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AUK’s Back Pages No 4
We draw to a close to 2005 with the last four Friends Of Americana UK discs, covering September to December (Vol. 2 numbers 9-12). This was the first full year of these CDs and if you […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 144: “If you go down to the woods….”
It’s festival time again! Hurrah, hooray. I’m afraid I’m a sucker for a small gathering somewhere rural where folks can come together and listen to good music and talk nonsense for hours on end whilst fuelled […]
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Clint West’s Americana Plus: The pitfalls of having zero practical skills
In my early twenties I shared a house with two other guys of a similar age. Both had graduated from university with good degrees and were very intelligent and likeable people. However, the idea of getting […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 143 “Grrrrrrr”
Every week I put together the playlist for the radio show it is a deliberate mix of brand new stuff (to demonstrate how of the moment I am), obscure stuff (to demonstrate how gnomic and out […]
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Clint West’s Americana Plus: The 1970’s – Heaven or Hell?
There was a time not so long ago where, on a fairly regular basis, the Tories would issue dire warnings that Labour would “take Britain back to the 1970s”. You don’t hear that so much now […]