2017 – Page 184 – Americana UK

Todd Adelman & The Country Mile “Time will tell” (Porch Lantern Music, 2016)

June 9, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

On his sixth studio album country-roots rocker Todd Adelman has a preoccupation with the passage of time, ageing and the myriad changes in his homelands. These missives from rural America are set to a traditional country-rock […]

Video: The Holy Innocents “Tough Luck”

June 9, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

A fun video and a rollicking song from the Belfast-based Holy Innocents.

Roger Waters “Is This The Life We Really Want?”

June 8, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 1

If you are a Water’s fan – be it ‘Amused to Death’ or ‘Pros and Cons’ or a Floyd fan particularly of ‘Animals’ or ‘The Wall’ then you are going to really enjoy the musical tropes […]

Fleet Foxes “If You Need To, Keep Time on Me” – Listen

June 8, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Consequence of Sound are this morning carrying a new song by our favourite furry friends the Fleet Foxes. They report: “Fleet Foxes will return with Crack-Up, their first album in six years, next week. Frontman Robin […]

Yola Carter “It Ain’t Easier” (Demo) – Listen

June 8, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Yola Carter has released a demo from her forthcoming album called ‘It Ain’t Easier’. In her own words: “Here’s a demo of the song ‘It Ain’t Easier’ from my new album. As I get closer to […]

Americana Stories – Simon Lamont “Americana”

July 3, 2026 0

Simon Lamont’s contribution to our americana stories is called Americana. And it covers one of our core topics, what is americana, and why isn’t it country? Simon Lamont is an Irish writer and designer (graphic/web/garden) who […]

Classic Clips: Joni Mitchell “Coyote”, Gordon Lightfoot’s home, 1975

July 3, 2026 1

No doubt some really clued up expert on the Rolling Thunder Revue can pinpoint the actual evening that this clip comes from, but enough to say that it is footage captured whilst Joni Mitchell was on […]

Cover art for Fruit Bats album The Landfill

Fruit Bats “The Landfill”

July 3, 2026 0

After a gap of a mere nine months, Eric D. Johnson returns with a new Fruit Bats offering – the americana world should rejoice. We really need to get something out of the way immediately. The […]

Year: 2017