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More People Should Know About: The Ugly Guys

February 11, 2025 Rick Bayles 2
Back in the heady days of Pub Rock, a band arrived on the scene that was a little different to most. They had a pedal steel player, and their lead singer seemed to base his look […]
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For The Sake Of The Song: Loomer “Caramel Heart”

February 10, 2025 Peter Churchill 4
Over the many years of his illustrious broadcasting career, Bob Harris has championed many an outsider. Although more recent years have seen Americana lovers having to sit through far too much mainstream country to reach the […]
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Classic Clips: Grace Potter “I Shall Be Released”, October 2012

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Performed at Love for Levon – A Benefit to Save the Barn, New Jersey. Grace Potter was probably best known, during the period in which she released her first four solo albums, as a soul-rock singer, […]
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Essentials: The Top Ten Songs About Kings by Elvis Costello

February 6, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
Once upon a time in a land far, far away there was an irascible, canny king. He was known for his illimitable desire for knowledge about all things artistic and his innate sense of musicality with […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without it – The Grateful Dead

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With the first few weeks of the new year comfortably under our belts, we now return for a second series of what was one of our most popular features of 2024, ‘Cant Live With It, Can’t […]

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Live Review: Clover County, Rough Trade East and London Highways Festival, 14th-16th May 2026

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Clover County is a much-travelled but now Athens, Georgia-based singer-songwriter, who, following good reviews for her debut full-length album, Finer Things, travelled to the East side of the Atlantic and has been touring with Jack van […]
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Andy Hedges “The Westerner”

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Texas Cowboy poet breathes new life into legendary American genre. Andy Hedges lives cowboy lore. Born in 1980 to an Italian teacher and a former rodeo clown turned preacher, he grew up in an old farmhouse […]
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Vox Continental: May 2026

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This month we have new music, new voices and a new layout. Keeping it Continental! We start this month’s column with a new album from Swedish country singer, Joulin Younis. It’s unusual to hear such a […]

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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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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

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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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As a music reviewer, one strives to approach each release dispassionately. However, on occasion it is nigh on impossible to separate an album from the story behind it. This is one such record. First, the personnel: Dave […]

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