2018 – Page 298 – Americana UK

Loose Records to celebrate 20 years at the AMAUK conference

January 19, 2018 Mark Whitfield 1

Way back in 2001 when I first started Americana UK on a shoestring budget (not even a shoestring to be fair, it was zero) one of the first labels to kindly start sending us through stuff […]

The Hanging Stars “Songs For Somewhere Else” (Crimson Crow, 2018)

January 19, 2018 David Cowling 0

THS are carving out a nice niche for themselves. They sit somewhere between the Broken Family Band and the Rockingbirds with a dash of psychedelic hot sauce. At their most esoteric they are able to combine […]

Trailhead “Keep Walking” (Requa Records, 2018)

January 19, 2018 Muff Fitzgerald 0

Never go walking with The Proclaimers – it’s really tiring! But if you do fancy trekking 500 miles or so, according to Lonely Planet, the sure-fire way to avoid blisters whilst walking the Camino de Santiago […]

Pick of the Political Pops: Bill Munroe and His Bluegrass Boys “I’m Working On A Building”

January 19, 2018 Paul Villers 1

It’s a helluva time to be working on any kind of building if you happen to be employed by a corporate construction behemoth either directly or subcontractually, we’d have thought. The sprawling pile that is Americana-UK […]

Track premiere: Eugene Tyler Band “Training”

January 19, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Eugene Tyler Band’s new album “Young Randy” is out today on Cold Folks Home Records, and they’ve shared their new single “Training” from it with us which has some nice intense guitar interplay that recalls the Milk Carton […]