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Can’t Live With it, Can’t Live Without it: Drive-By Truckers

December 18, 2024 Andrew Raw 0

I first clapped eyes on Drive-By Truckers when they were on the Jools Holland Show in 2010 playing ‘Birthday Boy’ from “The Big to Do” album. I had always had a bit of a soft spot […]

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Patterson Hood announces new solo album “Exploding Trees and Airplane Screams”

November 22, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

His first for 12 years – packed with friends and Truckers. Patterson Hood the co-founder of of The Drive By Truckers and fierce political commentator has revealed his latest work as a solo album called “Exploding […]

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Jerry Joseph launches livestream webcast ‘OIL’

October 29, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Portland’s Jerry Joseph, the prolific and accomplished songwriter,  powerful performer and notable campaigner is coming to the UK to promote his new venture “OIL”, his new livestream, ‘Where music, spirit and community meet’, which launched in the […]

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For the Sake of the Song: The Drive-By Truckers “Play It All Night Long”

June 10, 2024 Andy Davidson 0

I’ve just finished reading Steven Hyden’s new book: ‘There Was Nothing You Could Do: Bruce Springsteen’s “Born In The USA” and the End of the Heartland’, a book highly recommended by Patterson Hood. Steven Hyden also […]

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Sounds from beyond the Shed 140: “Fame, I’m going to live forever…”

May 3, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 0

Last week’s article alluded to Mrs H doing something secret that I couldn’t know about but the cat has emerged from the bag this week as it appears that the choir that she sings with (see […]

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Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “California Wasted”

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  • Something for the weekend: Toad the Wet Sprocket “California Wasted”
  • Live Review: Midlake + The Bretheren, Electric Ballroom, London – 6th February 2026
  • Anniversary Cheers: Slim Dunlap’s “Every Little Word” is a reissue of his two solo albums 30 years on, with added extras
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The banjo is a glorious instrument that can do a lot of ill in the wrong hands. It’s not easy to proudly, confidently pluck out some hot licks and really hard to play it with the […]

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Behind the Songs: Polite Company “Please Go Wild”

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Alan Gregg is a native Kiwi transplanted to North London with a spotty resumé to his credit. Not intending to be impolite, but prospective employers might be taken aback, curious as to what he has been […]

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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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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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Something for the weekend: Christian Kjellvander “Slow Walk In The Country”

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That’s it from us for another week dear reader. If you’re one of our beloved AUK supporters your new playlist arrives this afternoon at 5pm and one lucky reader will be winning a vinyl copy of […]

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Something for the weekend: Artists for Action “Which Side Are You On?”

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Well that’s it from us for this week dear reader. In September of 2022 an international folk supergroup consisting of 16 artists (including Bruce Cockburn, Ani DiFranco and Martin Simpson) from six countries on four continents […]

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Jack Henderson “Where’s The Revolution” (Fretsore Records , 2020)

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Making a high-quality record is an expensive business at the best of times and in these challenging days, it seems that more and more artists are having to dig deep into their musical bag of tricks […]

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