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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 82

January 24, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
One of my gateway drugs to Americana music has set sail for the Southern Oceans Oh no. Normal routine. Alarm goes off. A groan and a moan. Cold floor. Struggle for glasses and shuffle into bathroom […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 81

January 17, 2023 Keith Hargreaves 0
A New Year and an old problem Coming back to school after the Christmas holidays is always a grind. The bright lights of Christmas cheer have dimmed to a murky gloom foreshadowing cold days, cold nights […]
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AUK Shortcuts, December 2022: Mark Crockard, Cooper Stoulil, Jeb Lipson and others

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Welcome to Short Cuts, an occasional feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 80

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Chris Rea has started his car – mine on the other hand… It’s always the case that school runs towards Christmas with a rictus grin, a mince pie in one hand and bottle of Valium in […]
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Tim Martin: My Americana Year – 2022

December 8, 2022 Tim Martin 0
All through 2022 I’ve been banging on about what a great year it has been for new music. I looked back at the scores I’ve given and overall, they are higher than in 2021. Have I […]

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Interview: Hal Cannon on cowboy poetry, songs and folklore

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For Hal Cannon, life should be very simple – love the place you live, love the ones you know, if you’re needy, why not give, then see if you’re still low. Words to live by, extracted […]
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Interview: Adam Levy on the Honeydogs celebrated return

February 23, 2026 0
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

February 18, 2026 0
The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It is not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with […]

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We have covered Nashville’s Sean McConnell a fair bit here at UK so it’s good news that following the release of his fourteenth album, ‘A Horrible Beautiful Dream’ earlier this year (“filled with song upon song […]
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