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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: The Rough & Tumble

February 28, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
Mallory Graham and Scott Tyler are a musical duo recording under the name the Rough & Tumble. They declined to identify which one was rough and which one tumble, but I have my suspicions. Their latest […]
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Classic Clips: Ray Wylie Hubbard “Count My Blessings” at The Shed, Maryville, Tennessee, 2012

February 28, 2025 Dean Nardi 0
What Oklahoma troubadour Ray Wylie Hubbard calls a “little ditty” is country blues at its finest. On an unseasonably hot September evening in Tennessee, Ray Wylie Hubbard was not showing any signs of slowing down at […]
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Essentials: The Top 10 Tom Russell Songs

February 27, 2025 Graeme Tait 23
Tom Russell requires little if any introduction to the readers of these pages, or for that fact, anyone who is instinctively drawn to the art of the singer-songwriter within the Americana genre. With a recording career […]
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More People Really Should Know About: Bedouine

February 25, 2025 Fiona Golden 0
A soundscape of memory and the road ahead. Despite her feature on Hozier’s latest EP and interviews with Rolling Stone and Vice, most of the music world has not yet caught up to the genius that […]
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Meanwhile, in Montréal – connection and inspiration at the 2025 FAI Awards

February 25, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
The 2025 Folk Alliance International (FAI) conference wrapped up over the weekend, and it was another occasion which made us wish that the petty cash was a rather larger pot… one day, one day…  It’s an […]

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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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  • Bella White “A Sign In The Weather”
  • Jawdropped have a “Secret To Spare” and October dates
  • Classic Clips: Anna Tivel “Rodeo Queens” – She’s Speaking
  • 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

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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

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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

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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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The Speedkings are whomever Jim Brown is playing with, so this latest release doesn’t have much of a common line-up with 2016’s ‘After All, it’s Been Forever‘ and on any given night his live band is […]
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Following on from last week’s contribution from my colleague Kimberly Bright and her wonderful choice of Johnny Cash’s version of ‘We’ll Meet Again’, I have chosen to return to the Cash album from which the track appeared […]
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Check out the video premiere of ‘Diamond Joe’ from Boston-based Ira Klein.  It’s always a privilege to see great performers recording and this video allows us into the intimate studio environment to see Klein at work […]

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