2017 – Page 277 – Americana UK

Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy releases new song on benefit EP – Listen

February 23, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

A new album would be quite nice, but in the meantime Pitchfork reports on our favourite prince since Caspian: “Bonnie “Prince” Billy has shared a new song called “Treasure Maps.” It appears on a new four-song compilation where […]

Video: Drew Holcomb and the Neighbors” Wild World”

February 23, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

From his new album, Souvenir, due out on April 21st, this is a fine, topical and thoughtful song from Mr Holcomb.

Dirty Dozen: Tall Heights

February 22, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0

Getting there is half the fun, as the old saying goes, but the journey is really the whole point for Boston progressive-folk duo Tall Heights. Singer/guitarist Tim Harrington and singer/cellist Paul Wright know where they’ve been, […]

Shirley Collins, The Barbican, London, 18th February 2017

February 22, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Shirley Collins holds a unique place in the pantheon of English folk music – her 1959 song collecting journey in the USA, assisting Alan Lomax, is legendary enough but she also shook up the folk scene […]

Rolling Stone interviews Jay Farrar on new Son Volt record

February 22, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Good interview here which muses what Woody Guthrie would think about world events unfurling today. Rolling Stone Country reports: “”The title is obviously a nod to the blues, which ended up becoming the framework of this entire […]