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Album cover artwork for Pippa Blundell's "common thread"

Pippa Blundell “common thread”

June 5, 2025 Andrew Raw 0

Evocative words painting a vivid picture of a relationship, accompanied by lush and sensuous music. “common thread” is Glaswegian Pippa Blundell’s debut album, and comes after her 2023 EP “sisters”. She wrote all the songs and […]

Artwork for David Lowery album "Fathers, Sons and Brothers"

David Lowery “Fathers, Sons and Brothers”

June 4, 2025 Andy Short 0

The life of David Lowery, who took the skinheads bowling. In 1963, the sea froze in Herne Bay, Kent. It was so cold during the big freeze that the sea was solid. That is where we […]

Live Review: Bess Atwell + Sophie May + Pem, Koko, Camden – 22nd May 2025

June 4, 2025 John Lee 0

Second time lucky. Bess Atwell’s long-awaited show at Koko, postponed from February due to illness, proved well worth the wait. Judging by the warmth of the crowd, no one seemed to mind the delay. Atwell herself […]

Anderson East “Worthy”

June 4, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

A solid set of songs and performances in first for new label. “Worthy” is Anderson East’s fourth studio album and his first for new label Rounder. It appears just under four years since its predecessor, “Maybe […]

Coyote Motel “The River: A Songwriter’s Stories of the South”

June 4, 2025 Michael Macy 0

The new album from Ted Drozdowski and Coyote Motel is a tour de force, showcasing their cosmic roots. Psychedelic isn’t a word usually associated with americana, which mostly gets terms such as country, folk, bluegrass, blues, […]

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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 […]

News

Helen Rose returns with new album “Rugged Elegance”

May 17, 2024 0

Singer-songwriter Helen Rose has announced the release of her latest album ‘Rugged Elegance’ which will be issued via Clover Music Group on 12th July 2024. It comes six years after its predecessor ‘Trouble Holding Back’; Rose […]

Other stuff

Sounds from the Shed – Week 2

January 19, 2021 0

More remote musings from a locked-down teacher Week one went as well as it could what with broadband issues, an avalanche of emails and some lessons where the sound of incoming notifications created their own aural […]

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New Nathan Bell album due out June

April 26, 2017 1

The Americana artist who’s been described as “the Woody Guthrie we need in the age of globalization” (and God do we need some of him right now), Nathan Bell has announced the release of his upcoming […]