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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Diana Jones

April 6, 2023 Andrew Frolish 2

Here’s another exclusive mini-gig for our readers – a chance to watch an outstanding artist perform from the comfort of home. We’re delighted to share three songs from Diana Jones, one of the most distinctive voices […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Jolie Holland Songs

April 6, 2023 Richard Parkinson 1

Ten essential songs by Jolie Holland seemed like a good idea for a piece for AUK but seriously when the time came to choose only 10 songs from her 20 year career the practical impossibility of […]

Classic Americana Albums: JD Souther “John David Souther”

April 5, 2023 Tim Martin 2

Souther is probably better known as a songwriter rather than an artist in his own right. He co-wrote some of The Eagles best known songs including ‘Best of My Love’, ‘Heartache Tonight’, and ‘New Kid in […]

The First Time: Peter Churchill – Supertramp, Bournemouth Winter Gardens, November 7th, 1977

April 4, 2023 Peter Churchill 2

By the time I had moved to Bournemouth as a 5-year-old in 1965 the Winter Gardens had already hosted The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. The next few years of childhood saw me also fail to […]

Cajun Corner – 10 Cajun/Zydeco Songs That Weren’t Cajun/Zydeco Songs

April 3, 2023 Rick Bayles 7

When I get out and about on my missionary work, preaching the Cajun gospel to unbelievers, the two disparaging comments I hear most often are “The songs are so obscure” and “It’s all sung in French”. […]

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

August 5, 2026 0

The musical influence of Tom Waits over the last seven decades has spanned far beyond what one might define as americana. His deep, gravely voice, has been described as having been soaked in a vat of […]

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”

August 5, 2026 0

The Rutland Troubadour returns for album number four. Paul McClure, on his fourth album, decided to go to pastures new and left the rural north and travelled south to East Sussex and the fine Bex-Pop Studios […]

Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers

August 5, 2026 0

Includes tracks from My Morning Jacket, Lucinda Williams and MJ Lenderman among others. Cinema Music Group, Killphonic Records, and City Slang have announced Heart of Gold: The Songs of Neil Young, Vol. 2 – Out of […]