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Video Premiere: Grain Thief “Tapawingo”

October 28, 2025 Andrew Frolish 1
‘Tapawingo’, the new single from roots string band Grain Thief, is simply beautiful music to lose yourself in.  Displaying excellent musicianship and songcraft, Grain Thief perform with grace and elegance, creating timeless, immersive music.  The Boston-based quintet […]
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Grain Thief “House Of The Dog”

July 24, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0
A musically fun, if sometimes lyrically dark, fifth full-length from Boston string band Grain Thief. One of the benefits of reviewing albums for AUK is getting to hear artists that would almost certainly have gone unnoticed […]
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AUK’s Bluegrass Briefs

January 10, 2023 Tim Martin 0
My colleague Paul Kerr started reporting on the Albums and EPs which don’t make the cut for a full review with his Short Cuts recently. But there is an area of Americana that sits on its […]
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Patrick Mulroy “Other People’s Houses”

November 29, 2022 Cam Fraser 0
Grain Thief guitarist and vocalist rediscovers his heartland rock roots on his solo outing. Patrick Mulroy is guitarist, vocalist and one of the main songwriters in Boston-based band, Grain Thief. They’ve been described as a grassicana […]
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Grain Thief “Something Sour, Something Sweet”

January 12, 2022 Martin Johnson 0
They may be grassicana but Grain Thief also have old-time chops as well Grassicana was first coined in 2017 to cover music that was influenced by bluegrass and its instrumentation but that also included elements from […]

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

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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 […]
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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 1
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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