May 2018 – Page 21 – Americana UK

Track Premiere : Chuck Westmorland “Long Winter Rodeo”

May 11, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Americana UK is pleased to have the chance to premiere this new song from Portland based troubadour Chuck Westmorland. ‘Long Winter Rodeo’ is the lead single from the album of the same name that is due […]

Video: Richard Thompson “Beeswing”

May 11, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This week’s retro slot includes a rare sighting of the top of Richard Thompson’s head. The winner of the UK Americana Association Lifetime Achievement Award in 2017 here plays a stunning live version of one of […]

Chris Ronald “Fragments” (Borealis Records, 2018)

May 10, 2018 MD Spenser 0

This lovely album on the folk side of Americana is a keeper. It’s based on Ronald’s clear-voiced singing and moving songwriting, augmented by fingerpicked guitar, fiddle, harmonica and the occasional banjo, mandolin and drums. Ronald is […]

Thomas Fraser “Long Gone Lonesome Blues” (Saetr Records, 2018)

May 10, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

You really couldn’t make up a story like this. A Scots fisherman, Thomas Fraser, living on the Shetland Isles, born in 1927, fell in love with country blues and Jimmie Rogers in particular. A proficient musician, […]

Ashley Monroe “Wild Love” – Listen

May 10, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Ashley Monroe has said of her new album ‘Sparrow’ (out now on Warner Music Nashville) that “Country music is a wide genre, and that’s OK, I don’t even know what genre this record is, but I […]