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Chris Murphy “Live In England”

July 1, 2025 Paul Russell 0
Really atmospheric live album from New York violinist extraordinaire. Chris Murphy is no musical slouch. Over a 25-year career, he has amassed an astonishing 500-plus works, including just under 20 solo albums and around 20 collaborative […]
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Jackson Emmer “Battle Hymn of the Early Riser”

June 30, 2025 Jonathan Smith 0
Rich, warm storytelling from a masterful craftsman. A new name to Americana UK, Jackson Emmer’s “Battle Hymn of the Early Riser” is nonetheless his fifth solo album. Having played on the Bluebird Cafe stage and secured […]
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Live Review: Sam Kelly & The Lost Boys + Honey and the Bear, Junction 2, Cambridge – 9th June 2025

June 30, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Sam Kelly’s take on folk music relies on a combination of reworked and mostly sped-up traditional songs and his own, often more introspective, self-writes. With the full Lost Boys band he frequently leans into a joyful […]
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The Last Revel “Gone For Good”

June 30, 2025 Jonny Brick 0
Solid bluegrass-tinged folk from a virtuosic quartet. Based in Minneapolis, this is the third album from The Last Revel since the trio, now a quartet, reconvened in 2021, their sixth in total. It is impossible not […]
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Mary Chapin Carpenter “Personal History”

June 27, 2025 Dean Nardi 1
She sings her one story in many ways. A new Mary Chapin Carpenter solo album, “Personal History,” has been released on the heels of “Looking for the Thread,” a collaborative album released in January 2025 with […]

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Anniversary Cheers: Don Williams “Epilogue – The Cellar Tapes”

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Recordings from more than 40 years ago are unearthed by country music icon’s son, cleaned up and remastered. Well, I do hope AUK readers will forgive this foray into mainstream country music, but we are honouring […]
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Jobi Riccio “Face the Feeling”

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Colorado singer-songwriter navigates the ‘difficult’ sophomore release with ease. This writer had the pleasure of reviewing Jobi Riccio’s debut album, Whiplash, in 2023 (here), and ended the piece in the hope and expectation that the talent […]
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Graham Parker celebrates 50th year of career with new live album “Quality Footwear”

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Graham Parker will release a new live album  Quality Footwear: Live At The Brook via Big Stir Records on 26th June 2026 Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of his recording career, Parker’s vinyl and streaming collection captures […]

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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 […]
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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 […]
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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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2019 was a mixed year for GospelbeacH. Their fourth album ‘Let It Burn’ was released to critical acclaim in October, just two months after the death of Neal Casal, whose exquisite guitar playing is one of […]
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Dweezil Zappa tours 50 Years Of Frank

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Frank Zappa certainly out did other fathers – nothing as simple as a Boy named Sue for Frank. Moon Unit, Dweezil, these are names of distinction. Well, they’re distinctive. So Dweezil got an interesting start – […]
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Chris Pierce “Tulsa Town” – addressing a shameful moment of American history

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Chris Pierce has some good news – he’s been picked to be Neil Young’s support act on his first post-Covid tour this July.  He’s quite pleased, saying : “It’s an incredibly sacred honor to be asked […]

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