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Grey DeLisle helms all-star tribute to Cindy Walker – out in October

September 22, 2025 Richard Parkinson 0

Grammy-winning artist Grey DeLisle has put together a tribute to her hero, Cindy Walker. “It’s All Her Fault: A Tribute To Cindy Walker” is due out on 10th October 2025 via Hummin’bird Records. One of the most […]

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Melissa Carper “Borned In Ya”

July 23, 2024 Guy Lincoln 0

Unique Texan voice revels in the old-times(y), again. Thirty plus years of devotion to music and music-making and three albums into a career as a solo recording artist and Melissa Carper here offers up her definitive […]

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Melissa Carper announces new album “Borned In Ya”

May 8, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0

Melissa Carper has announced her next album, ‘Borned In Ya’, which is due out 19th July 2024 via Mae Music/Thirty Tigers, ‘Borned In Ya’ is a phrase Carper heard used by Ralph Stanley to describe a […]

Features

More People Really Should Know About: Melissa Carper

August 8, 2023 Clint West 0

AUK Features Editor Clint West writes: Welcome to our latest new feature. At AUK we like to champion less well-known artists and that is exactly what this series is intended to do. Over the coming weeks […]

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Melissa Carper to finally tour UK this Summer

May 22, 2023 Emily Dongray 0

Singer-songwriter and upright bassist Melissa Carper has announced a short UK tour with four dates starting in Glasgow in mid-June. The delayed tour promotes her most recent album ‘Ramblin’ Soul‘ which came out last year. Reviewer Tim Martin […]

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Interview: Ian Gomm on Brinsley Schwarz, Nashville, Jeb Loy Nichols and football records

December 11, 2025 0

The Brinsley’s “Silver Pistol” was the album that perfected their Band obsession and, at the same time, showed that there was a lot more to them than being simple wannabes. Coincidentally, it was the first time […]

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Interview: Brian Dunne asks is it so bad to want a good life?

December 9, 2025 0

While patiently waiting for Brian Dunne to get his due from those who listen to and hopefully buy physical media, it is worthwhile to linger in the brilliance of his fourth album, “Clams Casino” (Missing Piece, […]

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Interview: David Grisman on the groundbreaking Garcia/Grisman album and more

December 8, 2025 2

The “Garcia/Grisman” album was recorded in 1991, and chances are you never heard these two master musicians sound as good as they did on this record. Jerry Garcia’s tasteful picking on this album is inspired and […]

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The Top 10 Greatest Ever Americana Artists: Keith Hargreaves

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As always in these prescriptive articles there must be a drawing of boundaries and Clint’s first article in the series seemed to have dealt with the idea that you should define americana in a narrow sense […]

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Essentials: The top 10 Steve Earle albums

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Steve Earle announced his arrival in our lives with his debut album in 1986. Since then, he has racked up almost thirty studio and live albums under his own name or in collaboration with others. I […]

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The Song Remains: Eric Taylor 1949-2020

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I heard from a colleague,  who has contact with associates of Eric Taylor, that he had died on March 9th 2020 following a period of illness. I immediately checked the web for confirmation but there was […]

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