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Great Lake Swimmers share two new songs – Listen

February 22, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0
2018 marks the 15th anniversary of the indie-folk/rock band Great Lake Swimmers led by singer-songwriter Tony Dekker who decided for the band’s next record to challenge himself by writing new music without any acoustic guitar which has always been […]
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Lost Brothers “Come Tomorrow” – Listen

February 21, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
What do you get when you combine the duetting style of the Everly Brothers with the lyrical style of the spectral strain of Gothic-Americana ?  Well, something rather like the Lost Brothers, who’s fifth album Halfway […]
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Cruel, Cruel “Swim” – Listen

February 20, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
In all honesty we don’t know a lot about Cruel, cruel – they are from Bogota, they have an EP out called Submerso.  There’s a clip of them on Youtube which our Spanish is not up to.  […]
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Belle of the Fall “Rise Up” – Listen

February 19, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Belle of the Fall is Tracy Walton and Julia Autumn Ford, an indie folk rock pop alternative americana with a soul, duo from Connecticut. Tracy plays upright bass and sings and Julia plays nylon string guitar […]
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Track Premiere: Simon D James “Dearest Lovely World”

February 16, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0
Brighton based singer-songwriter Simon D James has a global vision, and his debut single Dearest Lovely World was written whilst he was volunteering in the Calais refugee camps.  This experience led him to recognise that “regardless of […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Steve Young “Rock, Salt & Nails”

April 21, 2026 0
Before embarking on this feature, to avoid duplication, I conducted a search on ‘Steve Young’, on the AUK website and was surprised to find there are precious few recent pieces devoted to someone who was surely […]
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Chip Taylor “Words From Holy Gardens”

April 21, 2026 0
Poignancy heaped upon poignancy on Taylor’s final recordings Words From Holy Gardens was already a very emotionally wrought record, featuring as it does Chip Taylor’s home recordings of his responses to aging and in particular to […]
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Jesse Malin “Hollywood Forever” – tribute to a friend

April 21, 2026 0
After all the hard times Jesse Malin has been through in recent years it’s more than good to hear new sounds from the man who embodies the spirit of punkish-rock and roll.  The new songs are […]

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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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Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

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How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]

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If it wasn’t for this album, Joe Henry would be a minor footnote in any history of Americana that I might write, perhaps more memorable for being Madonna’s brother-in-law. His early records were serviceable and he […]
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Chuck Prophet and Stephanie Finch tour UK in September.

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Everyone’s favourite guitar god returns to the UK this September with Stephanie Finch – keyboard maestro of the Mission Express, star of the album ‘Stephanie Finch and the Company Men‘ and…married to Chuck Prophet.  It’s described […]
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Rachel Sumner & Travelling Light “Strangers Again” – haven’t we met?

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Rachel Sumner you may recall from the “Twang Factor” last year, where she was the runner up.  Well, here we find her with new music with her new band Travelling Light, which features Ira Klein on […]

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