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Live Reviews

Live Review: VanWyck + Alex Lipinski + The Miller Sessions, Paper Vintage Dress, London – 19th December 2024

January 16, 2025 Brian Hancill 1
Two years and two albums after her last UK show, Dutch singer-songwriter VanWyck drove over to London via a car ferry and gave an intense and powerful performance at an oddly named venue called Paper Vintage […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Americana Fest, American Museum & Gardens. Bath – 2nd/3rd July 2022

July 15, 2022 Tim Martin 0
Holding a festival of Americana music in the grounds of Claverton Manor, home of the Museum of American history and Culture, on the edge of Bath was the inspired idea of Matt Owens, best known as […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Alex Lipinski “Long Way to Go”

March 15, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out the video premiere of Alex Lipinski’s new single ‘Long Way to Go’.  The song leaps straight into powerful percussion and a forceful strum before Lipinski’s melodic voice and echoing backing vocals take us into […]

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Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

Album Reviews
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Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

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August 6, 2026 0

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

Tracks
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Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”

Videos
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Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits

Can't Live with it, Can't Live without it
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Album Reviews

Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”

August 6, 2026 0
A respectful and traditional tribute to Phil Ochs. Volume 1 of this collaborative tribute by Phil Odgers of The Men They Couldn’t Hang and John Kettle of Merry Hell was birthed in the dark days of […]
News

Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album

August 6, 2026 0
For more than two decades, Freddy Trujillo has quietly built one of the most distinctive careers in American roots music. Whether anchoring the rhythm section as bassist for Richmond Fontaine and The Delines or as a […]
Tracks

Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?

August 6, 2026 0
Railcard’s new single from their debut album Two Steps At A Time, is a softly sunny power pop take on a common problem – the unreasonable person who lives next door.  Tell us about it.  Although […]

  • Phil Odgers & John Kettle “The War is Over – The Songs of Phil Ochs Vol 2”
  • Freddy Trujillo takes flight with his fifth solo album
  • Railcard “Unstable Neighbour” – let’s get on, ok?
  • Video: Karl Bray “Marianne”
  • Can’t Live With It, Can’t Live Without It: Tom Waits
  • Paul McClure “The Good And The Bad Of It”
  • Artists with Hearts of Gold contribute to two more albums of Neil Young covers
  • Greg Freeman announces new album and UK dates
  • All-star line-up for Bob Harris event announced for Royal Albert Hall in December
  • Live Review: Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes + Riley Catherall, The Town Hall, Kirton in Lindsey – 25th July 2026
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  • Graeme Tait: Lol. Sorry, Alan, I knew as soon as I'd chosen to cover Tom Waits for this feature you'd be a…
  • Alan Peatfield: OK, Graeme - just one observation ... the obvious one. "As a songwriter he is right up there; on the…
  • Graeme Tait: Hi Alan. Glad you approve. It was an excellent gig.

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Interviews

Video Interview: Aaron Lee Tasjan on “Get Over It, Underdog” and Todd Snider

August 4, 2026 0
Nashville East resident Aaron Lee Tasjan has long been a favourite of Americana UK, and with 12 albums to his name, including his latest Get Over It, Underdog, and approaching 40, he is no longer the […]
Interviews

Video Interview: American Aquarium’s BJ Barham finds “New Ways To Lose”

July 29, 2026 0
American Aquarium appear to be on a creative roll with their latest album, New Ways To Lose, getting great reviews even though it is their twentieth album in as many years. Added to this is the […]
Interviews

Interview: David Keenan on inspiration, optimism and telling stories

July 28, 2026 0
“Radiate a smile if we’re only here for a short while / no we don’t want to miss a day / cus there’s so much we must do,” sings David Keenan on Radiate a Smile, four […]

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Previews

Bread and Roses musical features songs of Joe Hill

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A new musical is coming to Oldham, not that we generally run stories on musicals here at AUK, but this one is worth a mention, featuring as it does the songs of Joe Hill, more on […]
Videos

Video: John Hartford “In Tall Buildings”

August 16, 2019 0
This week’s retro slot features the late great John Hartford, known generally for ‘Gentle On My Mind‘ but also the writer of many other fine songs including this classic sad and regretful piece.  Have a great […]
Album Reviews

I See Hawks In L.A. & The Good Intentions “Hawks With Good Intentions” (Western Seeds Record Company, 2019)

August 8, 2019 0
California’s I See Hawks In L.A. and Liverpool’s Good Intentions met and became friends at a house concert in California back in 2012. Since then, the bands have shared stages in the States and here in […]

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