films, Edgar Allan Poe and [...]

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Interview: John John Brown on mixing music with photographs and comics

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The Unsung Heroes of Americana – Takoma Records

Features
March 1, 2021 0

We’re back with another article in our Unsung Heroes of Americana series and, this time out, Gordon Sharpe pitches in with an informative piece about an influential record label that punched well above its weight: […]

Gillian Welch and Dave Rawlings All The Good Times 2021

Gillian Welch “All the Good Times”

Album Reviews
March 1, 2021 0

Not the most sparkling selection of songs but well made by an established pair. This collection contains songs by Bob Dylan, John Prine, Elizabeth Cotten and Norman Blake, as well as new arrangements of traditional […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: The Carter Family “Wildwood Flower”

Columns
March 1, 2021 0

My esteemed colleague Alan Fitter set last weeks link in our long, long chain. With Suzzy Roche and Lucy Wainwright he gave us not just sibling harmonies but parental – mother & daughter harmonies. Well, […]

Artwork for Curtis McMurtry's 'Tootless Messiah'

Curtis McMurtry “Toothless Messiah”

Album Reviews
March 1, 2021 0

A mysterious, haunting and powerful album that deals with a pessimistic view on life The sinister and mysterious LP, ‘Toothless Messiah‘, from Austin resident Curtis McMurtry, is a brilliant take on dictatorship, oppression and greed, […]

Track Premiere: Kurt Deemer Band “Rain”

News
March 1, 2021 0

The new release by the Kurt Deemer Band is unlike most Covid albums you may have heard, predominantly becuase the “band” part has not been tuned down at all.  Not that we’ve anything against scratchy […]

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