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[ July 27, 2026 ] Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award News
[ July 27, 2026 ] Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream” Album Reviews
[ July 27, 2026 ] Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim” News
[ July 27, 2026 ] Morton Valence “So Far Away” – all the distance inbetween Tracks
[ July 27, 2026 ] Video: James White & The Wild Fire “The Girl From Fort Worth” – peace on the other side Videos

AUK’s Chain Gang: Langhorne Slim “House of My Soul”

March 23, 2020 Linda Jameson 0

Last time the chain gang song was ‘The Rock of My Soul’ by Rodney Crowell. This week’s link is quite simply the word ‘soul’. This track: ‘House of My Soul‘ is taken from Langhorne Slim’s 2017 album […]

Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Frank Turner

March 20, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

In troubled times, we all need something to lift us. We all need a little light in the gloom. This is when music becomes even more important because it binds us together and connects people, even […]

Studio Life – Guise

March 20, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

‘The Fun Part’ is the brand new EP from Guise, the folk-pop group led by the delicate voice and songwriting talents of Jessica Guise. She is accompanied by Titas Halder on bass, co-vocalist Laura Hanna and […]

10 songs about other artists

March 19, 2020 Clint West 11

Here are ten songs written about other artists. The list below is not the final word, but represents the start of a conversation. The idea is to explore some of our favourite artists singing about other […]

AUK’s Chain Gang: Rodney Crowell “The Rock of My Soul”

March 17, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0

Last week’s Chain Gang song was from Houston-born singer-songwriter Tift Merritt. This week, we’re sticking with that Houston link and celebrating another singer born in that great Texan city. Rodney Crowell is one of the country […]

Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 0

The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]

Cover art for Tucker Zimmerman album "Dream Me A Dream"

Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

July 27, 2026 0

Posthumous studio album from literate Californian singer-songwriter turns dreams into songs, providing a fitting epitaph for one of life’s truly great maverick artists. The sub-zero temperatures that covered the bulk of the UK during the first […]

Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

July 27, 2026 0

Several years ago, while still teaching, my morning routine took me to the local swimming pool at six thirty every morning, where I would pull on some awful budgie smugglers and swim a kilometre at a […]