August 2018 – Page 21

Rayland Baxter “Wide Awake” (ATO Records, 2018)

August 6, 2018 MD Spenser 0

This album is wonderful musically, if somewhat inscrutable lyrically – at least initially. To write these 10 songs, Baxter set himself up alone in an abandoned rubber band factory in Kentucky, covered the windows, slept on […]

Album premiere: Owlbiter “Stud Farm”

August 6, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

‘Stud Farm’ might sound like some gay muscle porn flick but it’s also the new album from Brooklyn indie-folk project Owlbiter aka Matt Cascella which Americana UK is delighted to premiere this morning. Influenced by artists […]

JP Harris “When I Quit Drinking” – Listen

August 6, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

As mainstream country continues to becomes hollow and glitzy pop music about trucks and beers and dogs and girls (or boys) then this lead single from JP Harris’ new album ‘Sometimes dogs bark at nothing‘ is […]

Ethan Johns and The Black Eyed Dogs, Servant Jazz Quarters, London, 30th July 2018

August 6, 2018 Mark Underwood 0

“I hate name droppers,” Ethan Johns announces early in his set before recounting a session in which he got to record with some of the most famous names in rock music. It’s a conceit for which […]

Video: Kim Richey “Chase Wild Horses”

August 6, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This is the superlative kim Richey with a live version of Chase Wild Horses from her excellent new album Edgeland.

Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

August 7, 2026 0

Well that’s it from us for this week. If you’re an AUK supporter your new playlist will be with you at 5pm. We leave you dear reader with a new song from Nate Amos aka This […]

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

August 7, 2026 0

At once nostalgic travelogue, introspective head-trip, and rootsy showcase, Madrid-born Juana Everett’s second album should be her breakthrough record. Past Lives in California swims headfirst through the murky waters of transit, both literal and metaphysical. Bring […]

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

August 7, 2026 0

A powerful message that’s relayed with the kind of vigour and skill needed to make people sit up and listen. “In his oval room, in his rockin’ chair / He’s the president, but I don’t care […]

Month: August 2018

Rayland Baxter “Wide Awake” (ATO Records, 2018)

Album premiere: Owlbiter “Stud Farm”

JP Harris “When I Quit Drinking” – Listen

Ethan Johns and The Black Eyed Dogs, Servant Jazz Quarters, London, 30th July 2018

Video: Kim Richey “Chase Wild Horses”

Something not really americana for the weekend: This is Lorelei “Oh No Now My”

Interview: Juana Everett is setting herself free

Margo Price “Days of Unrest”

Classic Clips: The Mavericks “Born To Be Blue” – Live at American Songwriter Studios, 2012

The Wild High “Listen to The Wild High”