March 2018 – Page 30 – Americana UK

Jane Allison “Methylene Blue” (Horus Music Limited 2017)

March 1, 2018 Jim Finnie 0

Just occasionally, an album comes along where almost from the first note the music just reaches out, wraps itself around you and reaches deep into your very soul. With her second album, Methylene Blue, Aberystwyth born […]

Rich Hall’s Hoedown, Cambridge Corn Exchange, 27th February 2018

March 1, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Now in its second year the City Roots Festival continues along a path already taken by its elder sibling the Cambridge Folk Festival in that it takes a fairly broad definition of what represents Roots. And […]

Ivan Moult “Lay Me Down” – Listen

March 1, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

When Winston Churchill felt the heavy hand of depression falling on him he would bestir himself and build a wall – bricklaying was his distraction. And whiskey in copious amounts. Ivan Moult has a different cure […]

Folk heroes Alvin and Gilmore unite for new album – June

March 1, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Friends for over three decades, it took Dave Alvin, the founder of seminal punk roots band Alvin and the Chipmunks The Blasters, and Jimmie Dale Gilmore, of the pioneering country-folk trio The Flatlanders, until last year to collaborate […]

Nathaniel Bellows “Swan and Wolf” (Independent 2018)

March 1, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 1

Polymath Bellows has released an album and accompanying art work designed to give the listener a whole artistic experience. This reviewer is fairly unimpressed. In order to arrest the attention of an audience, an artist needs […]