2018 – Page 137 – Americana UK

Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real + The Americans, The Garage, London, 10th July 2018

July 18, 2018 David Fox 0

The Garage at Highbury Corner is one of those large black sheds which holds around 600 people and it was sold out on Tuesday night for Lukas Nelson’s first big headlining gig in the UK. Already […]

Album premiere: Simon Patrick Kerr “Doldrums”

July 18, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

‘Doldrums’ is the new album by Simon Patrick Kerr, and it aptly couldn’t come at a better time what with the absolute state of parliament this week – for the new record Kerr forgoes the rowdy psych-rock […]

Bert Jansch restrospective for October release

July 18, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

Bert Jansch, the dazzling folk guitarist who picked up Davey Graham’s torch and ran with it. The Pentangler, the creator of themed instrumental albums, one half of ‘Bert and John‘, the surprising seventies electric guitar singer-songwriter […]

Jim James “Uniform Distortion” (ATO, 2018)

July 18, 2018 Mike Elliott 0

“Here I stand / goin’ through the motions with the mic in my hand,” so begins the lead-off track, ‘Just a Fool’ from the new aptly-titled Jim James album, ‘Uniform Distortion.’ Like many these days, James […]

Video: Frontperson “Tick-Tock (Frontrunner)”

July 18, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This is the new single from Kathryn Calder (The New Pornographers) and Mark Andrew Hamilton (Woodpigeon) aka Frontperson. It’s quite lovely and has an equally lovely video too. Their eponymous debut album is out on September 21st.

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

July 2, 2026 0

It is sometimes forgotten that Gram Parsons did not enjoy commercial success as a solo artist during his short life, and that it was Emmylou Harris who took his sound to a wider audience with the […]

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

July 2, 2026 0

It would be strange to start things off by actually introducing Lucinda Williams, so let’s begin with a justification instead: Williams has been at it since her 1979 debut Ramblin’ Woman, though she only truly broke […]

artwork for Adam Beattie album "Home Fires Burning"

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

July 2, 2026 0

The hero’s journey echoed in the experiences of an everyman. It might be an exaggeration to say there are as many types of songwriters as there are songwriters, but then again, it might not. As well […]

Year: 2018

Lukas Nelson and the Promise of the Real + The Americans, The Garage, London, 10th July 2018

Album premiere: Simon Patrick Kerr “Doldrums”

Bert Jansch restrospective for October release

Jim James “Uniform Distortion” (ATO, 2018)

Video: Frontperson “Tick-Tock (Frontrunner)”

Video Interview: Rodney Crowell on why “Then Again” is better late than never

Essentials: The Top 10 Lucinda Williams Ballads

Adam Beattie “Home Fires Burning”

Book Review: Amy Speace “To The Performer, The Singer–Songwriter’s Handbook”

Juana Everett “Past Lives in California”