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Video: Dusty Wright “Where to Be” – now I know where to go

January 7, 2026 Andrew Frolish 0
Written with London-based singer-songwriter David Ogilvy, the latest video from Dusty Wright is a brilliantly melodic song that explores the comfort to be found in our memories. Wright’s vocal performance is gently tuneful as he winds […]
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Dusty Wright “That’s All Right” – deconstructed

July 3, 2024 Jonathan Aird 0
A song taken from Dusty Wright’s new album ‘Dusted Off‘ (reviewed here) offering versions of favourite songs that he has enjoyed covering over the years.  This take on Arthur “Big Boy” Crudup’s tune from 1946 is […]
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AUK Shortcuts February 2024: Luke Callen, Pierce Crask, Casey Neill & The Norway Rats, James Varda, Dusty Wright, Brooks Williams, Jim Byrne, Red Sammy and Cowboy Kerouac with Cocaine Fairies

February 29, 2024 Paul Kerr 2
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]
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AUK Shortcuts January 2024: Doug Schmude, Cary Morin, Lars Nagel, Sturt Avenue, Dusty Wright, Puppets For Poets, Grey DeLisle, Thanks Light, Light Coloured Coat, The Lovely Basement, Rain Town Seers, Daniel Young, John Louis and Blair Borax

January 31, 2024 Paul Kerr 2
Our latest Short Cuts, a monthly feature where AUK casts a brief eye and ear on several albums we’ve received recently which just didn’t make the cut for a full review. Like most major music websites […]
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Dusty Wright “Quinn The Eskimo” – is he here yet?

March 6, 2023 Jonathan Aird 0
There are those who disagree with the statement that Dylan is one of the most significant songwriters of the 20th Century.  You can see where they are coming from – his five studio albums of his […]

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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

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Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]
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Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

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An ambitious debut album that bravely tackles some very British subjects with an americana-folk twang. The genre may be americana – and America is most certainly struggling with its own set of problems right now – […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

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While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2
At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

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It may have been a while since our last look around the world of bluegrass, but there have been some great albums released over the summer and Autumn. Tradition is a big part of bluegrass. Even […]
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There’s a bit of a clue as to what inspired Canadian Mike Riley to refocus on music in the title of his new EP – the ‘Divorce EP‘.  Having done the right thing and focused on  […]
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