2016 – Page 73 – Americana UK

Jinnwoo “Strangers Bring Me No Light” (GFM Records, 2016)

September 14, 2016 David Cowling 0

Jinnwoo (Ben Webb) dabbles in the kind of outsider folk that at one time would have been snared by the anti-folk brigade; it’s a mix of Lou Barlow (in Sebadoh and Sentridoh low-fi obscured by the […]

Jason Isbell Collaborates with Amanda Shires

September 13, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

And you can have a listen. Rolling Stone Country reports: “One year after popping up in the end credits of British documentary The Fear of 13, Jason Isbell and Amanda Shires’ “The Color of a Cloudy […]

Video clip: Passenger “Anywhere”

September 13, 2016 Mark Whitfield 0

First video to be released from the new album “Young as the Morning Old as the Sea” out a week Friday.

Johnny Dowd “Execute American Folklore” (Mother Jinx Records, 2016)

September 12, 2016 Paul Kerr 2

By now you either get or don’t get Johnny Dowd. Ten albums in this Ithaca NY resident continues to move further into the outfield with each release. Execute American Folklore features Dowd’s darkly humorous and idiosyncratic […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

September 21, 2026 2

If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

Ad for American Beauty album 5th December 1970

For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”