2018 – Page 245 – Americana UK

Knight & Spiers “The Cuckoo” – Listen

March 19, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

A set of tunes from Peter Knight and John Spiers based around the traditional songs and tunes ‘The Cuckoo song / The Cuckoo’s Nest / The Cuckoo’s Nest (Longborough Morris)’. It’s a masterly medley that moves […]

Beams “Teach Me To Love” (Independent, 2018)

March 19, 2018 Peter Churchill 0

Toronto based band Beams, are, by their own, admission, a hard band to define musically. The songs are led by the vocals and banjo of Anna Mernieks and, while the banjo is ever present and brings […]

Things are changing for Jerry Leger – first UK tour next month

March 19, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Canadian songsmith Jerry leger, a man who’s been described as “managing to channel the youthful vigour of Bob Dylan, John Lennon, Neil Young and Rick Danko, sometimes all within the same song” is set to release ‘Things […]

Lloyd Cole, De La Warr Pavillion, Bexhill on Sea, 4th March 2018

March 19, 2018 Rick Bayles 4

Lloyd Cole takes to the stage, looking more like a hip geography teacher than the brooding rock star of his youth, and launches straight into ‘Patience’, to the obvious approval of the capacity crowd at the […]

Video: Elijah Ocean “Down this Road”

March 19, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

There’s a nice Laurel Canyon/Tom Petty vibe to the new single from LA singer-songwriter Elijah Ocean. We like it.

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

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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