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Paperback Riders – Robert Palmer “Deep Blues”

August 26, 2022 Tim Martin 0
Having read the brilliant review of Mat Callahan’s ‘Songs of Slavery and Emancipation’ from Rick Bayles and Paul Kerr recently, it seemed like a good idea to look at one of the most vivid pictures of […]

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The Morning Line polish up their Stars on a new label and look to the future

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Gin Wigmore “Beautiful Mess”

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The latest AUK Podcast is now available featuring Laura Veirs

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Kaz Murphy “Iowa Ohio Arizona” – swinging places for swinging people

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Video: Ned Collette “Commandeered Parade” – new horror from old books on the shelf

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The Morning Line polish up their Stars on a new label and look to the future

August 14, 2026 0
Big Stir Records has announced the upcoming release of Stars, a career-encompassing yet completely new collection from acclaimed San Francisco Bay Area band The Morning Line (and they’re not horse racing pundits). A 21-track ‘bonanza’ featuring […]
Album Reviews

Gin Wigmore “Beautiful Mess”

August 14, 2026 0
New Zealand singer-songwriter returns after an 8-year hiatus with an album of two parts. Gin Wigmore is something of a star in her homeland of New Zealand, although she has spent 13 of the last 15 […]
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The latest AUK Podcast is now available featuring Laura Veirs

August 14, 2026 0
A fabulous chat with Laura Veirs is the centrepiece of this week’s podcast on the day of the release of her latest album, Temple Songs. Laura chats from her studio in Portland about the album, its […]

  • The Morning Line polish up their Stars on a new label and look to the future
  • Gin Wigmore “Beautiful Mess”
  • The latest AUK Podcast is now available featuring Laura Veirs
  • Kaz Murphy “Iowa Ohio Arizona” – swinging places for swinging people
  • Video: Ned Collette “Commandeered Parade” – new horror from old books on the shelf
  • Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard
  • Allison Russell “In The Hour of Chaos”
  • Grey DeLisle to release latest album “Don’t Turn Around” in autumn
  • Muireann Bradley to release new EP and adds tour dates
  • Pieta Brown “Dreamin’ Of”
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Interviews

Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]
Interviews

Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]
Interviews

Interview: Frank Turner reflects on 20 years of Campfire Punkrock

August 11, 2026 0
Remarkably, it is twenty years since Frank Turner released his first solo EP: Campfire Punkrock. The very title was both a statement of intent and a conscious identifier, defining his sound and the purpose of his […]

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Tracks

Liv Greene “New York’s Arms” – Listen

March 27, 2020 0
Liv Greene’s new song ‘New York’s Arms‘ is a beautiful song about lifting yourself up after a let down.  In this case that of seeing “you in the arms of another that night” and the realisation […]
Tracks

Something for the weekend: Angel Olsen & Sturgill Simpson “Big Time”

September 23, 2022 0
Well that’s it for us from another week dear reader, and we leave you with a new version of a song we featured here on AUK a few months back from the wonderful Angel Olsen. It’s […]
Album Reviews

Chatham County Line “Sharing the Covers” (Yep Roc, 2019)

February 22, 2019 0
‘Sharing the Covers’ is Chatham County Line’s eighth album, which means fans of this Raleigh-based fourpiece know by now they’ll likely be in for a faultlessly produced and smoothly performed collection of bluegrass music  – and […]

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