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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – Little Feat

May 14, 2025 Lyndon Bolton 14
As I discovered, when seeking to identify a “best of” or the “essential,” the quest becomes increasingly elusive the longer I think about the possibilities. Therefore, I begin with a caveat that if sounding dangerously like […]
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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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Something for the weekend: Icarus Phoenix “Oh, The Joy of Life!”

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Well that’s it from us for this sweltering week, and we leave you dear reader with a brand new track from Drew Danburry’s Icarus Phoenix outfit which he describes as “an upbeat fiendishly danceable song about […]
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Live Review: Kiefer Sutherland + Colin Andrew, The Adrian Flux Waterfront, Norwich – 13th May 2026

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When Kiefer Sutherland strode onto the stage at Norwich’s Adrian Flux Waterfront, the response from the packed crowd was immediate and thunderous. There was no slow build into the evening: Sutherland and his outstanding band launched […]
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Jim Keller releases first ever European vinyl retrospective called “Vinylly!”

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You see what he did there? Multi-talented singer, songwriter, and musician Jim Keller is to release Vinylly!, a collection of 14 of his finest songs from the last 15 years, and his first-ever European vinyl release. […]

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Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

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To say Ben Vaughn has had an eclectic musical career would be a gross understatement. He grew up in the Philadelphia area, and his journey into music began when a kind uncle gave him a Duane […]
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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

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If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

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Live review: Jesse Malin + Aaron Lee Tasjan, Islington Assembly Hall – 1st May 2025

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In May 2023, Jesse Malin was hit by a rare spinal cord stroke condition that effectively left him paralysed from the waist down. Told by many a doctor it was very unlikely he would walk again, […]
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Track Premiere: Rick Hornyak “Wait For The Night”

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‘Wait for the Night’ is a classic rock song about living for the time when one is no longer at work, the joy of escape to do something that you actually want to do.  Austin based […]
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Nicki Bluhm “Rancho Deluxe”

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A timeless collection of songs rooted in the here and now. Nicki Bluhm knows a thing or two about life on the road having dedicated the better part of two decades as an itinerant musician. With […]

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