March 2019 – Page 9 – Americana UK

Love Trap “Rosie” (Wild Honey Records, 2019)

March 22, 2019 David Stevenson 0

Love Trap from Turin, Italy are a super-duo of sorts formed by Stefano Isaia and Marco Spigariol from the remnants of a number of different groups (Movie Star Junkies, Lame and Krano to name a few) […]

Video: David Rodriguez “The Ballad Of The Snow Leopard And The Tanqueray Cowboy”

March 22, 2019 Jeremy Searle 1

For the retro slot this week we have the late David Rodriguez, a man who should be better known, and a great song perhaps best known for being covered by Lyle Lovett on ‘Step Inside This […]

J.S. Ondara “Tales of America” (Verve, 2019)

March 21, 2019 Andrew Frolish 0

The grand but elusive idea of the ‘American Dream’ is one of the USA’s gifts to the world. J.S. Ondara is, perhaps, the very personification of this ideal but his darkly poetic lyrics and tender confessionals […]

Grain Electric, The Peer Hat, Manchester, 16th March 2019

March 21, 2019 Clint West 1

Stuart Warburton and Jamie Fildes previously worked together in the 1980s as members of the excellent Rhythmaires. When that band broke up, each went their separate ways; Fildes enjoying some minor success with the band Buchanan […]

Robert Earl Keen showcases two new songs – Listen

March 21, 2019 Mark Whitfield 0

Texas troubadour Robert Earl Keen recorded tracks for an LR Baggs acoustic session at Soundcheck in Nashville earlier this week, and in doing so premiered two previously unreleased ballads, ‘The Unknown Fighter’ and ‘Silver Spurs and […]