2018 – Page 150 – Americana UK

Various Artists “Restoration” (Universal Music Nashville, 2018)

July 3, 2018 Rick Bayles 0

Now this is a really interesting album. To give it its full title it is ‘Restoration: Reimagining the Songs of Elton John and Bernie Taupin’ and it does exactly that. Sixteen different acts from a country […]

Paul Brady and Andy Irvine to play seminal Andy Irvine/Paul Brady.

July 3, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

The Barbican in London have announced a special performance in their Autumn schedules by Paul Brady and Andy Irvine of their groundbreaking album ‘Andy Irvine / Paul Brady’. Released after the duo formed in the wake […]

Arms Akimbo “Devil” – Listen

July 3, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

This is not the religious inspired song you might imagine, it’s more a critique by Arms Akimbo of Los Angeles – their love/hate with that fine/awful city and how they don’t much appreciate/like at all the […]

Lachlan Bryan and The Wildes + The Weeping Willows, MacSorleys, Glasgow, 30th June 2018

July 3, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

A crowded pub in Glasgow on a swelteringly hot Saturday night proved to be no challenge to Australia’s Lachlan Bryan who, with a four piece version of The Wildes behind him, performed a set of songs […]

Video: Passenger “Runaway”

July 3, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

This is the title track from Passenger’s new album, due out on August 31st. It’s very Americana and very good. We like it.

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 1

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