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Bonnie Prince Billy and Bill Calahan announce new album – new song out now

November 8, 2021 Emily Dongray 0
Bill Calahan and Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy are releasing ‘The Blind Date Party’ on December 10th. The album is the culmination of half a year of collaborations online and will be released on 2xLP/2xCD/2xCS. The tracks feature […]
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Do you like free Grateful Dead music?

November 8, 2021 Jonathan Aird 2
Well, then, you’re in luck – it’s 30 Days of November time once again.  Which means that for every day of this oh so special month the Grateful Dead will offer you – yes you potential […]
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Our new AUK supporters playlist is out today – win a signed copy of the new Billy Bragg album

November 5, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0
Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today for AUK supporters, which includes new tracks by Jesse Malin, Charlie Parr, Lillis Lewis, the Felice Brothers and […]
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“Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train” available for pre-order

November 5, 2021 Emily Dongray 0
Last year Australian national treasure Paul Kelly brought out a single for the antipodean holiday ‘Gravy Day’. This year he has announced a new double album for release on November 19th entitled ‘Paul Kelly’s Christmas Train‘ […]
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Greensky Bluegrass release new single ahead of new album

November 4, 2021 Emily Dongray 0
Greensky Bluegrass from Kalamazoo, Michigan, has released a brand new single and announced their upcoming album. Thirty Tigers releases ‘Stress Dreams‘ on January 21st, and the first single ‘Monument‘ is available to stream now. This, their […]

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Robert Plant to receive Americana Music Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award

July 27, 2026 0
The Americana Music Association has announced that singer, songwriter and musical trailblazer Robert Plant will receive the Association’s Lifetime Achievement Award during the 25th Annual Americana Honours & Awards, taking place on 16th September 2026, at […]
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Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”

July 27, 2026 0
Posthumous studio album from literate Californian singer-songwriter turns dreams into songs, providing a fitting epitaph for one of life’s truly great maverick artists. The sub-zero temperatures that covered the bulk of the UK during the first […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”

July 27, 2026 0
Several years ago, while still teaching, my morning routine took me to the local swimming pool at six thirty every morning, where I would pull on some awful budgie smugglers and swim a kilometre at a […]

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  • Tucker Zimmerman “Dream Me A Dream”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 241 “Back in the swim”
  • Morton Valence “So Far Away” – all the distance inbetween
  • Video: James White & The Wild Fire “The Girl From Fort Worth” – peace on the other side
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  • Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward
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Interview: The Lives of Famous Men take the elevator upward

July 24, 2026 0
End Times Elevator Music is a special record to behold. From the Link Wray fuzz guitar rumbles on opener No Alarm to the title track closer, which arrives like Ben Schneider and Brendan Urie collaborated, there […]
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Interview: Have Gun, Will Travel is constantly evolving – What a concept!

July 22, 2026 0
Have Gun, Will Travel is the name of the band with the emphasis on travel. Not so much touring all over the world, but exploration, whether in their three concept albums or the songs written for […]
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Video Interview: Alex Amen on “Sun Of Amen” as he comes of age as a songwriter

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Alex Amen is making waves as one of the new breed of songwriters to keep a very close eye on. Born in Texas, he has lived in communes on the West Coast, formed and played in […]

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Interview: Langhorne Slim on tackling prescription medicine addiction and writer’s block

February 15, 2021 0
How writing a song a day can relieve writer’s block and deliver a career high record Nobody can argue that COVID has brought major change and challenges to the world but as with most things, nothing […]
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Video: Josh Okeefe “Bowling Green Massacre”

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The video for ‘Bowling Green Massacre’ was filmed at the Nashville barn that Josh Okeefe called home when he first moved to America.  He has certainly come a long way from his roots in Derby, UK.  […]
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Julia Logan “River Run” – flow to the sea

July 8, 2022 0
Julia Logan says that she’d been listening “a lot to Neil Young’s live album with Crosby, Stills & Nash called ‘4 Way Street’” whilst writing ‘River Run.‘  Well she’s talking our language there, which ensured this […]

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