The debt owed to James “Slim” Hand and the juke joints and honky tonks of Texas. He may have been playing music since he was seventeen years old, but it has taken until he is nearly […]
I can’t tell you exactly when I first heard this album, but I can tell you exactly where I was – in Fraser Park in Inverness with a couple of friends, huddled around a little portable […]
Connecting to last week’s ‘Try A Little Tenderness’ by Charlie Rich, I could have chosen Slim Whitman’s ‘Just An Echo In The Valley,’ also written by Jimmy Campbell, Harry M. Woods, and Reginald Connelly. But I […]
From Paul Brady to The Clancy Brothers Irish folk music is a very obvious influence. Trapper Schoepp is over ten years into his career which got a boost in 2019 when he gained a co-write for […]
A few years ago AUK ran a series called VERSIONS. It basically did what it says on the tin and invited our writers to celebrate both the original and some of the best covers of classic […]
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