April 2019 – Page 27 – Americana UK

Video Premiere: Martha Scanlan “Las Cruces”

April 2, 2019 Jeremy Searle 1

Here’s a lovely song from Martha Scanlan, taken from her latest album ‘The River And The Light’, which, in her eloquent words, “is tied to currents, almost like human stories told by rivers, different points on […]

Jerry Leger and the Situation return to the UK

April 1, 2019 Mark Underwood 0

Following a successful first tour of Europe last year, Canadian Jerry Leger returns to the UK for a series of shows with Dan Mock on bass and Kyle Sullivan on drums – both players in Jerry’s band, […]

The Maureens “Something in the Air” (Meritorio Records, 2019)

April 1, 2019 Mike Elliott 0

The Maureens’ third album, ‘Something in the Air,’ sharpens this four-piece from Utrecht, the Netherlands’ obsession with jangle-pop to a fine sepia-toned point. Guitars ring, vocals tightly meld, choruses stick to the ears like aural confections. […]

What Is This Americana Thing Anyway…?

April 1, 2019 Paul Villers 0

The next instalment of our regular feature sees serial funster Rick Bayles tells us what floats his boat and aims to make lots of new friends with his views on Neil Young:

Larry ‘Ratso’ Sloman “Stubborn Heart” (Lucky Number Music, 2019)

April 1, 2019 Clint West 0

“Larry ‘Ratso’ Sloman is a Jewish New York author. Readers here might be familiar with his account of the 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue ‘On the Road with Bob Dylan.’ Sloman also wrote ‘Reefer Madness,’ a social history of […]