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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Kacey Musgraves

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When she played the Royal Albert Hall in 2015, Kacey Musgraves grew emotional when she realised her entire town of Golden, Texas, could fit into the room. She was promoting her second album “Pageant Material”, which […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Kelley Mickwee

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To quote the title of the lead single from her most recent album, Kelley Mickwee is a “Force of Nature” on the Texas music scene. A resident of Austin, she’s been making music in various groups for […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Brooks Williams

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Writing and performing for over thirty years, Brooks Williams has carved out his own niche and earned a reputation as a superior guitarist to go along with prolific songcraft that has produced a staggering 34 albums […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Townes Van Zandt “Pancho and Lefty”

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You only have to look at the list of people who have covered this song to get an idea of just how important it is to the progress, legacy and development of country music. Originally written […]
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Classic Clips: Shonna Tucker (Drive-By Truckers) “Where’s Eddie” – Live Acoustic, 18th January 2011

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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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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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This gig heralded the Treetop Flyers’ self-titled new – and third – album due out the very next day on Loose Records and recorded just a mile or two north of the venue in Stoke Newington. […]
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