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Interview: Americana UK’s Twang Factor winner Anton O’Donnell, a true troubadour

August 1, 2024 Paul Kerr 0
Anton O’Donnell spills the beans on hooking up with his American-based label and on the joys of being a true roving troubadour. Glasgow-based singer-songwriter Anton O’Donnell was the winner of AUK’s first ever Twang Factor back […]
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‘The Twang Factor’ presents: The Winner’s Session with Anton O’Donnell

March 2, 2021 Clint West 0
Last year’s inaugural ‘Twang Factor’ introduced us to some wonderful artists and culminated in a readers’ vote that crowned Glasgow’s Anton O’Donnell as your winner. We promised you more from Anton and here it is, as […]
Features

‘The Twang Factor’ presents: Anton O’Donnell

September 29, 2020 Clint West 0
Welcome to ‘The Twang Factor’ AUK’s brand new weekly series providing a showcase for some of the best new and emerging artists around. Each week we will bring you a different artist selected from the submissions […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Anton & The Colts “Boy Living for the Weekend”

June 15, 2020 Andrew Frolish 0
Here is an upbeat, foot-tapping, melodic rocker from Anton & The Colts.  It’s typically bluesy with guitar riffs, harmonica and Anton O’Donnell’s distinctive voice blending for an upfront sound that will be great live (if we’re […]
Live Reviews

Southern Fried Festival, Perth, Scotland, 26-29th July 2018

August 8, 2018 Paul Kerr 0
Eleven years old this year Southern Fried continues to occupy its position as the best Americana and roots music festival in Scotland and perhaps the best of its kind in the UK (although there are three […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0
Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]
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Album Reviews

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0
Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0
Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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  • Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”
  • For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”
  • Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”
  • Jack Studer “Falling Forward”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 228 “Don’t Panic”
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
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 […]
Interviews

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

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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 […]
Interviews

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 […]

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Live Reviews

Billy Bragg, Online Concert – Streaming from 9th September 2021

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An evening with Billy Bragg, and if not quite yet live in person this live-streamed event (with 30 days of return viewing) is as close as it gets right now to that elusive live experience. In […]
Tracks

Ricky Stein “The Great Empty” – Listen

April 8, 2021 0
We’re not out of the woods completely, but there are some promising signs coming with respect to the current pandemic.  Ricky Stein’s been thinking about the future – on what changes, if any, there will be […]
Album Reviews

Austin Stambaugh “Midwest Supernatural”

August 14, 2023 0
A superb set of modern country songs informed by classic country singer-songwriters. It’s a rare delight to discover an album from a new name that immediately captures your attention, indeed, grabs it and won’t let go. […]

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