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Trampled By Turtles + Ferris & Sylvester, London Electric Ballroom, Friday 16th November

November 20, 2018 Ben Willmott 0

Minnesota-based six piece Trampled By Turtles may be best known in the US, but their quirky take on bluegrass is spreading further afield, and spreading fast. At least, they’ve filled the not inconsiderable space of […]

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Trampled by Turtles “The Middle” – Listen

March 22, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

The creative bluegrass band named after what would probably be quite a traumatic experience reunited in a Minnesota cabin only a few months back but they’ve already laid down enough tracks for a new studio […]

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Trampled by Turtles back with new album, single – Listen

February 21, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

If I have to go by unnatural causes, being trampled by turtles would be in my top 3 ways to die, particulalry if they were playing bluegrass this good. Minnesota six-piece Trampled By Turtles have announced a […]

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Clean-cut pop ditties laced with deftly produced, occasionally mawkish Americana. Memorably insipid. When the co-founder and primary songwriter of a band as famous as INXS makes an Americana album, it’s fairly predictable that even mainstream […]

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Francesca Brown “Live From Quarantine EP”

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EP highlights Brown’s polished vocals, while staying within the well-worn safety of a simple pop-country vein. California based singer-songwriter Francesca Brown’s latest offering is a six-song EP, ‘Live From the Quarantine’. As the name implies […]

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Aerial East “Try Harder”

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Strange yet familiar, dreamlike yet tangible; a beautiful and intimate record.  Aerial East’s ‘Try Harder‘ is a coming of age record about what it means to be a woman in America. At once strange and […]

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Something for the weekend: Rosanne Cash “The Killing Fields”

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That’s us again for this week dear reader. We leave you with a new powerful song from Rosanne Cash in which she tackles the US’s dark history of lynchings, called ‘The Killing Fields.’ “A few years […]

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We music-lovers have missed live shows over the last year.  However, one of the genuine highlights of recent months has been the explosion in online gigs and the way that artists and promoters have increasingly […]

AUK’s top 10 americana albums ever: Here are the results of the readers’ vote

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Firstly a big thank you to our readers who voted in their droves. We really do appreciate your participation and love the brilliant list that your collective thoughts have generated. There were only six common […]

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Clean-cut pop ditties laced with deftly produced, occasionally mawkish Americana. Memorably insipid. When the co-founder and primary songwriter of a band as famous as INXS makes an Americana album, it’s fairly predictable that even mainstream […]

Book Review: Robert Shelton “Bob Dylan: No Direction Home”

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A new re-issue of the classic Dylan biography as he nears his 80th birthday. Never judge a book by its cover – but in this case that is going to be the first thing that […]

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