2018 – Page 238 – Americana UK

Vissia “Placeholder” (Hurry Hard Records, 2017)

March 26, 2018 Paul Kerr 4

From Alberta Canada, Vissia is singer songwriter Alex Vissia who here offers us nine songs born from experience, “This album is a collection of songs, each holding a place in my experiential past. Like any memory, […]

Video: Winnebago “Cheating on Your Heart”

March 26, 2018 Jeremy Searle 5

Yet more excellent British Americana from a band new to this site, Winnebago hail from Manchester and this will appear on an upcoming single. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DpKXGfsWh0E&app=desktop

Lucinda, Steve, Dwight – it’s the LSD tour!

March 23, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Have a good weekend dear readers whatever you get up to (my weekend is set). News from RS Country today of a tour that’d be worth remortgaging your house to go and see (since there are […]

Dan Hartland “Great Novels” (Independent, 2018)

March 23, 2018 Michael Farley 0

It’s always good to come across homegrown talent which is what is firmly on show here with the first full length record from Dan Hartland. Intelligent lyrics, hummable melodies and some rather fancy top notch guitar […]

Brady Harris Band “NoHo Calling” (Independent, 2018)

March 23, 2018 Keith Hargreaves 0

Opening with the Devoesque ‘Let’s Live’ which is all new wave rhythms and hand claps with catchy choruses, you think you have a handle on The Brady Harris band and their new platter ‘NOHO Calling’ (that’s […]

Something for the weekend: Chicago “Just You ‘N’ Me”

June 26, 2026 2

Well that’s it from us for this week. It’s PAYDAY for many people and if you’re dreamimg of a future when you can actually go out the of house without a wall of unbearable heat hitting […]

Tift Merritt “Sugar”

June 26, 2026 0

Merritt returns with a beautifully sung meditation on love, work and the sweetness hidden in ordinary lives. After almost a decade away from releasing new albums, Tift Merritt returns with a collection of songs that feels […]

Classic Clips: Lynyrd Skynyrd “Call Me The Breeze” – Old Grey Whistle Test, London, 1975

June 26, 2026 0

Somewhere I have a cassette tape of this session, recorded from the TV using the tiny built-in audio mic on my radio cassette player; very low tech. The recording was further embellished with random sneezes from […]

Year: 2018