2018 – Page 260 – Americana UK

Video: The Super Saturated Sugar Strings “Precipice”

March 5, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

A new band for this site, this is Alaska’s Super Saturated Sugar Strings. Their latest album All Their Many Miles will be available in the UK soon. Their somewhat orchestral folk-pop/Americana does’t really sound like anyone […]

No Dry Country “Fifteen Piece Band” – Listen

March 2, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

No Dry Country, or NDC as they sometimes go by, may have started out as a covers band, but nine years on from forming they’ve honed their own style and put out a few releases with […]

CMA elects rabid Republican to board – and then changes its mind

March 2, 2018 Mark Whitfield 6

An interesting tale over the last couple of days almost made for the 24-hour news cycle. On Tuesday, the philanthropic arm of the Country Music Association announced the election of former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee to its board […]

Ady Johnson “London Songs” (Independent, 2018)

March 2, 2018 David Cowling 0

It isn’t often that a record reminds the listener of Ray Davies, Mark Linkous and Tom Waits, as this one does. It has the lyrical sensibility of Davies, the clatter and oomph of Waits at his […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Marty Robbins “Big Iron”

March 2, 2018 Paul Villers 1

Lately we were horrified to find that Americana-UK Towers had been visited by a host of unwanted visitors. In short we had a vermin problem. Rats. Big ones. Big, horrible nasty, sharp teethed Johnnies with scaly […]