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AUK’s Monthly EP Round-Up – May 2025

May 27, 2025 Graeme Tait 3
Firstly, may I start by thanking my esteemed colleague Fred Arnold for picking up the baton and doing such a sterling job with last month’s EP Round-Up while I took a much-needed holiday. Now with my […]
Live Reviews

Live Review: UK Americana Music Week – AMAUK UK Showcases, Hackney Venues, 21st January 2025

February 13, 2025 Jonathan Aird 1
The music showcases on the Tuesday and Wednesday evenings of the AMAUK’s annual conference are a really fine way to get going on gig attending after the inevitable Yuletide lull.  Taking advantage of the high density […]
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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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More People Really Should Know About: Simeon Hammond Dallas

September 10, 2024 Richard Parkinson 1
No one could ever accuse Simeon Hammond Dallas of slacking.  Over the past 12 months she has been playing with anyone and everyone with a showcase spot at AmericanaFest at the National Museum of African American […]
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Live Review: Wood Festival, Braziers Park, South Oxfordshire – 19th to 21st May 2023

May 30, 2023 Darren Lumbroso 0
The Wood Festival is a relatively small, family friendly affair organised by brothers Joe and Robin Bennett. It’s held in the grounds of Braziers Park, a gothic mansion nestling in the hills of South Oxfordshire, which […]

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Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]
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Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

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Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]
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For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

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Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

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

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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 […]
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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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Video Interview: Chip Taylor on “The Truth and Other Things”

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How the legendary King Records took a chance on a young New York-based country songwriter. While he may be the brother of Jon Voight and the uncle of Angelina Jolie, Chip Taylor has managed to carve […]
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The Federales “Cardboard Cocaine” – addictive simple gambling…

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Benjamin Miller of The Federales says of ‘Cardboard Cocaine’ that “I was hanging out with a buddy of mine from high school, and he mentioned that he and his wife were going to the bar every […]
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Clint’s Classic Clips: The Long Ryders “Lights of Downtown” – The Old Grey Whistle Test, 1985

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The Long Ryders win by a short nose in close race to the finishing post – makes no sense? Read on. This is the last in the series ‘Clint’s Classic Clips’ – but fear not, your […]

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