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Album Reviews

Stephen Jacques “Les Surfeurs De Santa Cruz”

August 12, 2026 David Jarman 0
Lyrically and musically evocative surf-themed album from Virginia-based Stephen Jacques. Stephen Jacques’s last release, Pioneers and Fragrant Flowers, was favourably reviewed on these pages last year, our reviewer Fred Arnold praising its dazzling lyrical imagery around […]
Album Reviews

Stephen Jacques “Pioneers and Fragrant Flowers”

August 11, 2025 FredArnold 0
A musical history lesson from an expressive and worldly songwriter. Stephen Jacques is an alt-rock musician, guitarist and chronicler of stories in song. He hails originally from New Orleans and New York but now lives in […]
Tracks

Track Premiere: Stephen Jacques “Fragrant Flowers”

July 23, 2025 Jonathan Aird 0
‘Fragrant Flowers‘ is the opening cut of Stephen Jacques’ latest album “Pioneers and Fragrant Flowers”, which is a concept album about covering the 19th-century Western migration, frontier wagon train plight, gunfights, saloons, Native American reality, miscreants, […]
Videos

Video Premiere: Stephen Jacques “Symphony of Freaks”

September 20, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0
Check out the new single from alt-rocker Stephen Jacques.  ‘Symphony of Freaks’ is an an absorbing, upbeat song, featuring rolling drums, warm bass  and a rhythmic strum.  Over these sonic layers, twanging lead guitar and flowing […]
Tracks

Stephen Jacques “Send Them Love” – it’s what everyone wants

May 30, 2022 Jonathan Aird 0
Stephen Jacques is a self-confessed night owl, who, growing up in Richmond, Virginia,  took in all the rock he could find whether it be via TV shows like Johnny Carson and  Saturday Night Live or through […]

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Gin Wigmore “Beautiful Mess”

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The latest AUK Podcast is now available featuring Laura Veirs

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Kaz Murphy “Iowa Ohio Arizona” – swinging places for swinging people

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Video: Ned Collette “Commandeered Parade” – new horror from old books on the shelf

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Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

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Album Reviews

Gin Wigmore “Beautiful Mess”

August 14, 2026 0
New Zealand singer-songwriter returns after an 8-year hiatus with an album of two parts. Gin Wigmore is something of a star in her homeland of New Zealand, although she has spent 13 of the last 15 […]
News

The latest AUK Podcast is now available featuring Laura Veirs

August 14, 2026 0
A fabulous chat with Laura Veirs is the centrepiece of this week’s podcast on the day of the release of her latest album, Temple Songs. Laura chats from her studio in Portland about the album, its […]
Tracks

Kaz Murphy “Iowa Ohio Arizona” – swinging places for swinging people

August 14, 2026 0
Kaz Murphy loves a challenge, so when he was asked to be nice to states that seem to have turned not nice (or, as the modern speak has it, “where only not good happens bigly” he […]

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  • Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard
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Interviews

Interview: Waylon Payne on the ‘family’ business and pulling Willie Nelson’s beard

August 13, 2026 0
Americana UK’s Ian Rothery caught up with Waylon Payne via Zoom at his home in Nashville on one of the few days of the year when it might actually have been hotter in the UK than […]
Interviews

Interview: The Roseline play sweet music but you must accept the thorns

August 12, 2026 1
It’s no secret that americana music in all its colorful variations has been prevalent and in vogue for years now as countless bands and singer/songwriters from the last two decades have found success filtering their music […]
Interviews

Interview: Frank Turner reflects on 20 years of Campfire Punkrock

August 11, 2026 0
Remarkably, it is twenty years since Frank Turner released his first solo EP: Campfire Punkrock. The very title was both a statement of intent and a conscious identifier, defining his sound and the purpose of his […]

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Miss Tess “True Flood” – Listen

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Miss Tess was in the UK last year supporting JP Harris, so it shouldn’t be too surprising to discover that today’s song is a country rock’n’roller with a crisp jazzy piano accompaniment, a steady beat and […]
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Album Reviews

Woody Guthrie “Woody At Home- Vol 1+2”

September 26, 2025 1
These home recordings of previously unreleased songs, including some previously not recorded, are a great historical document. The story of this album starts when Woody Guthrie got his first publishing deal in 1950 with Howie Richmond’s […]
Videos

Video: Jake Swamp and The Pine “Drive, Drive, Drive”

December 13, 2022 0
‘Drive, Drive, Drive’ is the latest single from Jake Swamp and The Pine, led by guitarist, singer and songwriter Drew Zieff.  The accompanying video sees Zieff playing as the sun sets, while also taking us a […]

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