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Essentials: The Top 10 Allison Russell Songs

June 20, 2024 Richard Parkinson 6
It can be a bit strange when an artist you’ve been listening to and seeing for over 15 years is nominated for an Emerging Artist award as Allison Russell was for the 2021 American Honours & […]
Features

More People Really Should Know About: Joe Hicks

June 18, 2024 Chas Lacey 0
Delving through ticket stubs can be a useful way to remember some of those acts you’ve come across down the years, deserving of much wider recognition than a place in a shoe box. No search through […]
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AUK Shortcuts : Rachel Sumner, Chris Castle, Mark Mandeville & Raianne Richards, Palomino Kings, Memorial and The Texas Trio

June 18, 2024 Paul Kerr 0
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly 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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Features

For the Sake of the Song: Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Kris Kristofferson “Highwayman”

June 17, 2024 Peter Thompson 8
In the mid-1980s, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson and Johnny Cash formed a supergroup, eventually known as The Highwaymen, recording and performing intermittently over a period of 10 years, during which time they released three […]
Classic Clips

Classic Clips: John Carter Cash “Hurt” – Music City Roots Live From The Factory, 2017

June 14, 2024 Andrew Frolish 0
When Trent Reznor wrote ‘Hurt’ and released it on the Nine Inch Nails album ‘Downward Spiral’ in 1994, he could not have imagined how the song would grow and change, becoming something entirely new in the […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Tracks by the least likely suspects

July 23, 2026 2
Before you shout at me remember this is supposed to be fun…. I have opened up and bared my soul on a couple of occasions about my past as a teenage rocker in the 1970s, with […]
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Album Reviews

Ed Askew “The Final Painting”

July 23, 2026 0
Profound, moving and beautiful reveries on posthumous release from ‘Outsider Folk’ poet. Ed Askew was a New York artist, poet, songwriter and genuine underground legend. Having first broken through with his self-titled album in 1968 (subsequently […]
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Conway Savage “Too Dark To See”

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Posthumous tribute to impressive solo career of former Bad Seeds member. For Nick Cave’s many devoted followers, this anthology of the solo work of Conway Savage is likely to be a must-have addition to their collection. […]

  • Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Tracks by the least likely suspects
  • Ed Askew “The Final Painting”
  • Conway Savage “Too Dark To See”
  • Star studded Felice Brothers tribute album to arrive in October
  • Buddy Miller returns with star-spangled first album in 15 years
  • Evan Honer “If You Wanna Know” – I’d wait for you
  • Video: Mason Jennings “If” – the power of hope and love in the human heart
  • Interview: Have Gun, Will Travel is constantly evolving – What a concept!
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Interview: Have Gun, Will Travel is constantly evolving – What a concept!

July 22, 2026 0
Have Gun, Will Travel is the name of the band with the emphasis on travel. Not so much touring all over the world, but exploration, whether in their three concept albums or the songs written for […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

July 21, 2026 4
Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]
Interviews

Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]

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Interview: Nils Lofgren

October 22, 2019 1
Nils Lofgren, one of the world’s great guitarists, is a musician’s musician. He has shared a stage or a recording studio with the likes of Neil Young, Crazy Horse, Lou Gramm and Ringo Starr and for […]
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Emily Scott Robinson “Old Gods” – oh, they’re tricksters!

September 10, 2021 1
No, we’re not entering Lovecraft Country with this new single from Emily Scott Robinson, it is not those Old Gods, this is not Southern Gothic with the Gothic writ large and there’s not the slightest hint […]
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Video Premiere: Güero “Scribe”

October 18, 2022 0
Four-piece band Güero have released the first single from their forthcoming album.  ‘Scribe’ sweeps along on currents of pulsing drums from Mike Ruiz and Russell Volksen’s grooving bass.  Over these forceful rhythms, Shea Ritche’s keys are […]

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