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Video: James Lloyd Smith “Favourite Colour”

August 21, 2025 Andrew Frolish 1
The new video for ‘Favourite Colour’ from Kent-based songwriter James Lloyd Smith channels the spirit of romantic movies. Delightfully tongue-in-cheek, the Dominic Sohail-directed video pokes fun at the myths and tropes of romantic love and relationships, […]

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Classic Clips: Brown Horse “Wipers”, Newport 2024

Classic Clips
March 20, 2026 0
artwork for Jim Lauderdale's album Country Super Hits Volume 2

Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”

Album Reviews
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Stephen Wilson Jr

Stephen Wilson Jr announces UK and European tour dates for autumn 2026

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Danny George Wilson

Latest AUK Podcast now available – Danny George Wilson talks about new album “Arcade”

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Andy Hedges “Eight Bucks & Change” – counting up a life’s achievements

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Classic Clips

Classic Clips: Brown Horse “Wipers”, Newport 2024

March 20, 2026 0
One of the success stories of the last couple of years have been Brown Horse. Since their first album Reservoir landed at the start of 2024 there has been a steady rise in their star, to […]
artwork for Jim Lauderdale's album Country Super Hits Volume 2
Album Reviews

Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”

March 20, 2026 0
Lauderdale releases a worthy, heartfelt follow-up twenty years later. At the age of sixty-eight, Jim Lauderdale is in top form, his voice as good as ever. The iconic songwriter, now a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame […]
Stephen Wilson Jr
News

Stephen Wilson Jr announces UK and European tour dates for autumn 2026

March 20, 2026 0
Stephen Wilson Jr. has released the latest dates for his Gary The Torch Tour, which, in addition to shows in the US West Coast and Southeast, include a series of UK and European  dates.  The tour […]

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  • Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”
  • Stephen Wilson Jr announces UK and European tour dates for autumn 2026
  • Latest AUK Podcast now available – Danny George Wilson talks about new album “Arcade”
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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
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 […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 0
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 […]
Interviews

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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The Brother Brothers “Summer Rain” – Listen

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If The Brother Brothers called somewhere in the Southern Hemisphere home then all would be well – but the twin brothers Adam and David Moss hail out of Illinois, and live in Brooklyn.  So we are […]
Live Reviews

Steve Earle and The Dukes, O2 Academy, Bristol, 17th July 2018

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It was with great anticipation that I finally got to see Steve Earle and The Dukes live for the first time when they came to the O2 Academy in Bristol. As anyone who has seen the […]
Album Reviews

MG Boulter “Clifftown”

May 4, 2021 0
Exquisite, light as air, folksy choral excellence. MG Boulter is a name well known amongst the select few, plucky Brit Americana artists. A trademark light as air voice and marshmallow-soft arrangements float through this suite of […]

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