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AUK Back Pages No. 13
We’re at the tail end of 2008 now which means that we have an extra disc to mention, a Christmas gift to our subscribers who received a “Best 0f 2008” CD along with their December fix. […]
Features
Obituaries
The Song Remains: Michael Hurley (1941- 2025)
The passing of Michael Hurley who died on April 1st aged 83 closes the chapter on a remarkable musician. AUK wrote of him a while back that he “ploughed his own unique furrow of pastoral, homespun […]
Features
More People Really Should Know About: Bob Martin
Typically the purpose of this feature is to draw attention to an emerging artist. However, candidates also deserving of greater recognition are artists from long ago or who are no longer with us. Bob Martin is […]
Features
For the Sake of the Song: Allison Moorer “A Soft Place to Fall”
In 1993, on graduation from University, Allison Moorer, born and raised in Alabama, moved to Nashville to be with her elder sister, Shelby Lynne (who, by that time, had become an established artist); Moorer sang backing […]
Classic Clips
Classic Clips: Jackie DeShannon “When You Walk In The Room” – Later with Jools Holland, 2012
Back in the time before AI, when songwriters sat at typewriters in New York’s Brill Building or Holland-Dozier-Holland churned out hits for Motown, a small-town country girl from Kentucky called Sharon Lee Myers was attempting to […]