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Live Review: Folk In The Park, Manor Park, Sutton – 16th August 2025

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Sedentary performers were prominent at Folk In The Park. Richard Thompson had fallen down some stairs, while Tom Robinson was suffering from a more prosaic hernia. Poor Eddi Reader, meanwhile, had fallen ill but… The Show […]
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Dirty Dozen: Rodney Branigan

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Rodney Branigan has become known worldwide for his unique ability to play two guitars at once. While quite a spectacle in itself, the meat and potatoes of Rodney’s music is his ability to pen emotive lyrics […]

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Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”

Album Reviews
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Stephen Wilson Jr

Stephen Wilson Jr announces UK and European tour dates for autumn 2026

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Danny George Wilson

Latest AUK Podcast now available – Danny George Wilson talks about new album “Arcade”

News
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Andy Hedges “Eight Bucks & Change” – counting up a life’s achievements

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Video Premiere: Cuchulain “It’s Always Something”

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artwork for Jim Lauderdale's album Country Super Hits Volume 2
Album Reviews

Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”

March 20, 2026 0
Lauderdale releases a worthy, heartfelt follow-up twenty years later. At the age of sixty-eight, Jim Lauderdale is in top form, his voice as good as ever. The iconic songwriter, now a Nashville Songwriters Hall of Fame […]
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News

Stephen Wilson Jr announces UK and European tour dates for autumn 2026

March 20, 2026 0
Stephen Wilson Jr. has released the latest dates for his Gary The Torch Tour, which, in addition to shows in the US West Coast and Southeast, include a series of UK and European  dates.  The tour […]
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Latest AUK Podcast now available – Danny George Wilson talks about new album “Arcade”

March 20, 2026 0
This week’s podcast features a smashing chat with Danny George Wilson on the day of the release of his album Arcade, as well as new songs from Book of Churches, Logan Staats, plus Butler, Blake and […]

  • Jim Lauderdale “Country Super Hits Volume 2”
  • Stephen Wilson Jr announces UK and European tour dates for autumn 2026
  • Latest AUK Podcast now available – Danny George Wilson talks about new album “Arcade”
  • Andy Hedges “Eight Bucks & Change” – counting up a life’s achievements
  • Video Premiere: Cuchulain “It’s Always Something”
  • The Top 10 Americana Songs of All Time: Andy Davidson
  • Live Review: Charm Of Finches, Stables 2, Wavendon – 28th February 2026
  • Book Review: Peter Wolf “Waiting on the Moon: Artists, Poets, Drifters, Grifters, and Goddesses”
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Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0
Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]
Interviews

Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 0
While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]
Interviews

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

March 4, 2026 2
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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Chris Blevins “Better Than Alone” (Horton Records, 2017)

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Chris Blevins’ music is like a breath of fresh air; his narrative and full-bodied sound and way he removes the veneer to get to the source sets him apart from the field. Americana music has many […]
Videos

Video: Beans on Toast “England, I Love You”

November 11, 2019 0
A bonus and beautifully animated video for you today which was released on October 31st, the day we were meant to be leaving the EU (version 2). ‘England, I Love You’ sees Beans cast us back […]
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Nathaniel Bellows “Well Water”

March 3, 2023 0
On this recent single from Nathaniel Bellows the deepest vocalled singer in New York is joined by Shara Nova of My Brightest Diamond who provides the highest floating vocal contrast possible.  ‘One Small Thing‘ questions if […]

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