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Something for the weekend: Artists for Action “Which Side Are You On?”

March 7, 2025 Mark Whitfield 1
Well that’s it from us for this week dear reader. In September of 2022 an international folk supergroup consisting of 16 artists (including Bruce Cockburn, Ani DiFranco and Martin Simpson) from six countries on four continents […]
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Ani DiFranco brings her “Unprecedented Sh!t” to the UK/EU in 2025

December 5, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
(As ever we are not prurient about four letter words in these parts but the Mailchimp NSFW filter zaps them). Singer/songwriter/feminist/author Ani DiFranco has announced that she will be extending her “Unprecedented Sh!t: The Tour” to […]
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Ani DiFranco “Unprecedented Sh!t”

August 2, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Editor’s note: We are not puritanical about swearing here at AUK, in fact we like a good cuss from time to time, but NSFW email filters might block tomorrow’s Mailchimp email if we don’t change the […]
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Ani DiFranco “New Bible” – Time to adopt different way

April 9, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
Ani DiFranco’s latest album ‘Unprecedented Sh!t’ is being heralded by a pair of singles ‘The Thing At Hand‘ and the song we’re featuring today ‘New Bible.’   It’s a song which depicts a way of living that stands […]
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Classic Americana Albums: Ani DiFranco “Not A Pretty Girl”

June 2, 2021 Kimberly Bright 0
‘Not A Pretty Girl’ captures an intriguing portrait of songwriter, musician, poet, and political activist Ani DiFranco as a young woman. It was her sixth studio album on Righteous Babe Records, the label she started at […]

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Dude Cervantes and The Panchos follow up last year’s live record with their second album: a carefully considered studio effort that blends that live energy with focused instrumental and engineering maturity. Billion Dollar Art comes out […]
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Big names combine as Rainbow Body to create environmentally focussed album

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Rainbow Body is a new musical collaboration featuring Taylor Goldsmith and Griff Goldsmith (Dawes), Rick Mitarotonda (Goose), Eric Krasno (Lettuce, Soulive), Ross James (Phil Lesh & The Terrapin Family Band), and Adam MacDougall (Chris Robinson Brotherhood, […]
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Anniversary Cheers: The Chicks “Taking The Long Way” celebrates 20 years

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The Chicks re-release their wonderful 2026 ‘comeback’ album on triple vinyl and streaming platforms, with extra tracks and demos. In 2006, after a four-year break (ostensibly for family and parenting reasons), The Dixie Chicks, as they […]

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Interview: Fischer-Z’s John Watts reminisces on 50 years of making heartfelt music

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The songs of John Watts, whether in his band Fischer-Z, in his other bands or as a solo artist, aren’t technically Americana, but everything in their construction and recording has the feel of exactly what Americana […]
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Interview: Shawn Colvin, celebrating 30 years of “A Few Small Repairs”

September 29, 2026 2
Shawn Colvin has long established herself as one of the most captivating of singer-songwriters. She’s an accomplished guitar player, possessed of a fine voice, and she’s a storyteller of great talent. Her first album, Steady On, […]
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Behind the Songs: Maya de Vitry “All My Faith”

September 15, 2026 0
If you arrive at All My Faith looking for something that sounds like Gillian Welch, you might find your thirst briefly satiated by No Time to Rush, the final track on Maya de Vitry’s 2026 release, but […]

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Start your week with the upbeat sound and positive message of Landon Lloyd Miller’s debut solo single.  Formerly a member of Louisiana-based band The Wall Chargers, ‘Light is Growing’ finds Miller confidently following his own musical […]
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Gordie Tentrees & Jaxon Haldane, The Doublet, Glasgow, 12th February 2019

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Here for some winter warmth away from their native sub zero Manitoba, Gordie Tentrees and Jaxon Haldane kicked off what local promoters, Sounds In The Suburbs are calling their Canadian season, with an effervescent show which […]
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Dave Luke & Chuck Micallef “Shardows and Light” (Independent, 2017)

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The question of authenticity is something of a bother from time to time – particularly when it comes to music. That age old, folk club-endorsed argument of whether it’s okay for an Englishman to affect an […]

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