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Live Review: Saturday at Ramblin’ Roots Revue, Bucks Students’ Union, High Wycombe – 15th April 2023

April 28, 2023 Andrew Frolish 3

Saturday’s headliner at Ramblin’ Roots, Robert Vincent, told AUK: “It’s good to be back around everyone, seeing all these musicians together again.” Indeed, there’s still a particular and renewed sense of the communal joy to be […]

artwork for Josh Ritter album "Spectral Lines"

Josh Ritter “Spectral Lines”

April 28, 2023 Graeme Tait 0

A reflective and atmospheric 11th studio album that finds Ritter exploring a broader musical palette. Being fully aware of stating the obvious a lot has changed since Josh Ritter’s last album, 2019’s ‘Fever Break’ delivered its […]

artwork for Angela Petrilli album "The Voices"

Angela Petrilli & The Players “The Voices”

April 27, 2023 Viv Fish 0

Celebrating the joy and fragility of life. In 2019, on the brink of success with the duo Roses & Cigarettes, Angela Petrilli suffered an unthinkable personal and professional loss when her best friend, bandmate and songwriting […]

Cover art for the Daddy Long Legs album "Street Sermons"

Daddy Long Legs “Street Sermons”

April 27, 2023 Andrew Raw 0

Riotous harmonica-driven rhythm and blues. This is the fourth studio album from Daddy Long Legs who describe themselves as “New York City’s most diabolical Rhythm and Blues street gang” and say that the album “represents a […]

Tim Grimm “The Little In-Between”

April 26, 2023 Michael Macy 0

Hoosier becomes a Sooner and creates a magnificent album. ‘The Little In-Between’ is Tim Grimm’s ninth album and he’s been at it for a good 25 years. He could be forgiven for settling into a personal […]

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Ashley McBryde - Wild (vinyl)
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@paul-villers Those versions keep coming
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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1

Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

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Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]

Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”

May 15, 2026 0

Patrick Joseph O’Connor’s Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community reclaims an overlooked part in American musicology. While places like Chicago, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta often dominate the story of Blues, O’Connor suggests that […]