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Calexico “Harness The Wind” – I’ll tell you where the four winds dwell

March 7, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
With a sound pitched between the red hot desert and the Columbian folk sounds of cumbia, Calexico’s latest song from the new album ‘El Mirador’ (out April 8th) is going to dance across your ears like […]
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Video: Calexico “El Mirador”

February 28, 2022 Ed Donnelly 0
Coming on the heels of their triumphant collaboration with Dean Owens, Calexico returns with the video for their new single ‘El Mirador’.   The song is the title track from their new album that will be released […]
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Interview: Dean Owens and Joey Burns on the recording of “Sinner’s Shrine” – The Crystal Frontier meets the Water of Leith

February 11, 2022 Paul Kerr 0
AUK’s 2021 winner of Best UK Act, Scotland’s Dean Owens, and Calexico’s Joey Burns talk of how they bonded in a sun blasted Tucson, cemented their friendship in a wintry Edinburgh, and went on to record […]
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Video: Dean Owens “After the Rain”

February 11, 2022 Andrew Frolish 1
Here is the latest single from Scottish singer-songwriter and AUK favourite Dean Owens.  ‘After the Rain’ was originally recorded with Owens’ band The Felsons back in 1996; it’s a timeless song of love and hope that […]
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Shuffle: Toomey, to you: an appreciation of Jenny Toomey

November 12, 2021 David Cowling 0
Jenny Toomey was prominent on the Washington DC Hardcore scene in the early 1990s, she played in several bands including Choke, Geek and most notably in Tsunami. It’s not this part of her career that I’m […]

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Book Review: Tom Piazza “Living In The Present With John Prine”

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During the opening lines of the foreword to Tom Piazza’s latest book, Living In The Present With John Prine, the widow of one of the finest songwriters of his generation, Fiona Prine, describes how her late […]
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Classic Clips: Billy Bragg, Hank Wangford and Brendan Croker “Sin City” – Live on the Whistle Test, Rock Around the Clock, 21st September 1986

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The Old Grey Whistle Test (which in its final years was abbreviated to the Whistle Test) was commissioned by David Attenborough and ran from 1971 to 1988. Broadcast annually on BBC Two between 1984 and 1986, […]
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Invest time and listen carefully, and you may find reward with this deep, introspective record. Trippers & Askers is the recording and songwriting project of Jay Hammond, musician, sound artist, educator and researcher. He is currently […]

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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