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AUK Back Pages No.18

September 3, 2025 Paul Kerr 2
We bounce into the middle months of 2010 with a spring in our steps. Partly due to the latest innovation on the monthly CDs (as mentioned previously) of having a short blurb for each of the […]
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Got talent? Welcome to The Twang Factor Season 4

September 1, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Resuming a very successful series, The Twang Factor is back to find the best new and emerging americana acts. Get amped up! With the competition hotter than ever, AUK is accepting entries for the 4th season […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Ian David Green

August 28, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
Two years ago, contemporary folk artist Ian David Green was one of three winners in season two of AUK’s Twang Factor contest. His second album – “Songs from the Wheel” – followed and now here he […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Charming Disaster

August 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
If it was possible to weigh the amount of emails that flood our inbox, you would be safe in assuming we get a ton of requests from artists and their agents – established acts and new […]
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Classic Clips: “The Weight” by an All Star Cast in tribute to Levon Helm – AMA Awards Show 2012

August 15, 2025 FredArnold 1
I know, I know, everybody knows this song and a million versions of it, but I had never seen this live version from the Americana Awards night in 2012, where everybody seems progressively to blow the […]

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Something for the weekend: Great Lakes “Why Did My Love Go Away?”

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Keyside “Keyside”

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Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967

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The Waterboys live at OVO Hydro, Glasgow - 29th August 2026

Live review: The Waterboys, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 29th August 2026

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Brothers Osborne will release fifth album “Watertown” in October

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Something for the weekend: Great Lakes “Why Did My Love Go Away?”

September 4, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week, and we leave you dear reader with a track from the new album by Great Lakes, Fear of the Fear, a band we have been big fans of […]
Album Reviews

Keyside “Keyside”

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A catchy, guitar-led debut where jangly hooks and catchy choruses carry stories of lives lived close to the edge. There is something immediately familiar about Keyside, the debut album from Liverpool four-piece Keyside. Jangly guitars and […]
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Classic Clips: The Monkees “What Am I Doing Hangin’ ‘Round?” – The Monkees TV Series Episode 40, “Monkees Marooned” 1967

September 4, 2026 1
Growing up, I loved to watch the television show The Monkees, though looking back, I figure I wasn’t watching the episodes as they first aired, but re-runs. There were only two series of the show, though […]

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  • Live review: The Waterboys, OVO Hydro, Glasgow – 29th August 2026
  • Brothers Osborne will release fifth album “Watertown” in October
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Interview: Adam Chaffins on what is great about flea markets, dive bars and trailer trash

August 28, 2026 1
As one of the most resourceful songwriters in americana, Adam Chaffins welcomes you to the latest from his wacky, witty world in Trailer Trash: Doublewide (Spirit Nashville Recordings, 2026), a collection of narratives about schemers, dive […]
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Video Interview: Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Johns of the First Time Flyers on the Long Road Festival

August 26, 2026 0
Why musicians love the Long Road Festival. In preparation for Americana UK’s David Jarman‘s preview of the Long Road Festival, he interviewed Richard Olson of the Hanging Stars and Tim Prottey-Jones of the First Time Flyers. […]
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Interview: Nora Kelly holds space for the quirky in outlaw country music

August 24, 2026 1
It’s always the ride and not necessarily the destination that makes a trip through a Nora Kelly Band album worthwhile. The songs can be zany, intriguing and melancholic all at once, cavorting to their own primal […]

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