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Folk Tracks Roundup – Broadside Hacks

December 4, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
This is a bit of a special Folk Tracks Roundup in that we’re not going to struggle to find a theme stitching all the song choices together, because we’re putting a bit of a spotlight on […]

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Essentials: The Top 10 Eilen Jewell Albums

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Essentials

Essentials: The Top 10 Eilen Jewell Albums

June 4, 2026 3
Let’s just start with this: Eilen Jewell has one of the smoothest voices in popular music; she sings with a jazzy tinge; she can sing honky-tonk without a twang; she can interpret rock’n’roll or country or […]
Columns

Make Americana Great Again: “Americana” – the movie

June 4, 2026 0
Well, she was an American girl / Raised on promises / She couldn’t help thinkin’ that there / Was a little more to life ~ Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers There is a movie called “Americana,” […]
Album Reviews

Sounding Arrow “Skyman”

June 4, 2026 0
Solo album number two from Truth and Salvage Co main-man. The travails of the modern world get to most of us, but it seems to affect musicians in a particularly savage way, and this second album […]

  • Essentials: The Top 10 Eilen Jewell Albums
  • Make Americana Great Again: “Americana” – the movie
  • Sounding Arrow “Skyman”
  • Chris Pierce announces his new album with a Heavy Heart
  • Lester Winchester McKendree “They Got It All”
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  • Alan Peatfield: Thanks Fred. Your high regard for Eilen is clearly evident with an articulate resume of her body of work, much…

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Interview: Ben Vaughn on being true to yourself and the joys of recording an album in your car

May 29, 2026 0
To say Ben Vaughn has had an eclectic musical career would be a gross understatement. He grew up in the Philadelphia area, and his journey into music began when a kind uncle gave him a Duane […]
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Interview: Beau Jennings – In Tribute to Will Rogers and the Verdigris

May 27, 2026 0
If History was your favourite class in school, raise your digital hand. Only two? Come on, the subject is not that dull. Now pay attention. Today, we are going to learn about a river called the […]
Interviews

Interview: Truman Sinclair – “it’s hope or die pretty much”

May 26, 2026 3
Chicago-born and LA-based singer-songwriter Truman Sinclair will be a new name to many AUK readers, although the more observant of you will have noticed his song Joel Roberts topped my top tracks of 2025 list published […]

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May 1, 2019 0
It’s been a while since we’ve heard from Chicago based singer-songwriter Brad Peterson: not that he hasn’t been busy.  Many trips to the lumber yard and many hours of labour have provided him with a musical […]
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Album Reviews

Tattercoats “Westways”

January 7, 2026 0
Folk duo marries the old with the new on down-to-earth debut. Not the fairytale you may be more familiar with, but a musical venture from New York-based wife-and-husband folk duo, Ned Joyner and Charlotte Wager Miller. […]
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Sounds from beyond the Shed 181 “Gig Comfort…again”

April 17, 2025 0
Mrs H and I went to Holland last week in the jalopy. A lovely time was had by both of us, despite the bracing wind lancing in off the Zuiderzee where we were camped. Something very […]

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