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Video Interview: Matt Hill’s Salford Celebration of Guy Clark’s Catalogue on his 10th Anniversary

April 22, 2026 Martin Johnson 0
Matt Hill has combined his career as a singer-songwriter with his work as a campaigner in the charity sector and currently as a community songwriter. He has tasted success as an americana singer-songwriter and played in […]
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Matt Hill “Save Your Pity” – a life lived without regrets

July 7, 2025 Mark Whitfield 0
These days five years seems like an entire lifetime so cast your mind back if you will to the spring of 2020 where while the world was wrestling with the Covid-19 pandemic, there were still musical […]
Album Reviews

Various Artists “Sounds of the North West”

June 29, 2023 Helen Jones 2
A compilation that shines a deserving spotlight on some great emerging and more established talent from the North West of England. There is, it has been noticed, a high volume of AUK writers from the North […]
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AUK’s Chain Gang: Matt Hill “Making Sense of the War”

December 15, 2021 Sean Hannam 0
Last week’s Chain Gang entry was award-winning acapella trio The Young’uns’ version of Billy Bragg’s ‘Between The Wars’. That song was also covered by Northern English americana / folk / protest singer-songwriter, Quiet Loner – aka […]
Album Reviews

Matt Hill “Savage Pilgrims” (Quiet Loner Recordings, 2020)

July 3, 2020 Keith Hargreaves 1
Matt Hill’s first release under his own name rather than the Quiet Loner moniker that has graced a number of high-quality releases in recent years opens with a jaunty banjo-driven lament ‘Stone and Bone’ which sets […]

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Album Reviews

Still Life Painter “A Month of Longest Days”

May 21, 2026 0
Lowland lo-fi compositions of “love, loss and lap steel”. Phil Smith was part of Glasgow’s thriving indie-rock scene before embarking on his solo venture as Still Life Painter. In 2018, he took on bass duties for […]
Press photo for Jacob McCoy's EP "Deep Deep Water"
EP Round Up

AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up

May 21, 2026 0
Okay, I’m back. And before we turn our attention to this month’s wares, can I start by thanking my esteemed colleague Fred Arnold, who, in my absence, kindly picked up the baton for April’s edition of […]
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Rob Burger “Valley People” – with Iron & Wine

May 21, 2026 0
Well, this is that rare thing, a doubly old new song: Valley People originally started life as an instrumental piece that Rob Burger wrote during a break from a demanding touring stretch. The piece began as […]

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Interview: Teddy Thompson on change, habit and Never Staying the Same

May 20, 2026 0
There’s something quietly disarming about Teddy Thompson. Across a career that has never quite sat comfortably within genre lines, he’s built a catalogue defined less by reinvention than by a kind of forensic emotional honesty; songs […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Peter Case On His Life In Music

May 19, 2026 2
Peter Case, one of the master songwriters, has enjoyed a fifty-year recording career and has been writing songs for even longer. He was born in Buffalo, New York, but his recording career has been centred on […]
Interviews

Interview: John Oates can’t stop the music and is still making his dreams come true

May 18, 2026 1
At 77 years young, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame vocalist is as active as ever, having released two albums: 2024’s stripped-down, acoustic Reunion and 2025’s groovy Oates, in the past two years, while regularly […]

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Video Premiere: Graham Brown Band “Haunted”

July 8, 2021 0
Here’s the atmospheric new single from Vancouver’s Graham Brown Band.  Featuring a driving rhythm and strong bass line, the song pulls you in and then keeps your attention thanks to an engaging, ranging vocal melody.  A […]
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Live Reviews

Live Review: Blair Dunlop + Rob Nicklas, Newbald Village Hall, North Newbald, Yorkshire – 22nd November 2024

December 9, 2024 2
The Village  Hall, at North Newbald, in East Yorkshire is fast becoming one of my favourite venues, despite the 90 minute journey from home, as it consistently delivers some of the best live music on offer […]
Features

The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Darren Lumbroso

November 30, 2023 1
The power of live music never fails to appeal, as well as move me. This list has been heavily influenced by artists I’ve seen perform live. It may have only been once, it may have been […]

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