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Ian Felice “In The Kingdom of Dreams” (Loose, 2017)

August 29, 2017 David Cowling 0
Between two things there is often a dilution of each, a middle of the road but there is also the possibility of great fertility. I mention this as when listening to this record my first impression […]
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Jesse Dayton “The Revealer” (Blue Elan Records, 2016)

August 29, 2017 David Stevenson 0
Jesse Dayton has had quite the career, playing alongside true legends like Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson and Glen Campbell, time spent making soundtracks for horror movies and even venturing into punk for a spell in the […]
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Amanda Anne Platt & The Honeycutters, The American Museum in Britain, Bath, 20th August 2017

August 28, 2017 Peter Churchill 0
High up on Claverton Hill on the outskirts of Bath is the bucolic setting of The American Museum in Britain. Established in 1961 with the aim of educating the UK, and the world, about American cultural […]
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Thea Gilmore “The Counterweight” (Cooking Vinyl, 2017)

August 25, 2017 Phil Grant 0
Thea Gilmore has been a song-writing heavyweight on the British circuit for a long time and has shown a knack for consistent quality and a down-to-earth music that fiddles with genre and tweaks the nose of expectation. Can […]
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The 4 Of Us “Sugar Island” (FutureCD, 2017)

August 25, 2017 Mark Walton 0
The album cover does a tidy job of setting the scene for its themes: smiling mum in a floppy hat, car door open, four, maybe five kids squashed in the back, off on holiday in those […]

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Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly 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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Amy Melissen & Lee Stivers “Something Tells Me Everything Will Be Alright”

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Homage as an access point into the musical canon. It’s almost essential for artists at the start of their musical journeys to rely heavily on the compositions of admired musicians. Whatever elements resonate more deeply are […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Chip Taylor and Carrie Rodriguez “Him Who Saved Me”

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A few weeks ago, James Wesley Voight, otherwise known as Chip Taylor, died. He is best known for writing classics such as Wild Thing and Angel of the Morning; however, the songs he wrote for and […]

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]
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Interview: Charlie Musselwhite knows the highway and it knows him

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At age 82, Charlie Musselwhite continues to put out relevant and meaningful albums. Sweet. While his body of work may not conjure memories for some of our younger readers, it’s great to see him continuing his […]

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Video Premiere: Steve Dawson “Dimes”

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Check out the video premiere for the new single from Nashville-based Canadian Steve Dawson.   The seven-time Juno Award winning singer-songwriter is many things: he is a record producer, label owner, guitarist and side-man and a solo […]
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Something for the weekend: Bruce Springsteen “This Land is Your Land (Woody Guthrie Cover)”

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That’s it for us this week, dear reader. We leave you with a song that Bruce Springsteen describes as, “…the greatest song ever written about America.”  In the week that saw the 46th President of the […]
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Track Premiere: SunYears “Last Night On The Mountain”

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