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AUK Shortcuts February 2023: Novelty Island, Rust Dust, Nolen Sellwood, Steve Stoeckel, D’Arcs Family Jams and Del Shannon…

February 23, 2023 Paul Kerr 0
Our latest Short Cuts, an occasional feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]

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Track Premiere: Lone Piñon “El Tecolote”

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Video Premiere: Naomi Campbell “The Cottage” – who will sleep in that old White House tonight?

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Jim Lauderdale and The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “The Birds Know”

Album Reviews
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Ian Prowse announces 12th album and extensive tour dates

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Tenderness “True”

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Tracks

Track Premiere: Lone Piñon “El Tecolote”

April 15, 2026 0
What a melting pot of music this Americana thing is – and here’s an opportunity for us to further expand our horizons as we look towards Northern New Mexico and the band Lone Piñon.  This song […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Naomi Campbell “The Cottage” – who will sleep in that old White House tonight?

April 15, 2026 0
The ethereal new solo single from Naomi Campbell, a member of Motel Sundown, carries us back in time, conveying us there through a wistful melody and her yearning vocals. With a sense of forlorn nostalgia, The […]
Album Reviews

Jim Lauderdale and The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “The Birds Know”

April 14, 2026 0
Superb collaboration from an americana legend and bluegrass torchbearers. Well, where to start with Jim Lauderdale? The man is so prolific that the virtual ink on the review of his last album, Country Super Hits Volume […]

  • Track Premiere: Lone Piñon “El Tecolote”
  • Video Premiere: Naomi Campbell “The Cottage” – who will sleep in that old White House tonight?
  • Jim Lauderdale and The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys “The Birds Know”
  • Ian Prowse announces 12th album and extensive tour dates
  • Tenderness “True”
  • Bluegrass Briefs: Unspoken Tradition, Square Peg, Big Richard, New Valley String Band
  • Ruth Eliza “While The Light Shines”
  • Ardentjohn “Hey Boy” – doing all right in the sunshine
  • Video: The Long Version “Late Bloomer”
  • For The Sake Of The Song: The Rolling Stones “Wild Horses”
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  • Fred Beck: Nice piece, Chas! How about that other slice of Stones Americana from the same LP, “Dead Flowers”?
  • Richard Parkinson: That one is classified as an EP (Wiki; Discogs)
  • Andy Short: Agreed Alan, saw her at a Pocklington Festival many years ago and Tift was the opening act. Still put on…

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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 […]
Interviews

Interview: The Breath’s Stuart McCallum and Ríoghnach Connolly on collaborating with the Paraorchestra

April 7, 2026 0
How to achieve true musical Symbiosis. The Breath are guitarist Stuart McCallum and singer Ríoghnach Connolly, and they ensure that the song is always at the centre of their alt-folk sound. That sound is rich, reflecting […]
Interviews

Interview: Cynthia Marchant on the Ozarks, fast cars and the passing of time

April 7, 2026 0
In 2022, with her second studio album, Flesh and Bone, Cynthia Marchant explored spiritual truth and depth, and the magic of connecting with self and others in the many stages of life. Three years later, she’s […]

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Garrett Owen “No One To Save You” – Listen

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Garrett Owen’s new song ‘No One to Save You Now‘ is a world-weary troubadour’s song – weary as hell and having to get ready for the show whilst managing a long-distance relationship which seems to be […]
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Andrew Combs’ debut gets re-release, with UK dates

January 16, 2019 0
Dashing Nashville native (but now Nashville based) Andrew Combs kicks off his European tour this week, which coincides with a re-issue of his first album, ‘Worried Man’. The deluxe digital edition includes new re-cuts of two […]
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James Edwyn & the Borrowed Band “Highlights of the Low Nights”

June 23, 2022 0
A record which singlehandedly destroys the cliché of the ‘difficult third album’, possibly forever. “Oh I just don’t know where to begin,” Elvis Costello once sang in the opening line of his classic New Wave hit […]

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