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Features

Billboard: Americana in the UK is a thing

October 20, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0
Oh well, this will wreck our Google search result listings – what possessed them to use the terms “americana” and “UK” in the same headline?  Billboard has an article today entitled “U.K. Americana Hits America, and Vice […]
Live Reviews

Kilkenny Roots Festival, 28th April – 1st May 2017, Kilkenny, Ireland

June 6, 2017 Paul Kerr 0
This was the second time your intrepid reporter has attended the annual celebration of all things good in Roots and Americana music that’s held in the beautiful city of Kilkenny in Ireland and now that it’s […]

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Frank Migliorelli & The Dirt Nappers “Abnormal Condition”

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For The Sake Of The Song : The Volares “Down To The Lane”

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Brennan Leigh, live at St. Mary's Creative Space, Chester - 32d July 2026

Live Review: Brennen Leigh + Jackson Ward, St. Mary’s Creative Space, Chester – 3rd July 2026

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John R. Miller “The Great Unknowing”

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Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Michael Rudd

July 20, 2026 0
Hailing from New Mexico, roots rock singer/songwriter Michael Rudd has been around for almost four decades since he put a bag of clothes, a manual typewriter, a few notebooks and a guitar in his two-door Datsun […]
Album Reviews

Frank Migliorelli & The Dirt Nappers “Abnormal Condition”

July 20, 2026 0
Raw, intense, varied Americana with a great ‘live’ feel. Abnormal Conditions’ is the fifth album by upstate New York roots rockers Frank Migliorelli and the Dirt Nappers, and it is an absolute corker. It blends rock, […]
Features

For The Sake Of The Song : The Volares “Down To The Lane”

July 20, 2026 0
There are some songs that just hit the spot. Songs that one instantly adores and that have an almost profound effect on you and that you keep coming back to year after year. It’s been nearly […]

  • Exclusive AUK Mini-Gig: Michael Rudd
  • Frank Migliorelli & The Dirt Nappers “Abnormal Condition”
  • For The Sake Of The Song : The Volares “Down To The Lane”
  • Live Review: Brennen Leigh + Jackson Ward, St. Mary’s Creative Space, Chester – 3rd July 2026
  • John R. Miller “The Great Unknowing”
  • Sounds from beyond the Shed 237 “I’m going down to Liverpool…”
  • Charlotte Morris “Make America” – so, this word great…
  • Video: Beck “Ride Lonesome” feat. Sierra Ferrell – you can’t put your arms ’round a memory
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Interview: What Taylor Bickett is shooting for

July 16, 2026 0
Nothing I Can’t Undo is such a deeply earnest, empathetic and personal album that captures exactly what a solo debut is supposed to be by introducing us, in full, to Taylor Bickett, a 20-something singer/songwriter from […]
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Interview: Arcade Fire’s Richard Reed Parry celebrates The Sadies’ Dallas Good and Watchtowers

July 13, 2026 0
Canada has continued to punch above its weight musically since the days of Neil Young, Joni Mitchell, and the Canuck members of The Band first rose to international prominence in the ’60s, and The Sadies, with […]
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Interview: Hank Alrich and his sonic explorations

July 7, 2026 1
Like the old sailors of yore, Hank Alrich sure knows how to spin a yarn, though I doubt his are made up or heavily stretched. They keep your attention. I would contentedly sit in an armchair […]

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Gillian Welch to release new volume of “lost recordings” – Listen

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Gillian Welch has confirmed the digital release of ‘Boots No.2: The Lost Songs, Vol.1’ which will come out at the end of this month via Acony Records, the independent record label she and partner David Rawlings […]
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Foy Vance – Laughing at ‘The Joy of Nothing’ with Belfast and London dates

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Emmy Award-winning songwriter Foy Vance will embark on the  ‘You & I UK Tour’ next week. Named after a track from Vance’s breakthrough 2013 album “Joy Of Nothing”, the tour includes residencies in Belfast Opera House […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Frank Turner “A Wave Across a Bay”

January 29, 2024 0
At its best, music has the power to convey the deepest feelings, to transmit them from the artist into your own soul, to move you in unexpected ways.  ‘A Wave Across a Bay’ by Frank Turner […]

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