Features
I Write the Songs – Matraca Berg
It’s one of the unwritten rules of the music business that you have to have looks as well as talent if you’re going to be a success as a performer. It’s a sad reflection of the […]
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Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Etta James and Dr. John “I’d Rather Go Blind” – BB King and Friends, 1987
What with the last studio album from Dr. John about to be released and just general musing on what a superb talent he was I set off on a quest through Youtube for a moving performance […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Willie Nile “Streets of New York”
New Yorker Willie Nile is often regarded as a musician’s musician, his admirers including Bruce Springsteen and Lucinda Williams, the latter quoted by AUK’s Gordon Sharpe in his 2020 interview with Nile as commenting “Willie Nile […]
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The Song Remains: Jerry Allison 1939 – 2022
The drummer and songwriter who helped provide the soundtrack to countless lives. It was announced on The Buddy Holly Facebook page that Cricket drummer and songwriter Jerry Allison had died on Monday 22nd August at the […]
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From the AUK Archives: Whitney Rose “South Texas Suite” (Six Shooter Records, 2017)
Welcome to ‘From the AUK Archives’ where each week we will be lighting the old oil lamp and gingerly decending the crumbling old staircase into the dark, dusty and cobwebbed basement of AUK Towers in order […]