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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – Los Lobos

May 7, 2025 Paul Russell 0

Los Lobos burst onto the music scene in relatively modest ways in 1973 in East Los Angeles with vocalist and guitarist David Hidalgo and drummer Louie Perez having met at high school. Their success, though, took […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – The Byrds

April 23, 2025 Daisy Innes 18

If there’s something that I really can’t live without, it’s California country rock music. As I’m sure every contributor to Americana UK does, I listen to music endlessly, and most of that sits within the country […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – Alejandro Escovedo

April 2, 2025 Stephen Rostkoski 1

Alejandro Escovedo has been one of my favorite Austin-based musicians ever since I encountered his music in 1994. He remains the one performer I’ve seen live in concert more than any other (I lost count at […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – Lucinda Williams

March 26, 2025 Fiona Golden 6

AUK has rightfully sung the praises of alt-country singer-songwriter Lucinda Williams for years now, and last year, she was voted the number one Americana artist of all time by our readers. With a career spanning 46 […]

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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Paul Simon

February 19, 2025 Dean Nardi 1

“Remember one man’s ceiling is another man’s floor.” It may seem like Paul Simon has been around forever, and if you are of the Baby Boomer generation your perception may be right. Simon (age 83) and […]

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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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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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Not surprisingly, Uncle Lucius came out of Austin, Texas. They really couldn’t have come from anywhere else, given the sound of the band. Rooted in the old-time country, blues, and rock of Texas music, dripping with […]

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Suzanne Vega “Chambermaid” – and pickpocket?

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On this, the latest single from Suzanne Vega’s soon-to-be-released album ‘Flying With Angels‘ we find the coffee shop folk-rock rebel picking up crumbs and re-arranging the books on their shelves for the looming singer-songwriter genius of […]

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From her excellent album All American Made, this is the excellent new single from country star Margo Price.

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