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Essentials: The Top 10 John Paul White Songs

May 1, 2025 David Jarman 0
John Paul White came to many listeners’ attention as part of the highly regarded duo The Civil Wars with Joy Williams, but prior to and after the duo were active between 2009 and 2012, White has […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Nikki O’Neill

April 30, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
This next video in the mini-gig series recorded exclusively for AUK comes from Nikki O’Neill, a singer/songwriter and guitarist based in Chicago, the city she has called home since 2020. Born in Los Angeles, she grew […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Jonathan Peyton

April 30, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 2
Jonathan Peyton hails from Woodstock, Georgia. At the age of 16, he borrowed an Epiphone Les Paul guitar and tried to learn ‘Stairway to Heaven’, playing his first show aged 20. The church played a big […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Elvis Costello “(The Angels Wanna Wear My) Red Shoes”

April 28, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Elvis Costello provides a taste of his cynical capacity in (The Angels Wanna Wear My) ‘Red Shoes’, which is somewhat of an anti-fairy tale with more than a little foresight due to Hans Christian Andersen’s gruesome, […]
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Classic Clips: Venice, with America, Richard Page and David Crosby “Suite:Judy Blue Eyes” at Barnum Hall, Santa Monica High School 2011

April 25, 2025 FredArnold 2
If, dear reader, you trace your love of the Americana genre back to the 60s you would probably agree that there were a number of bands in the California music firmament that can be considered as […]

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Diana Darby “Otterson”

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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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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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There is something life affirming when Americana music is stripped back to the basics and this Canadian trio (Chris Coole – banjo, John Showman – fiddle and Max Heineman- double bass) head to the hills with […]
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Live Review: Jolie Holland + Annie Dressner, Neon 194, London – 18th September 2025

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A show from Jolie Holland is always a cause for celebration as the much-travelled multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter comes towards the end of the UK leg of her tour with dates in Ireland to follow. The venue […]
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