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 […]

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

August 7, 2026 0

A powerful message that’s relayed with the kind of vigour and skill needed to make people sit up and listen. “In his oval room, in his rockin’ chair / He’s the president, but I don’t care […]

Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012

August 7, 2026 0

Of all the recent musicians we have sadly lost in recent times, the tragic news of the passing of Raul Malo last year was one of the most gut-wrenching for me. He was only 60 years […]

The Wild High “Listen to The Wild High”

August 7, 2026 1

Southern rock debut for Canadian five-piece. Hailing from Ontario, Canada, The Wild High are a five-piece built around singer-songwriter Jon Harvey (formerly of the band Monster Truck). Harvey describes the band as “a chosen family of […]

Year: 2016