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Dream Team Double Header – Emma Swift and The Dears

September 16, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Wow, how time flies – d’ya’know that it’s been two years since the last drop of Dream Team Double Header? How the heck did that happen? So long, in fact, that some readers, the newer ones […]
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More People Should Really Know About: oso oso

September 16, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Indie quartet oso oso (yes, lower case) released “Life Till Bones”, the band’s fifth album, on the heels of their last, “Sore Thumb”, recorded after the death of guitarist Tavish Maloney at age 24. Maloney was […]
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For The Sake Of The Song: Billy Bragg & Wilco “California Stars”

September 15, 2025 Andy Short 0
Woody Guthrie famously wrote on his guitar, “This machine kills fascists”. The world could certainly do with a return from the great man. The lyrics to Steve Earle’s ‘Christmas In Washington’ ask Guthrie to “Tear your […]
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Classic Clips: Lucinda Williams “Drunken Angel” – Austin City Limits, 1998

September 12, 2025 Chas Lacey 1
‘Drunken Angel’ is about a man who released only one single before his death in 1989 yet went on to achieve legendary status. Lucinda Williams wrote the song about Blaze Foley, a friend she’d made in […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Sarah McQuaid

September 12, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
From her beginnings as a music critic turned folk singer, Sarah McQuaid has evolved into a mature artist with important thoughts to ponder then sing about. It is quite easy to get lost in her music […]

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Songs of love and hate with a layer of ghostly eeriness. When the Eagles reunited to stage their Hell Freezes Over TV special, Don Henley famously said that “For the record, we never broke up, we […]
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Video: The Attention Seekers “It Doesn’t Happen Every Day”

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The Attention Seekers from Newcastle don’t have a band name which does them justice given we are very happy to seek their attention! And they have a new song out now about which songwriter Alan Fish […]
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Live Review: Great Lake Swimmers + Portland, 100 Club, London – 10th May 2026

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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

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If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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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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Singer-songwriter and upright bassist Melissa Carper has announced a short UK tour with four dates starting in Glasgow in mid-June. The delayed tour promotes her most recent album ‘Ramblin’ Soul‘ which came out last year. Reviewer Tim Martin […]
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All the footage used in the new video for Drive-By Truckers’ ‘The New OK’ was shot in Portland, Oregon in the summer of 2020.  Quite simply, it is shocking to see the scenes that took place […]
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Sometimes, and we may have mentioned this before, Americana UK gets accused of being too serious.  Let’s unpack that (as the kids, and their elders, like to say).  Fundamentally, there is nothing as such wrong with […]

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