As 2022 draws to a close and we get ready to celebrate the festive season in our different ways, we bring you our final video post of the year. ‘Christmas in Prison’ is one of the […]
Mixing folk and country with leftish politics to make music that can speak to the working class. Mary Gauthier is a songwriter’s songwriter who was also fated to play her songs to an audience. She didn’t […]
As regular readers are aware, the object of the articles in the Chain Gang series is to find something in the one that precedes yours that you can link to and write about. I scoured Andrew […]
In last week’s Chain Gang, we saw the glorious afternoon in Glasgow when Billy Bragg, Cara Tivey and Michael Stipe performed a cover of ‘Hello in There’ by the legendary John Prine. The next link in […]
As the summer holidays draw to a close, ‘retro Friday’ takes us back – not too far – to John Prine’s instant classic ‘Summer’s End’. John Prine needs no introduction to AUK readers and this song, […]
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