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Dolly Parton gives $1Million to Coronavirus research

April 3, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
The Country music legend that is Dolly Parton has a long history of charitable generosity – her Imagination Library for example has been responsible for providing more than 130million books to children.  As a side shoot […]
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Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger dead at 52

April 2, 2020 Mark Whitfield 0
Fountains of Wayne haven’t been mentioned on AUK for many years mainly because of their longterm hiatus from recording after recording one of the greatest folk-pop records of all time ‘Sky Full of Holes’ so it’s […]
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Margo Price has bad news and good news

April 1, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
Margo Price has announced something bad and something good – whether it’s in equal measure is for you, our reader, to decide – but on the whole at the moment any good news in these strange […]
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Ralph McTell extends Streets of London

March 31, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0
These are not normal times, that much is for sure.  And in these days of self-isolation Ralph Mctell has asked his listeners to consider the plight of those who can’t self-isolate: how do you stay at […]
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Here’s another track from the next Jason Isbell album

March 30, 2020 Mark Whitfield 1
Ahead of the release of his anticipated (and we don’t use that word lightly) new album ‘Reunions’ which is due out 15th May on Thirty Tigers, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit have released another new […]

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