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Andy Hedges “Eight Bucks & Change” – counting up a life’s achievements

March 20, 2026 0
Andy Hedges’ latest album The Westerner is a collection of songs that straddle strands of the cowboy life and experience – whether that be on songs that are old enough now to be called traditional, and […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Cuchulain “It’s Always Something”

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The new single from singer-songwriter Cuchulain is full of humour, presenting us with a range of crazy situations and challenging circumstances. In his laid-back, conversational style, Cuchulain shares things that go wrong, and it’s a theme […]
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The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Davidson

March 19, 2026 0
This is the final AUK writers’ choice of Top Ten Americana Songs of All Time. Watch out for the countdown to the song voted Number 1, coming shortly. I finalised this feature knowing Moses had left […]

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  • Video Premiere: Cuchulain “It’s Always Something”
  • The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Davidson
  • Live Review: Charm Of Finches, Stables 2, Wavendon – 28th February 2026
  • Book Review: Peter Wolf “Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses”
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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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 […]
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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 […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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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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The Dry County Crooks “Life, Love And Death”

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The return of Oregon Americana-rock band The Dry County Crooks, reformed, reflective and re-energised. The Dry County Crooks are an exciting and energetic band from Portland, Oregon and ‘Life, Love And Death’ is their new EP, […]
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A legendary figure of the blues, not content to rest on his reputation, but still exploring and growing. Peter Gabriel’s Real-World Studios in rural Wiltshire is one of those recording spaces that almost seems to have […]

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