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Essentials: The Top 10 Danny George Wilson songs

June 8, 2023 GrahamBollands 3
Danny George Wilson needs absolutely no introduction. Whether you’ve been on the journey with him since the late 90s when Grand Drive were formed, are familiar with the wonderful ‘The Famous Mad Mile’ solo album release […]
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AUK’s Top 10 Americana Albums of the 21st Century: Graham Bollands

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Let’s start this in a familiar way! Yes, what an incredibly difficult task it is to make this list. Not just because putting together any countdown of ‘best albums’ is a huge challenge and so dependent […]
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Danny & The Champions of the World “Los Campeones En Vivo”

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Rocking in the Mountains of Spain. “What was your last gig before lockdown?” must be one of the most frequently asked questions of the past year. As we look forward to a return to live music […]
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Interview: Champ Paul Lush on Araluen and his own musical journey

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Musical omnivore and guitar for hire Champ on his own songwriting and influences. It may just be a case of the best of three when Danny and the Champions of the World guitarist Paul Lush finally […]
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Araluen “And There It Is”

January 25, 2021 Paul Campbell 0
Well crafted country-soul songs with a hint of other paths Araluen’s “And There It Is” is the vehicle for Paul Lush’s collection of songs. Lush contributes guitar to Danny and the Champions and has recruited Steve […]

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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

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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”

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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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Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

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An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

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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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Jason Isbell announces short run of EU/UK solo dates

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You get the feeling that as he stepped off the stage at the Eventim Apollo (better known to music lovers as the Hammersmith Odeon) on 25th November, Jason Isbell signed off on the press release for […]
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10 songs showing how the human spirit deals with illness

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Before free and easy access to doctors and medical care, many people struggled to understand disease. This is where folk and popular songs of the day played an important role in public awareness. The birth of […]

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