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Rolling Stones - Some Girls
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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Davidson

Features

March 19, 2026 Comments Off

Live Review: Charm Of Finches, Stables 2, Wavendon – 28th February 2026

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March 19, 2026 Comments Off

Book Review: Peter Wolf “Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses”

Book Reviews

March 19, 2026 Comments Off

Artwork for The Infamous Stringdusters album "20/20"

The Infamous Stringdusters “20/20”

Album Reviews

March 19, 2026 Comments Off

Shakey Graves shows his “Fondness, Etc.” for the UK with some summer dates and an album

News

March 19, 2026 Comments Off

The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Davidson

March 19, 2026 Comments Off

This is the final AUK writers’ choice of Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time. Watch out for the countdown to the song voted Number 1, coming shortly. I finalised this feature knowing Moses had left […]

Live Review: Charm Of Finches, Stables 2, Wavendon – 28th February 2026

March 19, 2026 Comments Off

The regular agenda in the side-room music space Stables 2 is that the named act will appear alone, and do two sets of around 45 minutes each. The arrangement of the room is a measure of […]

Book Review: Peter Wolf “Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses”

March 19, 2026 Comments Off

It’s hard to imagine a rock ‘n’ roller’s memoir that is as easy to read as Peter Wolf’s Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses. Readers will find raspy, rambling, raucous vignettes of […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 Comments Off

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 Comments Off

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Features

Songs for the apocalypse: Kasey Chambers “On a Bad Day”

June 11, 2020 0

Last week’s choice in this column was an Aussie and in no way attempting to replicate our americana chain, this week’s is coincidentally too (I say coincidentally like this is something happening to me). Kasey Chambers’ […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 197 “Season’s End”

August 29, 2025 Comments Off

Spent a few days visiting children and grandchildren over the Bank Holiday weekend and celebrating Mrs H’s birthday. And suddenly it seems that summer is over, not perhaps physically but in my head. I’m not bound […]

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Hurray For the Riff Raff stream new album in its entirety

March 3, 2017 0

NPR have been very nice of late, possibly getting in their freebies before Trump privatises/abolishes it (alarmingly on the cards without hyperbole), and they’ve decided to stream the new album “The Navigator” from the lovely Hurray […]