2017 – Page 316 – Americana UK

Alison Krauss announces first new solo record in 17 years – Listen to first single

January 6, 2017 Mark Whitfield 0

Alison Krauss will release her first solo album in 17 years this year (imagine what you were doing back in 2000 – taking it easy after the millennium bug’s non appearance probably). “Windy City” is out […]

David Crosby “Lighthouse” (Verve, 2016)

January 6, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

David Crosby’s new release is only his 5th solo album, a number that would no doubt be higher if it were not for the intervening CSN, CSN&Y, and Crosby-Nash albums that have appeared over the last […]

Various Guises “Tide Take Him” (Independent, 2016)

January 6, 2017 Keith Hargreaves 0

Various Guises are modern folkies – a duo featuring Blanche Ellis and Maya McCourt. ‘Tide Take Him Out’ is their debut EP. A short glimpse into a world of gothic flecked acapella suffused with sparse instrumentation. […]

Jessica Rhayne “Song in Me” (Self Released, 2016)

January 6, 2017 Rudie Hayes 0

You’d swear it was going to be Joni Mitchel from the opening bars, its achingly beautiful mid-tempo lament, with a china gong flourish landing like tears dropping in to a quickly emptying whisky glass – you […]

AJ Hobbs “Too Much Is Never Enough” (Independent, 2017)

January 6, 2017 Maurice Hope 0

Too Much Is Never Enough may be California-born and raised singer-songwriter AJ Hobbs’ debut full-length album but he also has two EPs to his name. His first Shit Just Got Real was released under the pseudonym […]