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Readers’ Picks: Drive-By Truckers “Gravity’s Gone”

May 21, 2021 Clint West 0

Dave Bartley from Doncaster picks a diamond from the Truckers treasure trove. The Readers’ Picks feature gives you the chance to share your own personal nuggets. Please see below for details of how to submit your […]

One more thing… could we ask for your help please?

April 30, 2021 Mark Whitfield 2

Hope you’ll forgive the extra post today. For the last 13 months, here at AUK we’ve had very little income since in common with most of the industry, a large proportion of our advertising revenue has […]

Readers’ Picks: Tom Russell “October in the Railroad Earth”

April 30, 2021 Clint West 2

Andy Trott from Gloucestershire kicks off our new series in fine style. To begin our new ‘Readers’ Picks’ series Andy Trott has chosen the title track from Tom Russell’s 2019 album ‘October in the Railroad Earth’ […]

Something for the weekend: Jackson Browne “Fountain of Sorrow – Live”

February 26, 2021 Mark Whitfield 2

Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. Earlier this week our writer Rick Bayles discussed Jackson Browne’s ‘Late for the Sky’ in our Classic Americana Albums series which he described as “an album […]

Sounds from the Shed – Week 4

February 5, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 4

Once more into the shed dear friends Teaching drama from a shed at the bottom of a sodden garden during a global crisis can occasionally be a particularly challenging thing to do. Demonstrating to twenty Year […]

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

August 6, 2026 0

For more than two decades, Freddy Trujillo has quietly built one of the most distinctive careers in American roots music. Whether anchoring the rhythm section as bassist for Richmond Fontaine and The Delines or as a […]

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

August 6, 2026 0

Railcard’s new single from their debut album Two Steps At A Time, is a softly sunny power pop take on a common problem – the unreasonable person who lives next door. Tell us about it. Although […]

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

August 6, 2026 0

Here’s the sound of the summer; Marianne is upbeat folk from singer-songwriter Karl Bray. Featuring guitar from Paul Phillips, former member of Pooh Sticks, Marianne opens with a light strum before the song settles into its swaying […]

Readers’ Picks: Drive-By Truckers “Gravity’s Gone”

One more thing… could we ask for your help please?

Readers’ Picks: Tom Russell “October in the Railroad Earth”

Something for the weekend: Jackson Browne “Fountain of Sorrow – Live”

Sounds from the Shed – Week 4

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”