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Classic Americana Albums: Robbie Fulks ‘”Country Love Songs” (Bloodshot, 1996)

April 3, 2020 Guy Lincoln 0

It’s late July 2019 and my latest Bloodshot records update drops through the electronic mailbox. My excitement is palpable. Finally, after 23 years, one of the finest records ever to pass through my CD laser beams […]

Songdog “A Happy Ending” (Junkyard Songs, 2020)

April 3, 2020 Tim Martin 0

Songdog, Lyndon Morgans and confederates Karl ‘Pod’ Woodward and Dave Paterson have released eight albums without rising above the radar. 2017’s ‘JoyStreet’ was well-reviewed with AUK’s own Jeremy Searle describing Morgans as a genius. Nothing on […]

Audrey & Hugh “Sisterman” (Independent, 2020)

April 3, 2020 Rick Bayles 0

The duo is an abiding force in Americana music and, more recently, male/female pairings have come very much to the fore – the Civil Wars (before their split), Shovels and Rope, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, […]

Kim Richey “A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer” (Yep Roc, 2020)

April 2, 2020 Russell Murphy 1

Kim Richey’s ‘A Long Way Back: The Songs of Glimmer’ is a 20th-anniversary edition of her 1999 album ‘Glimmer’. And here’s the dilemma: should this album be reviewed as a comparison to the original? Or should […]

Anna Lynch “Apples In The Fall” EP (SJ21 Music, 2020)

April 2, 2020 Mark Johnson 0

It’s been seven years since Anna Lynch released her debut album (little heard but first-rate) and returns with this poignant EP steeped in American rurality. A wanderer around her country, her roots in the apple growing […]

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