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Sounds from beyond the Shed 199 “Bandcamp Gold”

September 12, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Creating a couple of radio shows and having a voracious appetite for new music keep me coming back to Bandcamp. It is a wonderful thing. I never play tracks on my shows that I have not […]
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My View: The Number One Man from Tennessee

September 9, 2025 Dean Nardi 2
Many of our readers – especially those from the UK – will likely not recognize the name Scott Bloomquist. Many in America, however, will if besides music they also enjoy stock car racing. Australians may know […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 198 “The End…”

September 5, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
I have talked several times in these articles about my father and his descent into dementia. He now resides in a care home, which has, in turn, released my mother (87) from fifteen years of increasing […]
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AUK Back Pages No.18

September 3, 2025 Paul Kerr 2
We bounce into the middle months of 2010 with a spring in our steps. Partly due to the latest innovation on the monthly CDs (as mentioned previously) of having a short blurb for each of the […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 197 “Season’s End”

August 29, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Spent a few days visiting children and grandchildren over the Bank Holiday weekend and celebrating Mrs H’s birthday. And suddenly it seems that summer is over, not perhaps physically but in my head. I’m not bound […]

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

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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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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Peter Case

July 22, 2026 0
First things first, Peter Case has had a long and distinguished career and judging by the quality of his latest releases, he shows no signs of slowing down. By last count, as a solo artist, he’s […]
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Owen Lake and the Tragic Loves “Bury Deep My Heart”

July 22, 2026 0
Old-time country with dark and passionate words given a modern update with electronica. Owen Lake is the alter ego of Jeff Snyder, Director of Electronic Music at Princeton, and Bury Deep My Heart is his second […]

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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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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 0
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]
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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]

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Something for the weekend: Grandaddy “Watercooler”

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Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. We leave you with a band we have not featured enough around these parts in recent years, but to be fair they haven’t been around much […]
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Classic Americana Albums: The Lemonheads “It’s A Shame About Ray”

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Hard to believe that it’s been thirty years since this doozie was first unleashed. Evan Dando has been a long time lover of Gram Parsons, Big Star and others that we’d consider ‘classic’ americana artists. Accordingly, […]

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