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Live Review: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk 5th-7th July, 2024

August 7, 2024 Peter Feldon 3
Here’s the first of two reports from last month’s Maverick Festival. It’s one of AUK’s favourite weekends and we were fortunate enough to have two of our reviewers attend this year. It’s more than likely the […]
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2023’s Americana festivals – where we are spending our summer?

May 26, 2023 Emily Dongray 2
In the blinking dawn of the new year, many of the festivals announced their line-ups. They dropped exciting news about headliners, and some early-bird tickets went on sale, but in the wave of resolutions and starting […]
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Live Preview: Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 30th June – 2nd July 2023

May 16, 2023 Andrew Frolish 0
If you love country and Americana, then at Maverick you’ll feel like your music has come home.  These days we are blessed with a number of great festivals but there is something particularly special about the […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: Friday Night at Maverick Festival, Easton Farm Park, Suffolk – 1st July 2022

July 14, 2022 Andrew Frolish 3
Festival season continues and, having barely recovered from Black Deer, it was time to bask in the late-evening sunshine at Easton Farm Park. Since 2008, Maverick Festival has been celebrating some of the finest Americana and […]
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Twang Factor 2 winner Jess Jocoy announces UK Summer tour

March 4, 2022 Emily Dongray 0
AUK Twang Factor 2 winner Jess Jocoy has announced an 18-show tour in the UK for Summer 2022 with further dates for Scotland and Ireland expected to be added. Starting with a gig at The Green […]

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Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]
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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

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Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

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

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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 […]
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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

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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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Video premiere: Lilly Hiatt “I Wanna Go Home” (Acoustic)

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