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The latest AUK Podcast now live featuring not one but two interviews!

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No bad luck here as Keith talks to Twang Factor winner Maggie May Treanor and Curation Records’ Sunday Mourners. Another double header this week and it’s two ends of the spectrum as we talk to Maggie […]

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The latest AUK Podcast now live featuring not one but two interviews!

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  • The latest AUK Podcast now live featuring not one but two interviews!
  • Track Premiere: Eric Brandt “Size Of Diamonds”
  • Video Premiere: Zoe FitzGerald Carter “Lying Voices” – the consequences of all that endless lying
  • Top Ten Americana Songs Of All Time: Keith Hargreaves
  • Toad the Wet Sprocket “RINGS: The Acoustic Sessions”
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Interview: Jim White on Trey Blake and the backstory of “Precious Bane”

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If you’ve heard anything about Jim White, you’ve probably heard about the surfing, the modeling, the cab driving, and the unlikely way David Byrne changed his life with a record deal. You’ve heard about the junk […]

Behind the Songs

Interview: Tess Liautaud on the New Zealand roots scene and the songs from Blue Mind

February 10, 2026 0

From the first, rhythmically strummed notes of Blue Mind, Tess Liautaud, the Ōtautahi-based Franco-American singer-songwriter who has immersed herself among the characters on the New Zealand roots music scene, creates a lush, twangy, rock and country-soul […]

Interviews

Interview: Jonathan Bernstein on Justin Townes Earle, addiction, and the music that remains

February 9, 2026 0

Jonathan Bernstein did not set out to sanctify Justin Townes Earle, nor to reduce him to a cautionary tale. With What Do You Do When You’re Lonesome, Bernstein instead accomplishes something far more difficult: he restores dimensionality […]

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This week’s podcast has Keith chatting to North Yorks Moors chanteuse and guitar slinger Elaine Palmer. They discuss the new material and Elaine’s route into the world of Americana and music. There are also tracks from […]

Album Reviews

Harrow Fair “Sins We Made” (Roaring Girl Records, 2020)

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Three years on from their fine debut, Harrow Fair – Miranda Mulholland and Andrew Penner – return with a second serving of their darkly thumping amalgam of folk and rock – and thudding almost Glam Rock […]

Live Reviews

The Travelling Band + Elle Mary & The Bad Men, Water Rats, London, 10th August 2017

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An otherwise quiet Thursday night in King’s Cross for the Travelling Band’s album launch. First up though is Elle Mary and the Bad Men. Elle was born in Wales but is  now based in Manchester, something […]

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