2018 – Page 3 – Americana UK

Luke Sital-Singh “Love is Hard Enough Without the Winter” – Listen

December 20, 2018 Jonathan Aird 0

There’s nothing saccharine about the sentiment in this song from Luke Sital-Singh, which is as cold and bleak as the winter he’s proposing to reject. It touches directly on the rough edges in any relationship, the […]

Americana UK writers pick their albums of 2018

December 20, 2018 Mark Whitfield 0

Once upon a time we used to do a “Top 10” list of our favourite stuff from the last year, but we used to all fall out, on several occasions it came to blows and three […]

Kaia Kater “Grenades” (Smithsonian Folkways, 2019)

December 20, 2018 Graham McCusker 0

‘Grenades,’ the excellent second record from Grenadian-Canadian Kaia Kater comes with an intriguing back story. The singer-songwriter decided to explore her father’s Grenadian roots and it sets an interesting platform upon which the record is built. Having […]

Annie Oakley “Words We Mean” (Horton Records, 2018)

December 20, 2018 David Stevenson 0

Annie Oakley are a three-piece acoustic trio from Oklahoma City and ‘Words We Mean’ is the group’s first full length album and the culmination of many years of writing and playing together – the chemistry between […]

Video: Allison Lupton “The Eve Of Christmas Day”

December 20, 2018 Jeremy Searle 0

Well, it is that time of year so here’s an excellent song from Allison Lupton, aided and abetted by UK folk stars The Young ‘Uns, Craig Werth and the Canterbury Brass. It’s rather lovely and never […]

Stamping on the passion: Why AI written PR is a bad thing for music

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If a music writer opens ten press releases this month, they’ll spot something odd. They all sound like the same person wrote them. Not because the artists share a publicist, or because there’s a house style […]

Carla Gover and Friends “Williams Branch is Hard to Find”

September 21, 2026 0

A cycle of Appalachian folk songs from writer and activist Si Kahn, subtitled Songs for Strong Kentucky Women The subtitle for this album is “Si Kahn’s Songs for Strong Kentucky Women”. Si Kahn is one of […]

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For the Sake of the Song: Grateful Dead “High Time”