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Interview: Blue Dogs’ Bobby Houck on combining being in a band with a professional career

June 27, 2022 Paul Gibson 0

South Carolina’s Blue Dogs release their first album in eighteen years. “Big Dreamers” is a fine set of life-affirming, crowd-pleasing country rock songs that presents Blue Dogs to a new audience that may well have missed […]

Interview: Hall of Fame Songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman on what makes a good song

June 21, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

Texas Born and Alabama bred but only because she was an Airforce brat. In the interminable debate about what is or isn’t americana one thing is beyond question, and that is that a defining characteristic of […]

Interview: 49 Winchester’s Isaac Gibson on the journey to their first major-label release

June 14, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

The challenges of forming a band with your friends in a town so small there is no local music scene. Americana fans will probably have picked up that there is a bit of a buzz around […]

Interview: Adam Killip leading figure of the London americana scene

June 8, 2022 Paul Gibson 0

Adam Killip on a long and varied musical life around the London Americana scene. In the early years of 21st century London a nascent scene was bubbling up, an americana enthused assortment of musicians and songwriters […]

Interview: Heidi Talbot on recording virtually in Lafayette, Louisiana, with Dirk Powell

June 6, 2022 Martin Johnson 0

Discussing getting songs from ghosts despite Boo Hewerdine’s doubts. Heidi Talbot may have spent over half her life as a working musician, including her apprenticeship with the Irish-American group Cherish the Ladies, and it is twenty […]

Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

July 17, 2026 0

Or England tour to be precise. Tickets on sale from next Wednesday 22nd July. You may have heard of this artist we’ve mentioned on the site once or twice who goes by the name of Bob […]

Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?

July 17, 2026 0

“In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act“, George Orwell. The country, truth be told, is going to hell in a handcart. Everything is bad. Everything. Nobody can afford anything. Nobody […]

The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Paul Sexton

July 17, 2026 0

This week’s podcast is as hot as the weather, featuring as it does an interview with seasoned music journo, author and broadcaster Paul Sexton from his home in Sutton after the recent publication of his latest […]

Interview: Blue Dogs’ Bobby Houck on combining being in a band with a professional career

Interview: Hall of Fame Songwriter Beth Nielsen Chapman on what makes a good song

Interview: 49 Winchester’s Isaac Gibson on the journey to their first major-label release

Interview: Adam Killip leading figure of the London americana scene

Interview: Heidi Talbot on recording virtually in Lafayette, Louisiana, with Dirk Powell

Bob Dylan announces 2026 UK tour

Hell in a Handcart: What about the Babel Fish?

The latest AUK Podcast now available featuring Paul Sexton

Convinced Friend “On Fire” – get the extinguishers

Video: Stephen Wilson Jr. “Gary”