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Ben Kunder “Searching For The Stranger” (Independent, 2020)

June 1, 2020 Mark Nenadic 0
Alarm bells start ringing for this writer when faced with a promo picture of a singer-songwriter replete with a beard and sporting the obligatory woolly hat. Fearing the worst, tracks are cued up with trepidation. Phew! […]
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Paul J Bolger “Paul J Bolger” (Wolfe Island, 2020)

May 29, 2020 Tim Martin 0
Paul J Bolger says of his new self titled album: “After a lifetime spent shifting between music, visual art and film I am doing what I want to do at an age some might say I […]
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Emily Duff “Born On The Ground” (Independent, 2020)

May 29, 2020 Peter Churchill 0
Emily Duff’s ‘Born On The Ground’ is a breakup album, a collection of nine songs capturing nine different relationship break-ups from her past. In her own words it is a “luxurious, 20/20 hindsight look back, without […]
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Andrew Hibbard “Andrew Hibbard” (Sofaburn Records 2020)

May 29, 2020 Gordon Sharpe 0
This self-titled offering is Andrew Hibbard’s third album, following on from ‘Foot in the Door’ from 2012 and ‘Under the Knife’ from 2015.  The first was made when he was 17 so we can assume that he […]
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Hollowsage & the Three Mile Islanders “Nuclear Home” (Independent, 2020)

May 28, 2020 Scott Baxter 2
This was first sent in to AUK towers in March this year, but something happened and everything went mad and there’s little point in explaining what that thing was, as besides it causing misery to thousands, […]

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Something for the long weekend: Steve Earle “City of Immigrants”

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Well that’s it from us for this week. If you haven’t got your tickets yet for our 25 year anniversary event featuring Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and you know, others of our ilk, you can head […]
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Americana Stories – Coming soon, but there’s still time to submit your story

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We will be starting to publish our Americana Stories in June, but the submission deadline is not until the end of August. We have some great work to share with you through the summer, so if […]
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Mia Kelly “Big Time Rollercoaster Feeling”

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In “Big Time Roller Coaster Feeling” Mia Kelly leaps from her roots in folk and blues to a foray into pop territory. At only 23 years of age, Québec-based singer-songwriter Mia Kelly has released her third […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
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Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

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Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
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Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

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At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Jane Willow has said that ‘The Fool‘ started out as a tribute to Parton’s ‘Jolene‘, but quickly took a different path.  Dutch born and Dublin dwelling Willow found inspiration in her own life – wanting to […]
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Townsend’s Solitaire “Glad To Be Alive”

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Reflections of grief and loss enlivened with classical accompaniment. Townsend’s Solitaire is a Seattle chamber-folk sextuplet brought together by Bobby Odle. Odle is a bi-polar singer-songwriter and, on ‘Glad To Be Alive’, he set out to […]
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AUK Shortcuts February 2023: Novelty Island, Rust Dust, Nolen Sellwood, Steve Stoeckel, D’Arcs Family Jams and Del Shannon…

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Our latest Short Cuts, an occasional feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]

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