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Sounds from beyond the Shed 197 “Season’s End”

August 29, 2025 Keith Hargreaves 0
Spent a few days visiting children and grandchildren over the Bank Holiday weekend and celebrating Mrs H’s birthday. And suddenly it seems that summer is over, not perhaps physically but in my head. I’m not bound […]
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Americana on Audio: Five books to listen to this summer

July 31, 2024 Tim Martin 0
With the arrival of the English school holidays book writers’ thoughts turn to advising you what to read while trying to manage the activities and expectations of children or grandchildren. At AUK we are no different, […]
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Paperback Riders – Joe Boyd “White Bicycles: Making Music in the 1960s”

May 31, 2023 Tim Martin 2
We’ve read several books that show America looking at itself, so what about an American who spent a lot of time involved with the music scene on the right-hand side of the pond? In the last […]
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Interview: D. L. Rossi on how cancer, divorce and depression have aided his songwriting

June 1, 2021 Martin Johnson 0
How personal tragedy can help  produce music that sounds uplifting. While D. L. Rossi’s musical path had taken him to Nashville that doesn’t mean his story is automatically similar to the many other aspiring singer-songwriters making […]
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Nick Drake and Wilco appear on “This is Us” soundtrack

August 16, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
If you’re a fan of the mawkish show then why not soundtrack your own life with its original music? Pitchfork reports:”The music from the first season of “This Is Us”—NBC’s tear-jerking, time-jumping drama series about a […]

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

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Kye Alfred Hillig “The All-Night Costume Company”

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Life, love and relationships are all wrapped up in one wonderful collection. Kye Alfred Hillig is based in Tacoma, Washington. A singer-songwriter, he has produced an exceptional, heartfelt album. His first recording since the release of […]
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Andy Cohen, Eleanor Ellis and William Lee Ellis “Whistlin’ Past The Graveyard”

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Classy trio come together to pay homage to traditional American roots, blues and country. Andy Cohen, Eleanor Ellis and William Lee Ellis are all well-established roots, blues and folk artists in their own right who first […]

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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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Interview: Lady Nade on being involved in a Netflix drama, inspiration, identity and mental health in music

March 2, 2026 0
Runner-up in our readers’ poll for Best UK Artist in 2025, Lady Nade has steadily built a reputation as one of the most distinctive and emotionally resonant voices in UK roots music. Blending jazz, Americana, folk, […]
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Interview: Willie Nile keeps the light on for great American rock’n’roll

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I do a lot of my listening to music while out walking in the mornings, with or without a dog. The day after Willie Nile’s The Great American Light arrived in the mailbox, I popped the […]

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Ethan Hanna “Welcome to the Batlands” (Independent, 2018)

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From Northern Ireland, though musically via New Jersey and the gutters of many a wrong part of town, here we have the debut album from Ethan Hanna. With a voice that blends Springsteen and Waits, you […]
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What is it about rain?  For creatures that are 90% water we do seem to have a bit of a downer on water when it falls as droplets under gravity.  It’s often a metaphor for “things […]

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