May 2018 – Page 12 – Americana UK

I See Hawks in L.A. “Live and Never Learn” (Blue Rose, 2018)

May 18, 2018 Peter Churchill 0

How many bands have suffered the “sounds like the Eagles” curse? Even if being mentioned in the same breath surely means they must be onto something good, attempting to match the songwriting and vocal skills of […]

Pick of the Political Pops: John Lee Hooker “I Need Some Money”

May 18, 2018 Paul Villers 0

Our attention was drawn this week to the annual festival of gloating in which a national ‘news’ paper rubs the rest of our noses in the dirt by telling us who has the most money in […]

Video: Passenger “Hell or High Water”

May 18, 2018 Mark Whitfield 2

We keep telling anyone who’ll listen that Passenger, aka Brighton’s Mike Rosenberg, is one of the finest contemporary songwriters around and today he’s today released new single ‘Hell Or High Water’ which is in a word fantastico. […]

Birds of Chicago, Stables Stage 2, Wavendon, 15th May 2018

May 18, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

The road works and long diversions conspiracy almost robbed us of the chance, but in the end tickets were grabbed from the ticket office, and a rapid relocation to Stage 2 enabled entry just as Birds […]

Mt. Joy “Silver Lining” – Listen

May 18, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Coming out of that strain of folk-rock that revels in epic sounds and vocals that soar to the heights, Mt. Joy deliver a mighty powerful punch on ‘Silver Lining’, which is taken from their debut album […]