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Dr John “Walk On Guilded Splinters” – laying some gris-gris on y’all

May 9, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0

Mac Rebennack took on the mantle of Dr John, the Nightripper on the classic album ‘Gris-Gris‘ released in 1968.  It’s fair to say that it set a musical direction for most of the rest of Rebennack’s […]

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From New York hippie chick to grande dame of American roots music. She started out as a New York hippie jug band chick playing with David Grisman and John Sebastian in the Even Dozen Jug Band […]

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A Night to Remember: We’re seeing who?!

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A night to remember? We sure do like to set ourselves a challenge – and part of that is to avoid some gauche “bragging rights” list. Honestly, it’s the gigs I could have made but missed […]

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Them Dirty Dimes “In Gold We Trust”

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Precisely played and entertaining jazz/roots Dutch debut. There was a little debate at AUK central about exactly where this offering sat genre-wise until musical uber galactico (see that clever meld of the kings of European football […]

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AUK’s Chain Gang: The Band “Rag Mama Rag”

January 26, 2021 Gordon Sharpe 0

Following on from last week’s ‘Mama’ theme, here is one of my favourite Band tracks.  It exemplifies the sort of raucous almost ramshackle sound at which they excelled and which proves irresistible. Not the best quality […]

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

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From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

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