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Merry Christmas to all our readers from the AUK team

December 23, 2025 Mark Whitfield 5
Well that’s it from us for this year. A huge thank you to you our readers for your ongoing support and sticking with us through typos, glitches and accidentally posting in the middle of the night. […]
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Something for the weekend: Fountains of Wayne “Valley Winter Song”

April 1, 2022 Mark Whitfield 0
Well that’s it from us for another week dear reader. Today is the second anniversary of the passing of the Fountains of Wayne’s Adam Schlesinger, one of the first musicians whose life was taken by Covid. […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed Week 40

December 17, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 5
Happy Christmas I think… So here it comes like a speeding bullet – the end of term. Feels more like the end of days when watching current news bulletins. Couple of questions: Why when reporters ask […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 31

October 13, 2021 Keith Hargreaves 0
Looking forward to a week in the van Half term is coming and with it the thought of a week in the trusty van firstly alongside the Oxford canal and then onto the wilds of broadest […]
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Something for the (long) weekend: Fountains of Wayne “Workingman’s Hands”

April 1, 2021 Mark Whitfield 0
That’s it for this week dear reader as we take our Easter break until Tuesday, during which time we’ll be drinking frozen beer in our gardens with loved ones and wishing we were somewhere in the […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 Americana Tribute Albums

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The tribute album seems to have leapt in popularity in recent times. The tribute element can take numerous forms: celebrating, honouring an influential artist, raising the profile of an artist, raising money for good causes (including […]
Cover art Paul Slade Book "Blood On The Leaves"
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Book Review: Paul Slade “Blood On The Leaves”

June 11, 2026 0
A few years ago, at a local gig to see the Pennsylvania band The Stray Birds, the crowd was overall polite and receptive to the music; however, let us just say they needed to warm up. […]
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Ben Chapman “Feet On Fire”

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Country rock and soul combine to fine effect on Ben Chapman’s latest release. In 2019, David Hepworth published the latest in his excellent sequence of books about rock music, and the stars and rascals who purveyed, […]

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

June 11, 2026 0
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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Video Premiere: Robert Vincent “Come Pick Me Up”

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This is surely what Americana UK is all about: a classic song from a revered American songwriter performed brilliantly by one of the UK’s outstanding exponents of the genre.  ‘Come Pick Me Up’ is one of […]
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Video Premiere: Gabriel Douglas “Hearts Want”

December 21, 2020 0
The visual for ‘Hearts Want’ is all about travelling through a variety of different landscapes and it complements the song’s emotional journey well.  Gabriel Douglas’s slow, sonorous vocal over a steady guitar strum is simple yet […]
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Harmony Rockets with Peter Walker “Lachesis/Clotho/Atropos” (Tompkins Square, 2019)

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Harmony Rockets is kind of a sideline project for Mercury Rev’s Grasshopper and Jonathan Donahue, allowing them to go off-piste as it were and indulge themselves. Here they team up with the little known but well […]

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