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[ May 26, 2026 ] Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much” Interviews
[ May 26, 2026 ] Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage” Album Reviews
[ May 26, 2026 ] For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are” Features
[ May 26, 2026 ] Anniversary Cheers: The Handsome Family “Singing Bones” Anniversary Cheers
[ May 26, 2026 ] Preview: Gate To Southwell Festival 2026 in July features The Proclaimers and Richard Thompson News

Live Review: Sara Petite, Stables 2, Milton Keynes – 10th July 2025

July 18, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Sara Petite missed the 2024 festival season this side of the Atlantic, but she made sure to be back in 2025. Having just played two out of three days at the Maverick Festival, she turned out, […]

Live Review: BEATrio, Cadogan Hall, London – 9th & 10th July 2025

July 17, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Two rare opportunities to see BEATrio where Béla Fleck has joined forces with harpist Edmar Castañeda and drummer Antonio Sánchez to produce a new sound in his banjo repertoire – and apologies to all the drum […]

Live Review: Warren Haynes, The Assembly Halls, Islington – 1st July 2025

July 16, 2025 FredArnold 0

When you think of serious guitar heroes, you might think, according to your taste in music, of Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, Mark Knopfler, Eddie Van Halen, Neil Young, or perhaps Carlos Santana. In the field of […]

Live Review: Kassi Valazza, St. Pancras Old Church, London – 26th June 2025

July 15, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0

Something of a change of venue from the supernatural references of The Slaughtered Lamb to the legendary St Pancras Old Church with its rock and roll connections going back over half a century to that famed […]

Yvonne Lyon & Boo Hewerdine live at the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey - 5th July 2025

Live Review: Yvonne Lyon and Boo Hewerdine + Sharon Maher, Kirton in Lindsey – 5th July 2025

July 14, 2025 Graeme Tait 0

Despite the wealth of sporting attractions currently on offer, it was reassuring to see another healthy gathering at Lincolnshire’s Premier Americana Music venue, the Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey, with quite a few new faces amongst […]

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RE: What are you listening to at the moment?
John Mellencamp - The Lonesome Jubilee
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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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Radio Paradise's Mellow Mix whilst on a bit of a drive
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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3

Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

Leeroy Stagger “Pilgrimage”

May 26, 2026 0

A memorable change in direction in this celebration of rural Celtic communities. Leeroy Stagger, born and raised in rural Vancouver Island before moving to southern Alberta, is a prolific artist. Pilgrimage is his thirteenth studio album, […]

For the Sake of the Song: Sheryl Crow “Chances Are”

May 26, 2026 0

This song is on Sheryl Crow’s Wildflower album, released in 2005 to lukewarm critical response. It was a low-key collection of songs – no All I Wanna Do or Soak Up the Sun among them – […]

Interviews

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3

Interviews

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

May 20, 2026 0

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 […]

Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2

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 […]

Tracks

Lucinda Williams “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” – Beatles go Americana

October 21, 2024 3

We love it when something just pops up somewhat unexpectedly – and this take on the all-time number 2 Beatles song on the office iPod by Lucinda Williams is both unexpected and epically good. It’s taken […]

Album Reviews

Gabriel Moreno “The Year of the Rat”

February 7, 2022 0

Thought provoking words about the struggles of life, over a sparse intimate soundtrack A quote from Cerys Matthews is front and centre of all Moreno’s publicity. “An offshoot of Leonard Cohen and Neil Diamond.” Fortunately, this […]

Dirty Dozens

Dirty Dozen: The O’s

October 16, 2016 0

The O’s started in the summer of 2008 in Dallas, Texas having known each other through from other groups (Polyphonic Spree, Young Heart Attack, Slick 57, Rose County Fair, Hi-Fi Drowning.) Three months later, they entered the recording studio […]