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Old Crow Medicine Show will release latest record Union Made in early June

May 19, 2026 Richard Parkinson 0
Old Crow Medicine Show will release their new record Union Made on 5th June 2026 with Hartland Records via Firebird Music. The album finds the two-time Grammy-winning string band reflecting upon the people, places, and stories […]
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More People Should Really Know About: The Travelin’ McCourys

September 30, 2025 Martin Johnson 2
Time and history have seen Del McCoury become the elder statesman of bluegrass, a music he has preserved and developed through his long career. He is such a pivotal figure in bluegrass because he has effortlessly […]
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Robert’s Western World celebrates 25 years with street party and livestream

August 1, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Any music fan who has visited Nashville will have spent at least one evening at Robert’s Western World on Lower Broadway.  In 2024, the venue, known as Nashville’s Home of Traditional Country Music, is celebrating its […]
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Del McCoury Band “Once Again” – some blues are just blues, these are the low down blues

November 25, 2021 Jonathan Aird 0
Del McCoury has a new album on the way, ‘…Almost Proud‘, and this is the new single from it which sees Del in a blue state of mind.  It’s a bluegrass blues, of course.  What can […]
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Del McCoury “Running Wild” – lost control, running wild, mighty bold

November 9, 2021 Jonathan Aird 1
Speaking of people who need no introduction – entranced by Earl Scruggs’ playing, took up the banjo and joined Bill Monroe in 1963 and the rest really is Bluegrass History.  This is not only the purest […]

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Something for the weekend: Starpainter “I Found a River”

June 12, 2026 0
Well that’s it from us for this week and we leave you dear reader with a new video for a new song by Alberta-based sextet Starpainter which YES I KNOW we ran last week, but Jon […]
artwork for Kris Drever album "Doing This For Love"
Album Reviews

Kris Drever “Doing This For Love”

June 12, 2026 2
Meditations on the unglamorous, but with melodic hooks, from Scottish folk-award winner Anyone coming to this album for their first experience of Kris Drever may well be expecting something fairly traditional in light of his many […]
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Classic Clips: Jesse Colin Young “Darkness Darkness” – All Star Jam, Capitol Theatre, Passaic, New Jersey, 1984

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Jesse Colin Young passed away just over a year ago, on the 16th of March, at the age of eighty-three. Born Perry Miller and raised in Queens, New York, to musical parents, Young initially found fame […]

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Interview: Dirk Powell on “Wake” and bridging modern and age-old roots music

June 11, 2026 2
Dirk Powell is a special kind of musician, someone who, through family connections, knows and understands both Appalachia and Cajun music, and is at the same time comfortable with modern music technology. He has won four […]
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Interview: Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is thriving

June 10, 2026 0
With influences in blues, jazz and country, Ma Polaine’s Great Decline is actually thriving on their fifth album, Monster Swan (2025). Based in Somerset, England, Beth Packer’s distinctive, emotive vocals, coupled with her evocative lyrics, create […]
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Interview: Greg Loftus – As both musician and carpenter, he would like to knock on wood

June 5, 2026 1
Greg Loftus comes from the town of Bourne, not far from the bridge that connects Massachusetts to Cape Cod. It is there that he practices woodworking, operates a club in nearby Falmouth and makes rock music […]

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Our new playlist of the best new Americana we’ve heard over the last month is out later today exclusively for AUK supporters which includes new tracks by The Delines, Jason Isbell, Holly Lovell, Rhona Macfarane, Patterson […]

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