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Something for the weekend: Dean Owens “Spirito”

March 14, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another week and we leave you dear reader with a short but sweet track from the new album from Scottish singer/songwriter and AUK poll winner on more occasions than we […]
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Dean Owens “Spirit Ridge”

February 18, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
Dean Owens turns east while staying on the dusty Americana trail. Dean Owens is in no danger of suffering from underexposure around these parts.  Fred Arnold’s recent review of predecessor EP set “The Ridge Trilogy” provides […]
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Interview: Dean Owens and Don Antonio on “Spirit Ridge” an album forged via friendship, family and shared connections

January 30, 2025 Paul Kerr 0
AUK award-winning Scots songwriter Dean Owens teams up with Italy’s Don Antonio and finds they actually have a lot in common as they record in a 400 hundred-year-old farmhouse and enjoy some wine along the way. […]
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Dean Owens “The Ridge Trilogy”

January 23, 2025 FredArnold 0
A captivating foretaste of Dean Owen’s forthcoming new album “Spirit Ridge“. For someone who claims to have listened to a large number of Americana artists, it’s always pleasing to come across someone you haven’t heard before […]
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Here are the results of the Americana UK Readers’ Poll 2024

December 23, 2024 Mark Whitfield 15
Well here they are – as always on our last day of publishing for the year, we can share with you the results of this year’s readers poll in which over 400 of you voted for […]

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Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

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Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]
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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

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There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]

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Have we ever said anything bad about Portland’s Jeffrey Martin?  Let’s check. Looks like a no.  His songs resonate and hit home hard, even with an easy delivery; his albums, then, are of course, essential purchases, […]
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‘I Got Wheels‘ is the latest single released to support the re-issue/compilation of the music of Full Time Men.  In the mid-to-late ’80s, Full Time Men was a part time venture of Fleshtone Keith Streng (guitar […]
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“Twin Solitude” is a perfect example of musical growth. The journey undergone and the music released by Leif Vollebeck doffs the cap to the idea of art imitating life expounded by Oscar Wilde. After all, this […]

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