2018 – Page 254 – Americana UK

Texas legend Dale Watson brings the honky tonk back to the UK

March 9, 2018 Paul Kerr 0

Dale Watson, honky-tonk hero and country music maverick, is coming to the UK for a short 4 tour date next week. A member of the Austin Music Hall of Fame, Dale has flown the flag for classic […]

Knight & Spiers, Junction 2, Cambridge, 6th March 2018

March 8, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

The last gig of the City Roots Festival was, fittingly enough, the folkiest gig of the festival. Sure, there had been the likes of Sam Kelley with his mixture of new and re-arranged traditional songs, but […]

The Lost Brothers “Halfway Towards A Healing” (Bird Dog Records 2018)

March 8, 2018 Dave Clarke 1

Here are two singer/songwriters from Ireland, Oisin Leech and Mark McCausland, now based in Liverpool. This is their fifth album, produced and recorded by Howe Gelb and Gabriel Sullivan (of Giant Sand fame) at the Dust […]

Leah Abramson “Songs For A Lost Pod” (Headless Owl Records, 2018)

March 8, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

In a major departure from her usual folk-pop, Leah Abramson’s latest is a somewhat experimental multi-media project. Not the most promising opening sentence to be sure but the results, while mixed, are sometimes inspiring and on […]

Hugh Christopher Brown “Pacem” (Wolfe Island Records, 2017)

March 8, 2018 David Cowling 0

There’s a lot about this record that reminds me of Van Morrison, the deep spirituality and the fluid jazz notes being the foremost. Brown has a range of talents and founded a program to introduce music […]