2017 – Page 47 – Americana UK

Slaid Cleaves, Hitchin Folk Club, Hitchin, 8th October 2017

November 6, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

A welcome return of the American troubadour to the Hitchin Folk Club for the last night of his UK tour – although he still had several weeks in Europe and the USA to go before he […]

Video: Blitzen Trapper “Wild And Reckless”

November 6, 2017 Jeremy Searle 0

We put up the audio for this, the wonderful title track from the new album (out now) from the equally wonderful Blitzen Trapper, and now there’s a great (if a little disturbing) video to go with […]

Chris Hillman “Bidin’ My Time” (Rounder Records, 2017)

November 3, 2017 Jonathan Aird 0

Chris Hillman, the bluegrass mandolinist turned electric bass player, was a significant player in several seminal bands of the sixties and seventies. None more important than The Byrds, but Manassas ran them a close second. His […]

Neil Young announces new album and “already great” single – Listen

November 3, 2017 Mark Whitfield 2

We’ll be the judge of that. Lol, as the kids say. Pitchfork reports: “Neil Young has once again teamed up with his backing band the Promise of the Real (which features Willie Nelson’s son Lukas). Their new […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Martha Wainwright “Bloody Mother”

November 3, 2017 Paul Villers 0

Insulated as we are deep in the bunker of Americana-UK Towers from the worst effects of modern life we can’t help but be deeply troubled about the reports reaching us of abuse. Abuse, it seems, that […]