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Classic Americana Albums: Little Feat “Sailin’ Shoes”

March 2, 2022 Kimberly Bright 4
‘Sailin’ Shoes’ was Little Feat’s second album with the original lineup of Lowell George, Roy Estrada, Richie Hayward, and Bill Payne. The quartet’s music was among many wonderful freewheeling experiments to come out of Frank Zappa’s […]
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I Write The Songs… Harlan Howard

March 1, 2022 Rick Bayles 0
Harlan Howard pretty much wrote the book when it comes to country songwriting. Howard is the man behind the famous description of country music as being “three chords and the truth” and it’s a hard description […]
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The Other Side Of Me: Mark Nenadic on the “perfect synthesis” of The Cramps

March 1, 2022 Mark Nenadic 2
The Cramps invented americana. They did. OK – not the plaid shirt, bearded type of americana music that we here at AUK bring you week in, week out. But the perfect synthesis of trash TV, trash […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Jesse Daniel “California Highway”

February 28, 2022 Helen Jones 0
Our last Chain Gang entry was ‘Amarillo Highway’ by Terry Allen, so I decided to take the rather direct route (pun intended) of going from one highway to another, more specifically from a Texan one to […]
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Discovering… Nanci Griffith

February 28, 2022 Tim Martin 2
There are artists who you know you ought to like but it’s hard to find the connection to their music, or they just pass you by for some reason. For me Nanci Griffith fell into that […]

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Steep Canyon Rangers “Next Act”

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Time to secure your first-class ticket to a bluegrass celebration. Steep Canyon Rangers have been around a long time and continue to produce fine music, and their live performances are legendary. Next Act is their fifteenth […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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Tom Paxton will tour the UK in 2019

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Greenwich Village troubadour Tom Paxton is returning to the UK yet again in 2019, marking his 53rd year of visiting these shores.  Still producing new material – his last album was 2017’s ‘Boat in the Water‘, […]
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Video: The Orange Circus Band “I Miss You”

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Now here’s an excellent proper country ballad, all heartbreak and regret, from Kent’s Orange Circus Band.  It’s their new single and available to download from their website here and will also be on their forthcoming album […]
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Video: Jack Francis “Failure”

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Jack Francis is an outstanding songwriter and this new single, ‘Failure’, is well-crafted, timeless music in the vein of Courtney Marie Andrews.  Francis delivers direct, disarming lyrics with wit, compelling melody, upbeat rhythms and engaging sonic […]

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