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Matt Bohannon “Home Alone” – I’ll stay right here

February 13, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s no real surprise to find that Chattanooga Tennessee’s the Bohannons are headed up by brothers Marty and Matt Bohannon (that’s Matt on the right and, yeah, you’ve guessed it, Marty on the left in the […]
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Marty Bohannon “Fall City” – all has changed

February 12, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
It’s no real surprise to find that Chattanooga Tennessee’s the Bohannons are headed up by brothers Marty and Matt Bohannon (that’s Marty on the left and, yeah, you’ve guessed it, Matt on the right in the […]
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Joel David Weir “Good Good Trouble” – waiting for justice

February 11, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Joel David Weir is an Indiana based singer/songwriter who pulls on the same inspiration as early Dylan and good folks like Woody Guthrie.  He write’s songs that comment on the times, and there’s certainly a lot […]
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Bandits On The Run “Let’s Go Below” – subterranean adventures

February 10, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
Let’s just take a moment and reflect on the busy lives of Brooklyn’s Bandits On The Run, who made their first big mark with ‘Love in the Underground’ back in 2019 when it was featured on […]
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Something for the weekend: Waxahatchee “Mud”

February 7, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for this week dear reader. It’s been a miserable week to be a website associated with the USA – this website of course like Woody Guthrie’s guitar kills fascists but killing […]

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Austin singer-songwriter Alex Amen announces debut album for June

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Alex Amen
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Austin singer-songwriter Alex Amen announces debut album for June

April 22, 2026 0
Alex Amen, the 26-year-old indie folk-country singer-songwriter from Texas, has announced his debut album, Sun of Amen, which will be out on 12th June 2026 via ATO Records. Newly signed to the label, Amen’s full-length debut […]
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Benjamin Tod “Vengeance and Grace”

April 22, 2026 0
An experienced and honest songwriter explores both sides of his stylistic background, performing the same songs twice. In a career of around 20 years, this appears to be Tod’s 21st album, either primarily with the Lost […]
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Steep Canyon Rangers “Roll Of The Dice” – let the bones roll where they will

April 22, 2026 0
Gearing up for the release of their fifteenth studio album; not counting the collaborations with renowned bluegrass banjoist Steve Martin, the Steep Canyon Rangers: Graham Sharp (banjo, vocals), Mike Guggino (mandolin/mandola, vocals), Aaron Burdett (guitar, vocals), […]

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  • Interview: Dale Watson on “Unwanted” and the zen of pure country
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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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Alan Fletcher “The Point”

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Aussie soap star finds a perfect band to help him deliver his vision of Americana On a couple of levels it seems absurd for AUK to be reviewing an album recorded by a 65-year-old Australian actor, […]
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