Features
Studio Life: Elaine Palmer
Why “Just One” should inspire listeners to go their own way Elaine Palmer is known for her powerful, bluesy vocal performances. When she lets loose, as she does on recent single ‘Just One’, her voice is […]
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A Night to Remember
A Night To Remember: Bluegrass heaven in a North East pub in 1983 with Peter Rowan
A night of North East best bitter and bluegrass with Bill Monroe and Jerry Garcia alumnus Peter Rowan. It may seem strange that a gig in the backroom of a North East pub in the early […]
AUK's Chain Gang
AUK’s Chain Gang: Joe Brown “I’ll See You In My Dreams”
Last week’s chain featured the considerably talented if unlikely pairing of Eddie Vedder and Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan. Vedder is an artist who clearly likes to occasionally stretch his wings away from his rock base with […]
Essentials
Essentials: The top 10 Jon Langford related albums
Jon Langford has lived in Chicago for the last thirty or so years, but is originally from Newport in South Wales. When I interviewed Jon over the phone – that’s a bit like Zoom but without […]
Classic Americana Albums
Classic Americana Albums: Aimee Mann “Magnolia (Music from the Motion Picture)”
In my humble opinion, ‘Magnolia’ has just about one of the best opening sequences of a film ever; the story in those first five minutes is instantly engaging, but it’s when you hear the opening bars […]