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Charley Crockett “The Man from Waco”

September 15, 2022 FredArnold 0
Charley Crockett’s 12th outing sees him go from strength to strength with possibly his best album. Charley Crockett is nothing if not prolific – this is his 12th album since 2015 and every one contains gems […]
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Live Review: Gretchen Peters, Kings Place, London – 2nd September 2022

September 15, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
A glorious early September evening with the recently developed and gentrified streets between the back of the railway lines and down by the canal doing their best to entice the avid music fan away from Kings […]
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Starry Skies “Small Wonders”

September 15, 2022 Keith Hargreaves 0
Fourth album from Glasgow based folk/art chamber popsters. There’s lot to like about this latest offering from the well respected Starry Skies. Adept at mixing genres but rooted in singer songwriter sensibilities this album offers a […]
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Rich Jacques “Everything Must Change”

September 14, 2022 Rhys Kelly 0
Polite pop songs in soothing soundscapes. As regular readers will know, AUK has a mini-series called ‘But is it Americana?’ in which writers try to answer that question with regard to specific artists or albums (the […]
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Dan Petrich “Children of Ghosts”

September 14, 2022 Paul Russell 0
A haunting photo inspires a moving and accomplished album. The power of photography has always amazed and intrigued – the images created by one person and their camera can speak a thousand words. When music is […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

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Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Abigail Lapell to play extensive UK and European tour in November

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Toronto singer-songwriter Abigail Lapell, who is releasing her new album Shadow Child on 8th May 2026 via Outside Music, has announced a run of six UK headline shows as part of a wider UK and European […]
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Track Premiere: Candace Hastings “Horses I Left Behind”

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Candace Hastings is long steeped in songwriting. Her first came when she was in fifth grade; it had just one chord and was written on the three-quarter-size Kay guitar that her mother bought for her the […]

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Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country

April 21, 2026 0
Dale Watson figured it out. He figured out what’s wrong with our disconnected, polarised era. He figured out why we’re caught in a death spiral of social media outrage, intractable positions, and argument instead of dialogue. […]
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Interview: The Del Fuegos on the joys of reforming

April 17, 2026 0
Brothers Dan and Warren Zanes revel in the glory of performing live again after decades. The Del Fuegos are one of the pioneering US americana acts who burst onto the music scene in 1985 and were […]
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Interview: Thomas Ådland, of Thomas & The Angry Hearts, on Language, Love and Identity

April 13, 2026 0
Two days before I heard them fill Martin’s Bar in Lillestrøm, I watched Thomas & The Angry Hearts make music in a wooden house surrounded by trees. In that studio, sound was built patiently: a harmony […]

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Video Premiere: Paul Thompson “Lone Star”

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Check out the latest single from Norfolk singer-songwriter Paul Thompson.  At the heart of ‘Lone Star’ is the idea of a star as a strong, certain, steadying presence that can guide us when we are lost […]
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Ryan Adams releases b-sides collection

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Morning americanees or whatever the collective of an americana consumer is. NME reports: “Ryan Adams recently released new box set “Prisoner: End of the World” and it features 17 previously unreleased B-sides. Fans needn’t buy the boxset […]
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Cam Penner + Midnight Skyracer @Celtic Connections, Royal Concert Hall New Auditorium, Glasgow, 18th January 2020

January 23, 2020 0
AUK’s first jaunt at 2020’s Celtic Connections took us to the grand concert hall in the city centre to see a one off show by Canadian Cam Penner and his erstwhile sidekick Jon Wood. It’s a […]

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