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For The Sake Of The Song: Gordon Lightfoot “Early Morning Rain”

March 24, 2025 Andy Short 8
If the measure of a song is how often it is covered, then ‘Early Morning Rain’ by Gordon Lightfoot would be high in the chart. Factor in the calibre of the musicians who have embraced the […]
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Classic Clips: Sturgill Simpson “Could You Love Me One More Time” (Live on KEXP @Pickathon), 2013

March 21, 2025 Andy Davidson 0
Anyone who had the good fortune to catch this fella during his recent European tour will hopefully have been as impressed as I was with his performance at the Barrowland Ballroom. The last time Sturgill Simpson […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Kirsten Haze

March 21, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Kirsten Haze has been one half of The Haze and Dacey Collective with John Dacey and supporting musicians. She also plays solo gigs, which is what you are seeing in this instalment of AUK’s Mini-Gig series. […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Paul Simon Americana Songs

March 20, 2025 Jonathan Smith 5
Is Paul Simon americana? For all his early involvement with the folk scene (including the British one), and his movement into various different world music threads, Paul Simon can ultimately be seen as a writer whose […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins “Rise Up With Fists!!”

March 17, 2025 Darren Lumbroso 1
Jenny Lewis first came to fame as a child actress, starting at the tender age of three when she appeared in a television commercial for Jell-O, a gelatine dessert. She starred in a number of films […]

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David Jarman’s recent visit to Woodstock in his AUK ‘For The Sake Of The Song’ feature may well have whetted the appetite of Joni Mitchell fans (here), of which I have been one for over half […]
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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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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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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

May 27, 2026 0
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”

May 26, 2026 3
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

May 20, 2026 0
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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Live Review: Sarah Borges and Eric “Roscoe” Ambel + Carol Hodge, The Fallen Angels Club @The Glad Cafe, Glasgow – 24th November 2022

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News of a long overdue return to the UK by Boston’s Sarah Borges was cause for celebration in itself, but to find that she’d be accompanied by her latest producer, the legend that is Eric “Roscoe” […]
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Henry Grace “Alive In America”

January 13, 2022 0
A collection of autobiographical thoughts, feelings and experiences making this an infinitely listenable album that resonates deeply with Grace’s ordinary, humble, delivery being utterly compelling. ‘Alive in America‘ is British singer-songwriter Henry Grace’s debut album. And, […]
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Video: Sunday Morning “If I Go”

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This is from Italian band Sunday Morning, taken from their album ‘Four’ out on April 5th.  A new name for AUK Towers, though they’ve been around since the late 90s (with a bit of a hiatus), […]

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