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For the Sake of the Song: Allison Moorer “A Soft Place to Fall”

April 7, 2025 Peter Thompson 0
In 1993, on graduation from University, Allison Moorer, born and raised in Alabama, moved to Nashville to be with her elder sister, Shelby Lynne (who, by that time, had become an established artist); Moorer sang backing […]
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Classic Clips: Jackie DeShannon “When You Walk In The Room” – Later with Jools Holland, 2012

April 4, 2025 Chas Lacey 2
Back in the time before AI, when songwriters sat at typewriters in New York’s Brill Building or Holland-Dozier-Holland churned out hits for Motown, a small-town country girl from Kentucky called Sharon Lee Myers was attempting to […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Kathleen Edwards Songs

April 3, 2025 Peter Churchill 3
Whilst not exactly an unknown, perhaps her relatively infrequent album releases are the reason Canadian Kathleen Edwards doesn’t garner more attention. Americana UK writers have done their level best to keep her profile high with recent […]
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It – Alejandro Escovedo

April 2, 2025 Stephen Rostkoski 1
Alejandro Escovedo has been one of my favorite Austin-based musicians ever since I encountered his music in 1994. He remains the one performer I’ve seen live in concert more than any other (I lost count at […]
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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Daryl Mosley

April 2, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
There’s nothing wrong with wishing the good old days were back to the present. Forget the future. Without having access to Marty McFly’s time-traveling DeLorean, by which you could pack the value in the trunk then […]

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Something for the weekend: Son Volt “If I Could”

July 17, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new song from alt-country heroes/pioneers/stalwarts/choose your own noun Son Volt whose latest album Sound Signal Serenades was physically released on […]
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Bella White “A Sign In The Weather”

July 17, 2026 0
A strong third album from the rootsy Canadian “Appalachian” artist from New Orleans showing raw emotion and a degree of post-breakup positivity. As you listen to each song on Bella White’s new studio album you feel […]
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Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates

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Jawdropped, a four-piece from Los Angeles, have announced their debut album, Secret To Spare, due 18th September via Transgressive Records / Canvasback. The band has also released the first single, Split Lip, along with a video […]

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  • Paperback Riders: Dennis McNally “A Long Strange Trip: The Inside History of the Grateful Dead”
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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

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Check out the latest single from The Sleeping Souls.  ‘Weathering the Storm’ is a song of resilience and facing up to challenges, in relation to both personal trials and, more broadly, adversity and conflict in the […]

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