Great Lake Swimmers

Great Lake Swimmers declare that their youth was not wasted on new album

September 19, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0

Toronto-based band Great Lake Swimmers have announced their latest album, “Caught Light“, is due out October 10 and available to pre-order now. Along with the announcement, the group have released ‘Youth Not Wasted’ as a single […]

Video: Great Lake Swimmers “Promise of Spring”

September 27, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0

Great Lake Swimmers are about to release a deluxe version of their recent, well-received album ‘Uncertain Country’. The new edition, due to drop on 29th September 2023, will feature acoustic versions of six of the album […]

Something for the weekend: Great Lake Swimmers “Peacemaker”

September 22, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

That’s it from us for another week dear reader and we leave you with a new release from Ontario’s Great Lake Swimmers who have never actually confirmed if they can all swim but they do make […]

Something for the long weekend: Great Lake Swimmers “Swimming Like Flying”

April 28, 2023 Mark Whitfield 0

Neglect dear reader comes in all kinds of different forms but the cruelest kind for AUK readers is when the PR for a great band entirely relevant to our audience don’t send us their new album […]

Track Premiere: Great Lake Swimmers “Getting To The Heart Of It”

March 4, 2020 Jonathan Aird 0

There’s a lot of good news attached to this Premiere of a new song from Great Lake Swimmers. Not only is ‘Getting to the Heart of It‘ a great song from Tony Dekker, reverberating beautifully as […]

Something for the weekend: Shania Twain featuring the Milk Carton Kids “Who Do You Love”

October 9, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week, a week which has felt like a cloud has been hanging over our americana community if we’re being honest for obvious reasons. Don’t forget we still have some […]

The Texas Headhunters “Rise and Shine”

October 9, 2026 0

A heads-down, no-nonsense, sprightly mess of blues. The Texas Headhunters are a three-headed guitar Methuselah consisting of Jesse Dayton, Ian Moore, and Johnny Moeller; coming from road-hardened backgrounds playing in clubs and bars, the outcome is […]

Nanci Griffith at Cambridge Folk Festival - 29th July 2007

Classic Clips: Nanci Griffith “The Flyer” – Tennessee Theatre, Knoxville, 2002

October 9, 2026 1

In the long and storied career of the late, great Nanci Griffith, a musical legacy has been left behind that will, in years to come, surely stand the test of time just as much as it […]