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Sounds from beyond the Shed 152 “WTF”

August 9, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
I was in Nottingham two weeks ago to see Gary Louris, Birmingham last week for the cricket on both occasions I wandered through the city centres loving my ‘visits’ to the city from my rural home […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 151 “The Cricket”

August 2, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0
Went to the Test match last week in Birmingham. Had a brilliant time, however, my travelling companion had decided that it would be an ‘interesting’ experience if we joined the ranks of the Barmy Army in […]
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AUK’s Back Pages No.6

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It’s the middle months of 2006 we revisit here. The shiny new website is pretty much unchanged as is the format of the CDs sent out to those Friends of Americana UK who subscribe. News wise […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 151 “Louris”

July 26, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 1
Way back when in 2003 I saw the Jayhawks play Dingwalls in Camden. ‘Rainy Day Music’ had just come out and this was my first chance to see them. And what a gig, tiny venue, sweaty […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 150 – “Wow that was quick….”

July 19, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 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 […]

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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

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Experiencing a rebirth with Algebra for Broken Hearts, the St. Paul, Minnesota band’s twelfth album on Julian Records (2025), is crucial language, one voicing an undersung American existence. Like the novel, I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif […]
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Interview: Mean Mary answers six of one and half a dozen of the other

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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]
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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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