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Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Stanford Hall, Leicestershire, Sunday 25th August 2024

September 11, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
Sunday didn’t bring quite the glorious sunshine hoped for on the final day of The Long Road 2024 but it was at least dry. First stop was Buddy’s to catch the first part of My Darling […]
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Stunning ‘From Where I Stand: The Online Experience’ now available worldwide

June 11, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
“Charlie Parker used to hang out in Charlie’s Tavern, a musicians’ bar in midtown New York. To the dismay of his acolytes, he liked to play country music on the jukebox. There was reluctance to question […]
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25th anniversary expanded reissue for “From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music”

May 7, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
The Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum in collaboration with Warner Music Nashville is releasing an expanded version of the box set ‘From Where I Stand: The Black Experience in Country Music’. Originally released in […]
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The Long Road Festival announces first acts for 2024

March 6, 2024 Richard Parkinson 0
Following 2023’s sell-out, The Long Road festival returns to the picturesque grounds of Stanford Hall in Leicestershire over the August bank holiday weekend this year from 23rd to 25th August.  The festival has a track record […]
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Live Review: The Long Road Festival, Lutterworth, Leics – 25th-27th August 2023

September 6, 2023 Richard Parkinson 0
The Long Road Festival took place over the August Bank Holiday weekend at Stanford Hall near Lutterworth on the border of Northamptonshire and Leicestershire.  In addition to the music on show the event also features a […]

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Deer Tick “ACI” – a place for porridge

May 7, 2026 0
And what, you may ask, is an ACI?  Adult Correctional Institutions – or, if you prefer, a prison.  On this latest release from Deer Tick’s new album Coin-O-Matic we find the band in Springsteen’s Nebraska or […]
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Video Premiere: Michael McDermott “The Best We Get” – only focus on what is in your control

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The new single from Chicago singer-songwriter Michael McDermott is a typically catchy song that immediately hooks you in with big chords and big choruses. Opening with bright, uplifting guitar, The Best We Get is a driving […]
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Florence Dore “Hold the Spark”

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An accessible and literate roots-rock gem. Renowned for her energetic and charismatic live persona (and also for being an award -winning English professor; yes, really), Florence Dore returns with the follow-up to 2022’s Highways and Rocketships. […]

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Interview: The Milk Carton Kids’ Joey Ryan discusses “Lost Cause Lover Fool”

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Joey Ryan and Kenneth Pattengale created their own take on sparse, acoustic indie folk when they formed the Milk Carton Kids in 2011 and found their own loyal audience. A lot can happen in fifteen years, […]
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Video Interview: Jim Lauderdale on releasing two new albums and supporting Emmylou Harris

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Jim Lauderdale must be doing something right because he keeps doing it. He has recently released two albums, Country Super Hits Volume 2 and The Birds Know with The Po’ Ramblin’ Boys, which maintain his phenomenal […]
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Interview: David Wilcox on the way he tells the stories

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David Wilcox makes records that are masterful in the way they prompt people to feel things deeply and heal themselves. To put it another way, his songs act as chicken soup for the soul. His music […]

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Hazlett “My Skin” – is she really going out with him?

August 4, 2022 0
Australian-born, but now a resident of Stockholm, Hazlett has produced a couple of EPs and is now releasing a series of singles on his new label Nettwerk – and ‘My Skin‘ is the third of these.  […]
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Video: Driftwood “What You Do To Me”

September 16, 2019 1
This is taken from folk-rock outfit Driftwood’s latest album ‘Tree Of Shade‘.  There are echoes of Paul Simon and the early Seventies in this lovely and quietly epic song.  Good video too.
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The Other Side Of Me: Alan Fitter on the genius of Stephen Sondheim

February 15, 2022 0
AUK continues its series looking at the musical tastes of AUK writers beyond the americana genre. Two nights last week summed up ‘The Other Side Of Me’. On the Friday it was the turn of the […]

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