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Too many outlets letting out – Jon Aird’s Year in Tracks

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Just keeping the year on Track has been a challenge in more ways than one – but one of the things about 2020 that can be slightly celebrated is that there has been so much new […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Chris Mills “Kiss It Goodbye” (Sugar Free/Loose, 2000)

December 9, 2020 Sean Hannam 1
Speaking to Ohio alternative weekly newspaper, The Cleveland Scene, in 2001, Chicago-based, alt-country singer-songwriter Chris Mills said of his second album, ‘Kiss It Goodbye’: “It’s about departures and things breaking down – relationships and things like […]
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10 songs about the other side of Nashville

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Nashville is the state capital and largest city in Tennessee. The city itself has a population of 690,000 but if you include the metropolitan area around the city, that rises to around two million people. For […]
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Forgotten Artists – Dory Previn

December 8, 2020 Rick Bayles 10
Today’s FORGOTTEN ARTISTS article brings you something a little different from AUK writer Gordon Sharpe. Here, Gordon takes a look at the career of one of the great lyricists of American music. Dorothy, ‘Dory’, Veronica Previn […]
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The Twang Factor: Cast your vote to decide the winner

December 7, 2020 Clint West 0
Over the last ten weeks we are proud to have brought to you ten new/and or emerging artists. The standard has been incredibly high, but there can be only one winner and that, cherished readers, is […]

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Gentle songs of quiet reflection for staying grounded in hurried times. Hot on the heels of last year’s critically acclaimed release, Divorce singer and guitarist Felix Mackenzie-Barrow returns with the eponymously titled debut album from his […]
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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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