2016 – Page 35 – Americana UK

Sarah MacDougall and Ben Kunder Announce UK Tour Dates

November 4, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

Canada-based, Swedish-born singer-songwriter Sarah MacDougall arrives in the UK in a couple of weeks with part-time carpenter and sometime actor, Canadian singer-songwriter Ben Kunder for a series of dates. Garnering increasingly international acclaim, MacDougall, a Western Canadian […]

Modern Studies “Swell To Great” (Song, By Toad Records, 2016)

November 4, 2016 David Cowling 0

The sea surges and froths throughout these songs. They have all of the delicate beauty of an early morning coastal mist, they drift and coalesce or coalesce then drift. Like tidal surges, the asthmatic wheeze of […]

Dixie Chick Natalie Maines Responds to CMA Performance Criticism

November 4, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

And they will be hating the pages and pages of publicity from this. Billboard reports: “The Dixie Chicks’ Natalie Maines is responding to the online controversy surrounding the band’s performance with Beyonce at the CMA Awards […]

Dirty Dozen: Rob Richings

November 4, 2016 Rudie Hayes 0

If second chances are for the lucky, singer-songwriter Rob Richings is one of the luckiest. Diagnosed in 2009 with what proved to be a near-fatal illness, once he beat it Richings decided enough was enough and […]

Paul Goodwin “The Northern Lights In The Neon Tube” (Independent, 2016)

November 4, 2016 Paul Kerr 0

Four years in the making but The Northern Lights In The Neon Tube is not the result of endless hours spent tinkering in the studio, budgets be blasted. Instead the gap is explained by Cambridge musician […]