June 2018 – Page 22 – Americana UK

The Small Glories, The Green Note, London, 31st May 2018

June 5, 2018 David Allen 0

Whilst it may feel like an extension of your own living room, an instantly familiar and cosy space, the unassuming exterior of The Green Note music venue belies its ability to attract the very best acoustic […]

The Mallett Brothers Band “Vive L’Acadie!” (Acadia Recording, 2018)

June 5, 2018 Linda Jameson 0

Can you ever have too much whiskey? Well, probably, but not if you are in The Mallett Brothers Band. The tracks on ‘Vive L’Acadie!’ are steeped in it. For a band from Maine, it’s just as […]

Tim Carr “Take Me There” – Listen

June 5, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

The thing about being a jazz drummer is that it pretty much ensures that there’ll be more interesting rhythm’s to one’s music. Which explains some of Tim Carr’s lead track from his upcoming EP ‘Swing & […]

Bennett, Wilson, Poole, St Barnabus Church, Oxford, 31st May 2018

June 5, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

What a night. Torrential rain. Flooding in and out of the venue. A support act using the Oedipal curse repeatedly during the final song of their set despite being in a very beautiful house dedicated to […]

Giant Sand return to their Valley of Rain

June 5, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

35 years after releasing their debut album, ‘Valley of Rain’, Howe Gelb and his Tucson based tearaways Giant Sand have only gone and re recorded the whole shebang and following on a clutch of shows in […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

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If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

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A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”