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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without it – The Grateful Dead

February 5, 2025 Graeme Tait 25
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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“Some Place to Rest Easy” is the title of the second solo album released by Bob Sumner since he and his brother Brian came to an agreement that hoofing it down different musical pathways would be […]
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Anniversary Cheers: The Blasters re-release “Over There – Live at The Venue” and celebrate their 45th birthday

February 3, 2025 Paul Russell 1
45 years after their formation, The Blasters re-release the full concert at The Venue in London, with 11 additional tracks. Back in 1979 in America, a new band formed, gloriously ignoring the current musical trends of […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Patty Griffin “Truth No. 2”

February 3, 2025 Helen Jones 2
The first time I heard ‘Truth No. 2’ by the eminent Patty Griffin it was, in fact, being sung by The Chicks (who still had the Dixie in front of their name at the time). This […]
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Classic Clips: Stephen Bruton with The Resentments “Heart Of Hearts” 2006

January 31, 2025 Martin Johnson 2
We look back at a clip from The Laboratorium Stuttgart, 7th December 2006. Stephen Bruton was an exceptionally talented guitarist and songwriter who is better known today as a supporting musician who worked with the likes […]

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Irish-American singer/songwriter Alexandra King is the featured performer on this video for Americana UK’s mini-gig series. Music has been central to King’s life from the beginning. Raised in a musical family, she first stepped onstage at […]
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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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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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Martin Harley & Daniel Kimbro to tour the UK

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The combination of slide-guitar and bass that Martin Harley and Daniel Kimbro present is musicianship of the highest quality.  The much-praised duo will be returning to the UK as part of Celtic Connections, and will then […]
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Video Premiere: Deray Barboros “Crooked Corners of Your Heart”

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Here’s the latest single from Berlin-based Deray Barbaros.  ‘Crooked Corners of Your Heart’ is a song that reflects on the universal theme of heartbreak and sorrow, the experience of falling for someone who turns out not […]
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Jolie Holland returns to the UK for autumn dates

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Renowned singer-songwriter Jolie Holland has announced a series of UK dates in the autumn of 2025.  The shows mark a welcome return after her last tour here in the early Spring of 2024. Holland’s latest album, […]

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