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Sounds from beyond the Shed 127 – “Pain in the… knee”

January 12, 2024 Keith Hargreaves 2
Curse the aging process. Okay it’s time for a little honesty here. I’m on the cusp of the big 60 and have been active most of my life although to be fair I have been much […]
Columns

Shuffle: The Late Summer Holiday Playlist

September 24, 2021 David Cowling 0
This year along with millions of others, we’ve had to think differently about the kind of holiday that we will be going on. Normally we unthinkingly (well there is a bit of thought about where we […]
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VERSIONS: “Different Drum”

November 10, 2020 Paul Villers 2
Here’s another in our regular series of “VERSIONS” which is a look at tunes and how they are handled or interpreted by different artists. This time arch-versionista Rick Bayles has a look at ‘Different Drum’ in […]

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Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

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May 15, 2026 1

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

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Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”

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Classic Clips: Albert Lee “Country Boy” Live on BBC Radio 2’s ‘Weekend Wogan’ – 28th March 2010

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Tracks

Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”

May 15, 2026 1
Well that’s it from us for this week, and bear with me dear reader with the track we’re leaving you with for the weekend which despite starting off sounding like we’ve veered into covering 90s-era Britpop, […]
Album Reviews

Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”

May 15, 2026 0
Americana legends celebrate 21st-century releases on latest career retrospective. Forty years in, the Cowboy Junkies remain one of the great under-the-surface bands in Americana: despite having a million-selling classic to their name, they rarely make best-of […]
Book Reviews

Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”

May 15, 2026 0
Patrick Joseph O’Connor’s Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community reclaims an overlooked part in American musicology. While places like Chicago, Memphis, and the Mississippi Delta often dominate the story of Blues, O’Connor suggests that […]

  • Something for the weekend: Keyside “Lemon and Lime”
  • Cowboy Junkies “Open to Beauty”
  • Book Review: Patrick Joseph O’Connor “Wichita Blues: Music in the African American Community”
  • Classic Clips: Albert Lee “Country Boy” Live on BBC Radio 2’s ‘Weekend Wogan’ – 28th March 2010
  • Don’t forget our Americana 25 festival with Chuck Prophet, Steve Wynn and more – join us in Liverpool in November!
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Interview: Daniel Tashian on being a reluctant band leader and the joys of songwriting collaborations

May 14, 2026 0
Daniel Tashian is a legend in Nashville. He’s a deeply respected songwriter, he’s a solo artist with six albums to his name, he’s been in two superb bands, and he’s the go-to guy when you want […]
Behind the Songs

Behind the Songs: Thin Lear

May 13, 2026 0
The songs on Thin Lear’s sophomore album Many Disappeared are tied to each other not in their locale or their cast of characters, but instead in strange tragedies that have taken place, some many years ago. Current […]
Interviews

Interview: Judy Collins doesn’t look back, she looks forward

May 12, 2026 0
“My home is in New York City, on the Upper West Side,” Judy Collins said, proudly holding up a painting by her sister of cats and dogs that resembles a Monet. When I mentioned travelling up […]

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Video: Felix Holt & The Radicals “Buffalo 66 (True Love)

May 31, 2018 0
With a nod to Sweet Jane, this is from Felix Holt’s superbly titled forthcoming album The Next Big Nobody, out on June 8th and is a great melding of country, pop, rock’n’roll and a few other […]
Features

‘The Twang Factor’ presents: Anton O’Donnell

September 29, 2020 0
Welcome to ‘The Twang Factor’ AUK’s brand new weekly series providing a showcase for some of the best new and emerging artists around. Each week we will bring you a different artist selected from the submissions […]
Columns

Sounds from beyond the Shed – Week 95

May 10, 2023 0
Reflections and moving on So this week the Yr11s and Yr 13s have gone on study leave as the exams jostle for position in their inevitable social calendars. The whole leaver’s parties, hoodies and associated organised […]

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